Category Archives: Environment

Pollinators and our Plates

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Guess the replies if you ask if wasps and flies have any virtues. Many people wish them extinct, but they are important pollinators along with wild bees, honeybees, and lepidoptera. The decline of 1-2% per year in insect populations around … Continue reading →

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A tornado not heading to Oz

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up. “There’s a cyclone coming …” he said. Thus, began Dorothy’s voyage over the Kansas prairie with her dog, Toto, carried by a tornado. The first warnings were the wail of the wind and bowing grass. … Continue reading →

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Appreciation of James Lovelock (1919-2022)

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Did you ever regret you hadn’t met someone after hearing it was too late? I did today. James Lovelock was one of my scientific heroes. He died on Tuesday at age 103. I knew people who worked with him at … Continue reading →

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Overshooting the Human Project

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Roger Gosden

The first astronauts described Earth with mystical awe as a vulnerable pearl in the barren wastes of space. It had looked the same since before the rise of mammals in the Cenozoic epoch, but suddenly our dirty footprints are all … Continue reading →

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Rewilding South Georgia

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Roger Gosden

There’s something about being island-born that calls you back, even if delivered there by accident (instead of London). Gazing from a mainland shore, if I see an island I feel drawn to visit and savor the mystery. It is Avalon … Continue reading →

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