May 2012

Just how different are schools and universities when it comes to addressing sustainability?  I pondered that question recently, and the associated one of wondering whether "lessons" from one sector could have any applicability in the other.  I've been doing this,...

An engrossing story last night, in BBC FOUR's Unnatural Histories series, about the creation of Yellowstone national park and thence the whole US national park service.  It was packed with incident and argument, and wholly unsentimental – a nice change...

Well, according to the Telegraph's excitable headline writers they do!  However, the truth is less dramatic and more interesting – as was revealed if you struggled to the bottom of the story. According to research summarised in Ars Technica, ......

I wonder if this picture of a lesser black-backed gull taking a duckling from Dublin's Herbert Park pond will feature on many wildlife charity Christmas cards this year. I suspect not, as we're squeamish about some of the realities of the natural...