Residents of the Biosphere

Many thanks to David Quammen for writing The Song of The Dodo, which has…

I’ve been reading Song of the Dodo by David Quammen, a book about the biodiversity of islands and how this translates to the national park system. It is a really excellent piece of…

De volta para o futuro, ecologicamente falando

“Now you may look to the past the only way foward.”

Science Camp: The Alvarez Hypothesis

Week Two: A Distrust of Received Wisdom

As a kid I had, as New Scientist would call it, a “distrust of received wisdom.” In early school I sat at the back of classrooms quietly sceptical, watching teacher after…

The race to bring back the mammoth

What if extinction didn’t mean the end?
It’s not a new idea. In fact, the concept of de-extinction has been used as a plot point for many books and blockbuster films, including the Jurassic Park franchise. But is it really possible to bring a species back from the dead…

Will Human Progress Doom Us All?

I am often reminded of the terrible price we and the Earth have paid for what we call in perfunctory…