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• Transition from the Anthropocene to the Minicene

  

  Going, going … © CJA BradshawI’ve just returned from a life-changing trip to South Africa, not just because it was my first time to the continent, but also... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Staggering Rhino Poaching in the Kruger

  

  I have the immense honour and pleasure of attending the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute 50th Anniversary Celebration conference currently... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation is Many Things to Many People

  

  I’ve never really entered the so-called (i.e., contrived) ‘debate’ regarding New Conservation, because I’ve always felt in my gut that it was a false dichotomy... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Inexorable Rise of Human Population Pressures in Africa

  

  © Nick BrandtI’ve been a bit mad preparing for an upcoming conference, so I haven’t had a lot of time lately to blog about interesting developments in the... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXVIII

  

  Another six biodiversity cartoons for your midday chuckle & groan. There’s even one in there that takes the mickey out of some of my own research (see if you ca... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Rich and Stable Communities Most Vulnerable to Change

  

  I’ve just read an interesting new study that was sent to me by the lead author, Giovanni Strona. Published the other day in Nature Communications, Strona ... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Keeping India’s Forests

  

  I’ve just returned from a short trip to the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, one of India’s elite biological research... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2015

  

  Back in February I wrote about our new bibliometric paper describing a new way to rank journals, which I still contend is a fairer representation of relative... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• More Things Stay the Same, More We Retrogress

  

  Within six months of Abbott and the Coalition seizing power in the 2013 Australian election, decades—if not centuries—of environmental damage and retrograde... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Seeing the Wood for the Trees

  

  The Forest Synopsis: Photo of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, India, by Claire WordleyFrom the towering kapoks of South America to the sprawling banyans of South... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• George Hubert Wilkins — Australia’s First Whitefella Conservationist?

  

  As many of you know, I have held the ‘Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change’ at the University of Adelaide since January 2015. My colleague and friend,... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Subconsciously Sexist?

  

  It was with some consternation that I processed some recent second-hand scuttlebutt about my publishing history with respect to gender balance. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Buying Time

  

  Originally published in the Otago Daily Times by Tom McKinlay—If we don’t act soon, the world we leave our children will be in a sorry state indeed, leading... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Extinction Synergy: Deadly Combination of Human Hunting & Climate Change Wrote...

  

  Here’s a paper we’ve just had published in Science Advances (Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• What Immigration Means for Australia’s Climate-change Policies

  

  After dipping my foot into the murky waters of human population demography a few years ago, I’m a little surprised that I find myself here again. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Species-area & Species-accumulation Curves Not the Same

  

  I’ve just read an elegant little study that has identified the main determinants of differences in the slope of species-area curves and species-accumulation... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Homage to Hanski

  

  The Quantitative Applied Ecology Group A tribute from QAECO Ecology lost a giant last week. It was with great sadness that we at QAECO heard of Professor Ilkk... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXVII

  

  Another six biodiversity cartoons because I have a full-on month of lecturing. I’ll call this one the ‘over-population’ issue. See full stock of previous... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Australia Pisses Away the Little Water It Has

  

  Water, water nowhere, with little left to drink.—Australians are superlative natural resource wasters, but living in the driest inhabited continent on the... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• One-two Carbon Punch of Defaunation

  

  I’ve just read a well-planned and lateral-thinking paper in Nature Communications that I think readers of CB.com ought to appreciate. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2016 ENVIRONMENT