APTOS — Christian Schwarz is speed-walking through the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park when he suddenly stops and reaches into a clump of brush to pull out something that looks wonderfully familiar.

Christian Schwarz’s introduction to mycology, the study of fungi, fittingly began with a field guide his brother received for Christmas one year. The pair hiked into the woods above Santa Cruz after a ...

"Probably no-one in Europe knows Bosnia-Hercegovina better," Paddy Ashdown has said of his replacement as high representative of the international community there, Christian Schwarz-Schilling. The ...

For Christian Schwarz, the natural world is like oxygen. He breathes in its wonders and can’t imagine life without it. Schwarz is fascinated by every living thing around him, from mushrooms and moths ...

Christian Schwarz-Schilling, the international community's new High Representative in Bosnia (file photo) (epa) 31 January 2006 -- German diplomat Christian Schwarz-Schilling today takes over as the ...

Christian Schwarz-Schilling, the international community's High Representative in Bosnia. (file photo) (epa) 30 January 2006 -- The new international administrator in Bosnia, Christian ...

Christian Schwarz-Schilling (file photo) (official website) Christian Schwarz-Schilling served as an international mediator in Bosnia-Herzegovina for nearly a decade and is now Germany's candidate to ...