Here’s my book review of Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert. Before I read it, I admit to some trepidation. I often avoid books that describe portents for our …
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How do animals make our planet liveable?
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 …
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 …
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Nature-based solutions are messy and unpredictable but it’s okay
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 conservation science are filled with graphs of species decline but how long does it take for successful wildlife recovery? It’s easy to measure the negative impact we’ve …
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 …
What happens when science meets the sci-fi urges of tech-billionaires? We could be about to find out and the results aren’t likely to be good for humanity. Geo-engineering world climate …