Stoker5 minCherry Up!A hundred years is old for a cherry tree, especially in a Victorian suburban garden. This summer it looked sick, lost its leaves...
Dr. Mark Nicholson7 minCabbages, cabbage trees and the dwindling web of life“The Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles.” The quote above is often misquoted, as is the attribution...
Richard Pooley7 minWestern animal sentimentalism is causing the destruction of African wildlifeIn the last issue of Only Connect, I wondered whether the campaign in the West to ban trophy hunting might result in precisely the opposite
Stoker6 minWhat divides Russia and China? “One of the most formidable rivers on Earth” “Travel broadens the mind” you must have been told many times. But does it? In the twenty first century, does it? It can certainly be fasci
Dr. Mark Nicholson1 minBeyond the tipping point: the Runaway Greenhouse EffectWhen did you last think about Venus? Not in blue jeans, not Williams, not the debrachiated de Milo. No, I mean the planet.