You may have heard about the fungus-based “fairy rings” that spring up in the countryside. If you’re lucky, you might have even come across one on a sunny country ramble. The fairy circles discussed below are...
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The sand cat (Felis margarita), also known as the sand dune cat, is the only cat that spends the majority of its time in true deserts. Of all the wild cats we’ve tackled...
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Everyone above the age of 5 knows that the biggest creature on earth is the blue whale, not quite so many people know who comes in second place. It is in fact the...
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Big old unanswerable questions, I know. But sometimes amongst the inanity of general life, I get slapped in the chops by a sense of duty to have a butchers at things that might...
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Intrepid Potash, Inc., based in Denver, Colorado, is America’s largest producer of potassium chloride, also known as muriate of potash. It owns three mines, in the wild west of the U.S.: Carlsbad, New Mexico, Moab,...
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As we all known, people who work for food companies like to flog their wares in any way that they can. If it is possible to infer that a product is healthy, all...
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Welcome to part three of my leisurely wander through the timeline of life. Recently, I touched on the Cambrian period which led to the Ordovician, and today we’ll tackle the scintillating Silurian. The Silurian...
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Platybelodon and Amebelodon, what lovely beasts they were. They look like the type of animal you would see in an awful Disney Star Wars remake, but the important difference is, these guys actually roamed...
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Scientists from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory have done something pretty impressive. They have mapped the chemical content of the Amazon basin and its ancient forests. It’s the largest project of its type, and as an added bonus the...
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This is the second installment of impressive weather records. Last time I covered temperature and this time it is the turn of our old foe: rain. I hate rain. It’s my least favourite...
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