A global outlook on urbanisation
Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) have created an interactive version of the report City Biodiversity Outlook 1 which was launched at the CBD COP in Hyderabad in 2012. With a video […]
Category Archives: Science
Evidence and observation
Wake of the Endeavour – NEW Revised Edition
NEW REVISED EDITION Thanks for all the support from my readers. Following the positive feedback I have released a revised edition of Wake of the Endeavour. Join me in an […]
Citizens, mobile coms and bio-diverse engagement coming of age
Somewhat more than a decade ago in 2000 I sat with my webdesign team, two education colleagues and a research scientist hatching a pioneering web application – Walking with woodlice. […]
Pressures on pollinators, responses and action
The threat of the collapse in pollinating insect populations is confirmed as a worldwide problem according to the latest meta-review of research literature. Threats to an ecosystem service: Pressures on […]
On the Origin of Environmentalism by means of Biological Diversity
A hundred years after his death Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) is usually remembered, if at all, as the other person who alongside Darwin discovered evolution’s mechanism Natural Selection. The truth […]
The State of Natural Capital
In 2012, as part of its policy on environment, the UK Government established a group of economists to feed information to HMS Treasury on the state of UK’s ‘natural wealth’. […]
Westminster: Environment Audit Committee stings like a bee
“More research is needed to monitor pollinator populations and establish the impact that particular pesticides are having, but Defra must not use this as an excuse to avoid urgent precautionary […]
Lost tribes or global stewards?
‘At the heart of biodiversity stewardship is the opportunity to build a new relationship between indigenous peoples and Nation States…’ Brazilian photographer Salgado’s new exhibition Genesis aims to highlight “the […]
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