Guest Author • Jul 24, 2017 •
Colin Hall, University of South Australia and Eric Charrault, University of South Australia For tens of thousands of years, humans have created colours through simple chemistry. At first we used dyes found in nature such as berries and charcoal. Later, new pigments were synthesised in the lab. By now, you might think scientists would have … Read More
Brendan Moyle • Jun 29, 2015 •
The reason there has not been a lot of photos of seascapes of late, is I’ve been out of the country. Again. The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, and the International Trade Center, organised the symposium for the 18th and 19th of June. I was presenting as one of the keynote speakers. It was somewhat fortunate that the first … Read More
Peter Dearden • Sep 13, 2012 •
by SM Morgan The Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami in March of 2011 caused an unfortunate side effect when it wasted the crap out of a couple nuclear power plants. The nuclear material released into the surrounding environment from the Fukushima Daiichi failures caused a fair bit of panic and we are still only now working out how much of an … Read More