People won’t become more resilient to the impacts of climate change unless the underlying causes of their vulnerability are analysed and addressed. 
Challenging inequality is at the heart of climate adaptation
Racoons with big balls or the facts?
Could an animated film about mischievous racoon dogs with big balls that shapeshift to survive achieve something that no amount of non-fiction publications ever could?
Just call me Vera: Spirit of 45
Well, that’s what the Spirit of ’45 quiz ended up calling me.
How stories wake up our senses and rouse our emotions
While our brains are awfully clever, they’re not always good at distinguishing between reality and fiction. That’s why books hit us so powerfully. According to this fascinating article by Anne Murphy Paul, certain words like “cinnamon” activate parts of the …
Nature: Making the most of what we have
My garden is a refuge from the chaos. But while I enjoy pottering about planting and poking at things, it turns out that it may also have some conservation value.
Storytelling 101: An everyday story of eco-warriors on the high seas
“This earth is not a resource, it’s a relationship. It’s a love story – that’s what the earth is”, says singer Regina Lund in this video for Greenpeace on the Rainbow Warrior boat. What is perplexing is why so few environmental organisations have gotten to grips with telling that love story, or with storytelling more generally.
The modern day dam busters
While the plucky, scientist and inventor Barns Wallace made an excellent dam buster in Second World War with his bouncing bomb, it’s peace time now so modern dam busters are embracing communications instead of 9,000 pounds of explosives.
Bloody mess: the exotic species cocktail the Great Lakes have become
When the Captain of the Griffin sailed his ship towards Frontenac (now Kingston, Ontario) in 1679, what did he see? What would he make of the state of them now?
Just leave them kids alone
In search of the Blue Adonis
We set out on the Coombe Bissett chalk down with a clear objective: to search out and find the elusive Blue Adonis.