Death In The Morning.
October in the New Forest in Southern England is the time of the fallow deer rut and I thought this might be a good time to consider an unusual event…
DAS EMAS. BRAZIL.
Potoo: The Bird That Was Famous for 15 Seconds, but Wasn’t Really Bothered.
The Story of a Picture. The writer Lawrence Durrell once told his younger brother Gerald, that an interesting experience should never be wasted and should always find its way into…
COVID-19. Simple Arithmetic and ‘The Economy First Delusion’. PART 2.
I'd like to think that the most democratic countries have been the best at controlling COVID-19, but this would not be true, although there is no doubt that China did…
COVID-19. Simple Arithmetic and the ‘Economy First’ Delusion.
Although most of us now have some idea of how to behave in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, few of us understand how 'the thing' really operates, but we…
A Brief History and Natural History of Coronavirus and its journey to Pandemic.
Is the Coronavirus emergency a dry run for how climate change will be dealt with in the not too distant future? If that is the case there is cause for…
Have 11,000 Scientist Got it Wrong on Climate Change? And the Problem of Melting Ice.
Science and Its Relationship to Climate Change: On the 40th Anniversary of the first World Climate Change Conference (Geneva 1979), a statement was published in the Journal of Bioscience, signed…
California Dreaming or Just Another Nightmare? Yosemite and the Giant Redwoods.
When my children were young, we took them on a road trip to California, driving the Pacific Highway from Los Angles to San Francisco before going east to visit Yosemite…
Time Is Running Out for the Old Growth Forests of the Pacific North West.
It is commonplace for leaders in tropical regions to receive criticism for their inability to conserve natural forests, but in northern temperate regions politicians have not been made so directly…
A walk on the Wild Side – Smuggler’s Cove.
I can't remember exactly how many smuggler's coves I've visited, but it's a lot - their appeal is irresistible. In the Caribbean they are perhaps at their most romantic; whilst…
The Skookumchuck Narrows – Going With the Flow on The Sunshine Coast.
My daughter thought that her mother and I could do with a break from the human clutter of British Columbia's Lower Mainland, and kindly booked us accommodation for three nights…