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Book review – Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
7-minute readkeywords: ecology, environmental issues, wildlife conservation When humans abandon a place, nature comes rushing back in. Dotted around our planet are numerous areas now devoid of human...
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Book review – Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
9-minute readkeywords: ecology, entomology, history of science The recent loss of famous entomologist and brilliant mind Edward O. Wilson shook me. In an attempt to find some solace I turned to Richard...
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Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell...
7-minute readkeywords: conservation biology, ecology, evolutionary biology When considering environmental issues, the usual rallying cry is that of “saving the planet”. Rarely do people acknowledge...
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Book review – Cave Biodiversity: Speciation and Diversity of Subterranean Fauna
8-minute readkeywords: biodiversity, ecology, evolutionary biology The deep sea is often mentioned as one of the last remaining unexplored areas on the planet, but there is another, closely related...
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Book review – Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
9-minute readkeywords: earth sciences, ecology One year ago today, the famous scientist, environmentalist, and futurist James Lovelock passed away at the age of 103. Amongst his many achievements, he...
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Book review – The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
9-minute readkeywords: earth sciences, ecology James Lovelock, the famous scientist, environmentalist, and futurist, is probably best remembered for the Gaia hypothesis. This is the notion that the...
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Book review – On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between...
10-minute readkeywords: earth sciences, ecology The scientist, environmentalist, and futurist James Lovelock is probably best remembered for the Gaia hypothesis: the notion that the Earth is a giant...
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Book review – The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet
10-minute readkeywords: earth sciences, history of science, philosophy This is the final part of my four-part review series on the Gaia hypothesis (see also part 1, part 2, and part 3), James...
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Book review – Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
8-minute readkeywords: ecology, wildlife conservation The road to hell might be paved with good intentions, but the roads to pretty much everywhere else are paved with the corpses of animals. In...
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Book review – Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
7-minute readkeywords: biogeochemistry, ecology What a killer title. Rarely have I seen three snappy words so effectively capture the essence of a concept in biology. What concept is that?...
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Book review – Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior
9-minute readkeywords: entomology, ethology This is the second of a trio of reviews in which I take a brief detour into ants and collective behaviour more generally. I previously reviewed The Ant...
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Book review – The Ecology of Collective Behavior
8-minute readkeywords: ecology, ethology This is the third of a trio of reviews in which I take a brief detour into ants and collective behaviour more generally. I previously reviewed The Ant...
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