How to make a Mammoth - Genomics Aotearoa
Peter Dearden • Apr 19, 2015 •
Are we really close to resurrecting the Mammoth? … Read More
Tagged: extinction
The Sixth Extinction - Hot Topic
Bryan Walker • Jun 16, 2014 •
Elizabeth Kolbert’s recent book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is science journalism of a high order. As with her earlier notable book on climate change, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, she includes lively narrative accounts of her visits to places around the world where scientists are at work and communicates the import of their […] … Read More
Should we be prepared? - Open Parachute
Ken Perrott • Feb 15, 2013 •
Tomorrow morning the asteroid Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass by the earth. At its nearest approach Friday (Feb. 15, Morning of February 16 NZ time), the 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 will be just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) from … Continue reading → … Read More
The state of the ocean (dire) - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Jun 23, 2011 •
Alex Rogers, Professor of Conservation Biology at the Department of Zoology at Oxford, and scientific director of the International Programme on the State of the Ocean describes the main problems affecting the global ocean — and discusses some of the things we could do to address them in this new video. The IPSO has just [...] … Read More