The Conservation Amendment Bill is grounded in an ideology that assumes everything of public value must ultimately be monetised, traded, or sacrificed…

Does ecology give rise to particular cosmologies? In 1947-48, two wooden figures were discovered in peat (apparently just below the surface) of…

Traveling to Lviv Camouflage nets – in this day and age? As a kid, I grew up, painting camouflage on Second World…

We’ve all read Dr Seuss’s ‘The Lorax’ – right? The Lorax spoke for the trees. In the book, Truffula Trees are seen…

Travelling from Sydney up to Brisbane, through the lowlands, across the wetlands, crossing rivers, seeing tree ferns – I can’t help thinking…

When Polynesians first discovered Aotearoa–New Zealand, much of the South Island — with few exceptions — was forested from the tree line…

This series brings together posts exploring the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southermost New Zealand –  from the in-place stumps of…

Lana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’ is filling the air of the restaurant in Odesa.... “Done my hair up real big, beauty queen style, High heels off, I'm feelin' alive” It’s now the third time I’ve hea...

The Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay appear to have been overwhelmed by water-lain material, not by air-fall volcanic ash. But the broader location was somewhere on a floodplain adjacent a highlan...

In a pile of rubble in the destroyed Gymnasium No. 47 in Kharkiv (Харьковская гимназия № 47), Ukraine, I picked up a book. The school was, fortunately, not open when it was destroyed by Russia in the ...

This year I headed down to the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, in one of the worst stretches of spring weather I’ve experienced. Lots of rain, and a high, rough sea - but I wanted to have a good...

In my Fifth Form year at Dunstan High School, Alexandra, my Biology Teacher was Peter Child. He retired shortly afterwards, and as his Obituary puts it (Pierce, 1986), this was a ‘liberation’! Yes, I ...

The ‘God’ of trace fossils, Adolf ‘Dolf’ Seilacher, once visited our Geology Department, when I was an undergrad. My Prof, Doug Campbell, arranged a field trip for him, and invited me to come. We w…

Thirty years ago (Pole, 1994), I suggested all of New Zealand’s current flora may have arrived over the sea, by long-distance dispersal. This was counter to a prevailing idea that at least some of …

The Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southern New Zealand, have been known for at least a hundred and fifty years. They first appear to have come under scientific scrutiny in 1878, when the ge…

Sitting a little above the more famous lake of Cradle Mountain National Park , Tasmamia – Dove Lake, is Wombat Pool. Some tourists are confused by the name – assuming its a good place to see wombat…

Washington is pushing Kyiv to approve the framework of the deal by Nov. 27, coinciding with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, one of the sources told Reuters.

Svetlana Alexievich’s book ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’ is one of the most impactful I’ve ever read. The book is a series of interviews with surviving women who fought in the Soviet Red Army during …

Soils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is around them – such as the climate. For this reason, some scie…

Former Far North beekeeper and pest trapper Brad Windust is sounding the alarm over a lack of urgency shown by authorities over eradicating the pest.

Mo Munshi’s story is a cautionary tale for Australian executives plying their trades in far-flung regions of the world.