“When you see tuna, think panda. The bluefin tuna is now on the brink of extinction, thanks to industrial overfishing and corporate greeed. breeding populations could disappear from our oceans as early as 2012. Please do your bit to end … Continue reading
by j p, March 24, 2011 0 comments
Condoms on microphones, the Yangtze river dolphin, Douglas Adams, audiobooks & wondering what archaeologists in the future will think of this era. Poker Machines in the Future Measuring 5.6 on the richter scale, 1989 in Newcastle introduced many people to … Continue reading
by j p, October 12, 2007 1 Comment
How many species died their last death in 2006? Hard to uncover, but a decade ago, Edward O Wilson, the Harvard naturalist, estimated that about 30,000 species were going extinct each year – an extinction rate of about three an … Continue reading
by j p, December 23, 2006 0 comments
This week, no small task – rewiring the greatest delete key of them all. An attempted reanimation of debates about extinction. And in the face of such a large beast swooping down on us, all we can hope for today … Continue reading
by j p, June 27, 2003 0 comments