CRETACEOUS CAPITALISM
Cretaceous capitalism sounds like a somewhat preposterous combination of words, but trade in fossils, particularly massive ones, is making that word-combination more real. In 2020, …
MYRIAD OF WATERWAYS
The City of London has a myriad of waterways that empty into the River Thames. Old maps show a skein of rivers, streams, and brooks …
FRANKENSTEIN’S GARDEN
Frankenstein’s garden is not something most of us have ever heard of, let alone thought about, but the concept arose about the same time as …
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
We have all heard about how climate change and pollution are affecting our oceans but rising ocean acidification has rarely been part of those discussions: …
HUMANITY IS NOT SUSTAINABLE
“Humanity is not sustainable” sounds like an alarmist, perhaps environmental fanatical, statement. In some ways that is totally true, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. …
POLLINATORS
Bees, birds and bats, and other similar pollinators, affect 35% of the world’s crop production. They also increase the yield of 87 leading food crops …
SPACE ROCKS
Space Rocks. An attack on planet Earth conjures up images of Martians, alien empires such as those in the film “Independence Day”, and a whole …
SWAMPED BY ENGLISH
Swamped by English could be an excerpt from British colonial history or, maybe, a report sent back from the Spanish Armada after Sir Francis Drake …
A 24-7 OPERATION
Fishing in international waters has become a 24-7 operation. A single country has accounted for about 80 percent of the fishing in the international waters …
USED PLASTIC
Getting rid of used plastic has been on the top of many researchers’ dreams for quite some time now. Huge rafts of plastic circulating in …