Floristic Inventory of Las Orquideas National Park, Columbia

For a look at preliminary results from Assistant Curator, Paola Pedraza, Ph.D. floristic inventory of  Las Orquideas National Park in Columbia, if you can read Spanish, check out the article in El Colombiano.

photo by: Giovanny Giraldo

This article in the Christian Science Monitor is easier for English speakers:

"A band of humid rainforest hugs Colombia’s Pacific coast, isolated from the rest of South America by the formidable Andes mountain range. Known as the Chocó biogeographic region, it is a treasure trove of biodiversity. And Las Orquídeas National Park, straddling the border between the rainforest and the mountains, is like a jewel in the crown. Despite the biological bounty of Las Orquídeas, much of it remains unexplored."

Windows 7 Won't Refresh - How to fix

If your Windows 7 Explorer or Desktop does not refresh when you move or create files, here is a helpful trick I learned on The Windows Club.

Go to the Start Button and type "regedit" in the field that says Search programs and files. Then double-click on regedit under programs to open your Registry Editor.

This is what the Registry Editor looks like.

Press the "Ctrl" key and the letter "F" key at the same time to open the Find dialog box. In the "Find what" field, type "dontrefresh" and press the "Find Next" button.

Your Find result will probably look something like this. Notice that "Dontrefresh" has a value of 1. Double-click on "Dontrefresh" to open an editor.

In the editor dialog, change the 1 to 0 and press the "OK" button.

You will now see that "Dontrefresh" has a value of 0. You can now close the Registry Editor and your computer should refresh as you work.

Climate Change Is Here - And It's Gonna Cost Us

Climate scientists who appeared Wednesday morning before a Senate committee hearing on climate change and extreme weather impacts had stark warnings for the lawmakers: climate change is here, climate change is man-made, and climate change is going to cost us big time.   Common Dreams

"Understanding the role of climate change in the risk of extremes is one of the most active areas of climate science," says Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member and climate scientist at Stanford University Dr. Christopher Fields.

According to Fields, "As a result of rapid progress over the last few years, it is now feasible to quantify the way that climate change alters the risk of certain events or series of events." - Read more