Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
