ZEALANDIA
In February 2021, I wrote a blog about the “discovery” of Zealandia, the eighth continent that many had predicted to exist, but nobody had found. …
SEA SPONGES IN ZANZIBAR
Sea Sponges in Zanzibar struck me as a story that should have wider circulation. It is, at the same time, heart-warming, topical, and an indication …
THE BULLET
The Bullet is, debatably, one of the world’s most enduring manufactured products. With that statement, you may well think I am talking about the projectile …
STRANGE CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
There are many implications and strange consequences of climate change that we haven’t even begun to contemplate yet, and this story of crocodiles and hippos …
WAR OVER WATER
I have written several blogs suggesting “war over water” will be the next world war. We seem to have almost daily examples in our news …
BINDESHWAR PATHAK
The death of Bindeshwar Pathak this month has highlighted the enormous change he brought in an on-going fight to bring India’s sanitation habits into the …
SAVE THE VULTURES
Save the vultures may not be as appealing a slogan as save the elephants, save the blue whales, or save the pandas, but it may …
RESURRECTION OF WIND POWER
I have written a couple of blogs on the resurrection of wind power as a method of powering cargo ships of the future. It seems …
HOLLOWAYS
In my mind, the name Holloway / Holloways had always meant the person who played Eliza Doolittle’s father in My Fair Lady, Stanley Holloway, or …
SAILING CARGO SHIPS
I wrote a blog a while ago about sailing cargo ships; the possibility of re-inventing sail as a method of reducing the carbon footprint of …