Notebook from the North

An independent and international body called the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, but let’s just stick to IPBES…) did a global assessment recently, where they took a look at how life everywhere on the planet is doing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the answer was ‘not great’. The key message of their assessment was Read more

Back in the day, in that there history, there were fewer people about. The people that were around travelled through forests and across meadows, and if they followed a particular route often enough this might slowly have become a sort-of dirt path. This dirt path could be a physical path that you might see and Read more

Heading off to University to study an undergraduate degree in Ecology, I was sure I’d chosen the coolest subject on offer. Admittedly I was a complete environmental nerd, so I understood that not everyone would feel the same way. What I was not expecting was that in my course there was a grand total of Read more