Animal conservation is a hot topic these days. There’s no doubt about it, environmental and human influences have had a horrific impact on the world’s wildlife population. And if we don’t start to conserve wildlife now, it may soon be…
Earth Day is coming! (Well, it’s an annual event – it’s always coming, to be fair). And we thought it might be nice to see what we can all do to celebrate that fact and make our planet a nicer…
A piece of plastic less than five millimetres across is a piece of microplastic and the average person is creating and worse, consuming, millions possibly billions of these pieces of plastic everyday. We don’t know the full list of health…
Did you know that every year people gather to celebrate World Environment Day? And that it has been going on since 1974 when it was first carried out in Spokane in the United States? But what is World Environment Day…
Food waste doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In a world where everyone has food security and where food production is not in itself wasteful we could all compost much of our food waste and use it to produce…
Gaia is another name for Mother Earth. The idea of a Gaia Principle was first proposed by the scientists Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock. The mainstream scientific community attacked them as charlatans and quacks but now their theories are widely…
If there’s anything that we love more on a Friday night after work than a cold glass of chardonnay, we’re not sure what it is. And it is wine that always brings corks to our minds. So, last time we…
Elizabeth Kolbert won a Pullitzer Prize for her book “The Sixth Extinction.” Now she returns for a deep look at the future humanity is creating for itself. She tours the planet to talk to biologists about what they’re observing and…