The first land animals appeared on Earth about 350 million years ago but the runway for creatures of our kind to take off was bumpy. Long before that, the first …
The BBC Science News website published a piece last night about extreme weather events where former Met Office chief scientist Prof Dame Julia Slingo said ‘the IPCC (climate computer) models …
Animals don’t compete with humans and successful animals don’t compete with each other. Competition theory may be one of ecology’s failures. It’s not that it’s incorrect. It describes one mechanism …
Deep sea mining is an ocean climate catastrophe because of the release of thousands of years of ecosystem-disrupting chemicals into the oceans. Would you be surprised if I told you, …
Why are Cat Ba Langurs important and why should we care if this species goes extinct? No wildlife exists unless its ancestors lived in harmony with their surroundings for millions …
Nature-based solutions are messy. You already know this … just look at a building site. Humans are animals and like every other creature on the planet, it’s in our nature …
What effect does stress have on animals? More than you can imagine. Recently, scientists have started to identify the major cause of stress in animals and what they’ve discovered might …
The annals of conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create biodiversity, which is the mechanism that creates a habitable planet …
There are many parallels I can draw between how animals behave and how human economics, marketing and politics work. Seth Godin’s book ‘The Dip’ explains how to be good animals. …
Here I pick out three key ways wildlife will save our food and climate systems. The first thing to understand about carbon is that storage is only one part of …
