My life as an elephant researcher
6:00 am – The day starts in STEP’s research camp with hot, strong coffee and fresh chapati prepared by Jose, our camp cook. Preparations of the equipment needed for fieldwork […]
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Our Trees – A British Charter
Charter for Trees, Woods and People Fifty organisations including the Forest Stewardship Council, National Trust, RSPB and WWF are calling for people in the UK to submit an anecdote, memory […]
Penguins struggling to find food in Southern Africa
A study by researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Cape Town has shown that endangered African penguin populations have dramatically declined due climate change and overfishing. […]
New monuments added to Obama’s legacy
President Obama has added two new national monuments in Utah and Nevada. These places are sacred tribal sites. In Obama’s time in office, he has created 29 national monuments, encompassing […]
The Trembling Giant – 80,000 year old aspen
The story is the same everywhere you look: we are losing our trees, be them ancient, tropical, deciduous, coniferous and home to so much of life on our planet. Is […]
Norway set to cull two thirds of its wolf population
In a controversial plan, Norway is set to cull more than two-thirds of its remaining wolves due to apparent harm inflicted on sheep flocks by the predators. The wolf population in […]
The Blob: Chaos In The Pacific
What happens when a warm waters invade the Pacific? Chaos. An expanse of unusually warm water in the northern Pacific Ocean had a profound effect upon marine animals from Mexico […]
Science and Music -Ludovico Einaudi – “Elegy for the Arctic”
Ludovico Einaudi performed a breathtakingly haunting piece, ‘Elegy for the Arctic’ to highlight the destruction of ice on the pole due to climate change. With a grand piano on a floating […]
New World Heritage Sites Declared
The World Heritage Committee yesterday added, after great deliberation, nine new World Heritage sites to the list of some 1,000 places of “outstanding universal value to humanity.” The new additions include […]
Land Sharing Or Land Sparing? Reconciling Agriculture and Biodiversity
Agriculture and biodiversity are becoming increasingly hard to reconcile with the growing world population. It has been estimated that food production may need to double by 2050 to feed the global […]
