Posts by Carol Hunter
UN Bans Caviar Trade
After two decades of plummeting numbers, Caspian Sea sturgeon will finally get a reprieve from the pressures of overfishing.
The Scoop on Transit
On an average weekday, BART is used for over 306,000 trips, over 90 million trips a year, 60,000 more trips than ten years ago.
Farming for Black Gold
Can California sturgeon farms help preserve a species half a world away?
The Deep Next Door
The giant gelatinous predator moves silently through cold, dark waters, propelled by a pair of expanding and contracting swimming bells. Its rope-like body is actually a colony of almost a thousand individual subsections, each performing a specific task.
The Next Revolution
On thousands of urban gardens in Cuba, necessity has mothered a successful mix of organic methods, market strategies, and good eating.











