What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad?
Tim Lenton from the University of East Anglia told the Cambridge meeting: We are close to being committed to a collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, but we don’t think we have passed the tipping point...
Conservationists, it seems, are dedicated to protecting the weak and vulnerable, the endangered and the abused. Nature generally promotes the strong and the wily, the resilient and versatile.
I am a reporter on climate change. I have been following the topic for New Scientist magazine in the UK and others for twenty years now. And when I talk to climate scientists during their coffee break...
Conservationists who want to cosset nature like a delicate flower, to protect it from the threat of alien species, are the ethnic cleansers of nature, neutralizing the forces that they should be promo...