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• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXI

  

  Fourth batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015, because I’m travelling and haven’t had a lot of time for a more detailed post (see full stock of previous... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Grim Tale of Global Shark Declines

  

  Please don’t eat meHow do you prevent declines of species you cannot even see? This is (and has always been) the dilemma for fisheries because, well, humans... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• National Commitment to Conservation Brings Biodiversity Benefits

  

  What makes some conservation endeavours successful where so many fail to protect biodiversity? Or, how long is a piece of string? Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Scientific Conspiracies Are Impossible

  

  We’ve all heard it somewhere before: “It’s all just a big conspiracy and those bloody scientists are just trying to protect their funding sources. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• An Appeal to Extinction Chronologists

  

  Extinction is forever, right? Yes, it’s true that once the last individual of a species dies (apart from insane notions that de-extinction will do anything to... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXX

  

  Third batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015 (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Dawn of Life

  

  Looking east toward the northern Flinders Ranges from Ediacara Conservation Park. © CJA BradshawI’ve had one of the most mind-blowing weeks of scientific... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Statistical Explainer: Average Temperature Increases Can Be Deceiving

  

  Over the years I’ve used a simple graphic from the IPCC 2007 Report to explain to people without a strong background in statistics just why average temperature... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Twenty Tips for Writing a Research Proposal

  

  This post’s title might promise a lot, but it would be disingenuous of me to imply that I could cover all of the essential components of this massive topic in... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Lomborg: a Detailed Citation Analysis

  

  There’s been quite a bit of palaver recently about the invasion of Lomborg’s ‘Consensus’ Centre to the University of Western Australia, including inter alia tha... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Something Rotten from Denmark

  

  It was just reported in the Guardian that infamous and discredited environmental charlatan, Bjørn Lomborg, who has recently been given the green light to... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Missing the Forest Despite Its Trees

  

  An exchange on Alert-Conservation.org over the intactness of boreal forests has just erupted. Bill Laurance asked me to weigh in as an independent appraiser of... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• How Things Have (not) Changed

  

  The other night I had the pleasure of dining with the former Australian Democrats leader and senator, Dr John Coulter, at the home of Dr Paul Willis (Director o... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXIX

  

  Second batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015 (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• How to Contact a Potential PhD Supervisor

  © http://www.phdcomics.comIt’s probably fair to say that most university-based academics regularly receive requests from people around the world wishing to be... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Australians: Out-of-touch, Urban Squanderers

  

  There’s a romantic myth surrounding Australia that is pervasive both overseas and within the national psyche: this sun-scorched continent home to the stoic... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Australia’s Perfect Storm of Negligence

  

  If, for the purposes of some sick and twisted thought experiment, you were to design policies that would ensure the long-term failure of a wealthy, developed... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Avoiding Genetic Rescue Not Justified on Genetic Grounds

  

  Genetics to the rescue!I had the pleasure today of reading a new paper by one of the greatest living conservation geneticists, Dick Frankham. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Social and Economic Value of Protected Areas

  

  © P. Crowley/”mokolabs” via FlickrI’ve just come across an exceptionally important paper published recently in PLoS Biology by a team of venerable conservation... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth’s Second Lung Has Emphysema

  

  © WWFMany consider forests as the ‘lungs’ of the planet – the idea that trees and other plants take up carbon and produce oxygen (the carbon and oxygen cycles). Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 ENVIRONMENT