Take a stroll through a desert in western North America, and you might spot a tiny hopping rodent with enormous ears. Kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice are well-adapted for life in dry habitats, but ...

Rodents are usually stereotyped as furtive, gnawing, crop and foodstuff spoiling, small mammals with few redeeming qualities, and I would wager, if asked to describe a mouse, many people’s model would ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...