George Edwards interviews Dr Peter Lindsey, a conservationist at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, about his most recent paper ‘Conserving Africa’s Wildlife and Wildlands Through the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond’
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Hunger Games of XR
Sophia Thornton argues that the aggressive policing of Extinction Rebellion (XR) highlights the UK government’s reticence to combat the climate and ecological crisis
Exeter University scientist releases book about natural world
An academic at the University has recently published a book that investigates how animals and plants use trickery and ingenuity to deceive one other for evolutionary advancement. Dr Martin Stevens, Associate Professor in Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at Exeter University, launched his new book Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead this week. […]
Biology of the Big Screen: Godzilla’s “MUTOs”
An international multimedia phenomenon since 1954, the Godzilla franchise returned on the big screens just in time for its 60th anniversary last year, with a rather surprising story including some new exotic characters. The classic “monster against the city” scenario is twisted and turned so that the iconic creature loses the “bad guy” label to some […]