‘Drat’ in the Year of the Rat!
MY late father, who never ever swore or blasphemed, would occasionally utter an expletive when things he was doing went…
Browsing: Nature Matters
What will it take to wake us all up?
THE Swedish words ‘enbrutto 144 ar’, translated into 144 years, are awakening calls to all of us. We face an…
Our global desertification
WHAT are deserts? Geographers define them as regions with less than 250 millimetres of rain a year. Botanists will declare…
Dawn of the third decade of the 21st century
NOW into our fifth day of this new decade, I just wonder how many lessons we have learned from this…
Nature’s contributions to Christmas
WHILST Christmas-tide is a joyful occasion for celebrating Christ’s birth and giving and receiving presents, it is also a time…
A natural contributor to climate change
TODAY the very words ‘climate change’ seem to be on everyone’s tongue for, inevitably, much attention has been focussed on…
A blazing and blistering year
WE have all felt the heat this year but not as much as those who do not work or live…
The clock is ticking down for the world’s major rivers
OUR rivers are running out of time. Water is the major source of all life and has been for millennia.…