by Susan | Apr 5, 2011 | Chemicals in the Environment, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Environmental Health, How You Can Help, Uncategorized
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. —Albert Einstein* Did you know that honey bees are vanishing worldwide? Like frogs,...
by Susan | Mar 23, 2011 | Earth Day, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Teaching Kids about Frogs, Uncategorized
It’s finally Spring, and in our part of the world, we’re ecstatic. We’ve had a rough winter—we had snow and ice on our city streets every day for about 40 days in a row! The crocuses are blooming in my backyard, and outside the city, frogs are springing to life. In a...
by Susan | Mar 9, 2011 | Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Meet the Frogs, Uncategorized
We never stop being amazed by how amphibians are able to survive in the harshest environments. The Shovel-Nosed Chamber frog (Leptodactylus bufonius), for example, lives in the dry subtropical or tropical shrublands or grasslands of Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and...
by Susan | Mar 3, 2011 | Earth Day, frog calls, Frog posters, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Read about Frogs, Uncategorized
Now that it’s March, it’s almost time for the peepers to usher in spring! Renowned science writer Carl Safina describes spring peepers so beautifully in his new book The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. I enjoy reading anything...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Oscars are coming on Sunday, and one of the movies up for best documentary, Gasland, has a scene in which a woman goes down to her local creek and discovers that after fracking wells had been dug on her land, animals, including rabbits, birds, frogs, began dying....
by Susan | Feb 18, 2011 | Animal Die-Offs 2011, Chemicals in the Environment, Environmental Health, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, we wrote a post about the unusual mass die-offs of animals that have been occurring since the beginning of this year. While writing this post, we had to wade through a lot of strange stories to try and get to the truth, including a few conspiracy...
