Roads and human egos have depleted the U.S. wilderness. The EarthScholars coax us back out of doors, to consider the plants, animals and perspective living there. Thank you, Jim and Renee. The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and the Earth, between […]
Without detailed geological information about Block 252 in the Gulf and the chemistry of dispersants that have already been thrown into the water, how can we expect to clean up the coastal wetlands? EarthScholars™ Research Group This past spring we had the chance to see the so-called Impossible Black Tulip of map collecting — the […]
Botanical Gardens, It’s Time to Make Our Case for Plant Research James Wandersee and Renee Clary see the economics of botanical science changing. For plant research programs to survive within botanical gardens, they may need to show profits and/or make the benefits of their discoveries better known. EarthScholars™ Research Group A recent Human Flower Project […]
Who was ‘Wm Helis’ and why did he rate a flower arrangement as big as a catamaran? Senior New Orleans readers (may we have some!) and historians of the U.S. petrochemical industry perhaps know the name ‘William Helis.’ We did not, until encountering this photo in the Louisiana State Museum’s fabulous photo archive—an immense flower […]