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The oxymoronic Toyota Prius?
The Toyota Prius, called Prii collectively, have been a topic of great interest and confusion to me since I first read about them in 2003. Branded a green and economical car, people flocked to purchase...
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Plants racing the climate
The world is changing. The climate is changing. Whilst the world’s climate has altered repeatedly and drastically since it formed, its current rate is faster than anything we have observed in the last...
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Is it natural to change timing of natural events ?
Climate change is a ‘heated’ issue at the moment and we all now know that average temperatures have already risen roughly by 1° and are predicted to rise more by up to 6° by the end of this century....
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Pesky pesticides
An article published online yesterday by the Guardian (a UK newspaper) stated that a major component of slug poison has been found in one in eight of England and Wales’ drinking water sources. The...
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A couple of updates
I wrote a couple of bits across the last year related to worrying news stories; this last fortnight has seen further happenings in both stories, and I’ve been a lazy bugger writing-wise, so I’ve done a...
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Mammoth Steppes
Many people know about the large beasts that wandered Europe and Asia during the last ice-age (Pleistocene megafauna to you, natch), but few realise that these animals were the architects and...
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Tiny, wimpy, scorpions
Scorpions are badass, we all know that. With two mean pincers at the front to hold you in place with, before then inflicting you with their venomous sting; these small creatures are the stuff of some...
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Forestry as an example of long term thinking and a shift to a more...
Forestry by its very nature forces us to think about our environment and our society over much longer time periods than we are accustomed to. As with many of our industries and practices, we as a...
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‘Cannibal rats’ would actually nosh on mice
News outlets went berserk a fortnight ago (hey, this still counts as ‘topical’, right?) when a story went viral on the possibility of a ghost ship of cannibal rats crashing into the UK’s coast. The...
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Rhinos, their impacts on savannah and the ghosts of ancient poos
Photos of mutilated rhino corpses have become all too familiar to conservationists lately. Sadly Rhino horn has been making a comeback on the east-Asian black market, mainly fuelled by the myth that it...
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Fragmented nature
When you think of nature, what is it that comes to mind? For most westerners it could be epic, unspoilt, wild beauty. For those of a slightly more pessimistic mindset it may be something less idyllic,...
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