“It may be doubted whether there are many other animals … which have played so important a part in the history of the world”. Charles Darwin.

In some fascinating new research, scientists have found that the humble earthworm can provide a new sensitive and detailed Read more…

In an alarming new assessment of the oceans and their ecological health, Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, believes that human impacts are laying the groundwork for mass extinctions in the oceans Read more…

In these days of intergovernmental protocols such as Kyoto, and other large scale continent wide initiatives it may seem obvious that whatever you and I as individuals do will be ineffectual except on such a small scale as to make no appreciable difference. Well now it seems Read more…

There are many issues that remind us of the fragility of our world and its ecosystems – climate change, habitat destruction, GM plants and so on ad infinitum and these multifarious issues generally lead us to worry about the uncertainty in the ecological balance of nature Read more…

To many people, the ecology/green movement is a modern day invention arising from our increasing concern about global warming, but here we show you that in fact eco thinking has been a long time in the making. In future issues we’ll take a more in depth look at Read more…