By Anthea Phalosa – Coral reefs are a major source of attraction in the tropics, in places like Indonesia or Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. However, these biodiversity hotspots are facing a threat ultimately linked to human activity [1]. Anthropogenic activity such as the increasing use of fossil fuels have contributed to global scale warming…
by John Jestico – Climate change is defined as a “change in the long-term weather patterns that characterise the regions of the world”[1]. Changes to the Earth’s climate have occurred at various points over its’ 4.7-billion-year lifespan due to natural processes. However, contemporary climate fluctuations are being driven by human processes instead. As such, I believe…
by Tyler Broad Like everybody else, I am still haunted by the mental images that I took from the Blue Planet II series: turtles trapped inside plastic nets, an albatross dying from a plastic toothpick piercing through its insides, and a pilot whale refusing to let go of her dead child. As Attenborough tells us,…