Biodiversity is literally the biotic richness present within species, among species and across ecosystems on this planet. Biodiversity is declining rapidly. When I wrote Chapter 7 of Our Dying Planet, on biodiversity loss and the Holocene Mass Extinction, I delved… Read More »Species DO Matter: New analyses confirm biodiversity and ecosystem function are linked
Rio + 20, EarthSummit 2012, or more formally, the Second UN Conference on Sustainable Development takes place in Rio do Janiero in one week’s time. I am not holding my breath. The journal, Nature, devoted its editorial in the June… Read More »Rio+20, a place where good things might happen, but probably won’t
Maybe I am particularly slow, but I just spent two wonderful, if exhausting, days at the second Muskoka Summit on the Environment, a biennial event here in Muskoka. The 250+ participants included university professors, graduate and undergraduate students, highschool students,… Read More »It IS possible to present complex science to the public