Jane Braxton Little
Jane Braxton Little writes about condors and climate change, forests, phibs and Basque aspen art for a variety of national publications that run the gamut from Audubon to Utne. When not following scientists around on Pacific islands or in the remote backcountry of Tanzania, she writes from a second-floor office in a century-old building in California's Sierra Nevada. Jane Braxton Little's blog
Short-tailed albatross chick – a two-time survivor. Photo: Pete Leary/FWS biologist
Wisdom survived the tsunami. So did her chick. These Laysan albatross at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge are beacons of hope on an otherwise bleak horizon following the devastation wreaked by a 9.0 earthquake and the waves it unleashed March 11.
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All spring it's been snowing in California’s Sierra Nevada -- a steady onslaught of storms dumping foot upon foot of fresh powder on the peaks. Local weathermen and state water officials are hailing the late-season squalls as a boon to the state's water supply. They don't quite end the three-year statewide drought, the experts say, but they bring this year's statewide snowpack to right around normal.
Welcome as they may be, the spring storms are just a temporary break in a weather pattern that, without attention, will become a water crisis.
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