Mar 04 2016

Why Foodies Must Also be Environmentalists

By Lyndal Cairns

Foodies and environmentalists don’t always get along. Environmentalists make compromises daily for sustainability. Foodies are known for being single-minded and ruthless in their search for the perfect meal. But I argue: If you love food, you must appreciate and respect the environment in which it was grown. And that means you have to make green…

Oct 12 2014

Meet the Tiny Desert Slime that Holds our Topsoil Together. For Now.

By Lyndal Cairns

If your eyes were microscopes and you had really good sunblock, you could lie down in the Arizona Desert and watch tiny microbes build colonies of millions around you. These greeblies, called cyanobacteria, colonize the very top layer of soil and need little more than sunshine to survive. In their wake, they leave a trail…