my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 2: Large herbivores like #elephants #mammoths #mastodons share one big problem: human hunters. New evidence shows even #Neanderthals hunted and butchered elephants, so time for a big picture feature on this.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-long-history-of-elephants-suffering.html

#science #conservation #megafauna

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 3: #groundwater supplies are shrinking around the world due to unsustainable use and #megadrought linked to #ClimateCatastrophe https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/02/running-out-of-groundwater.html

#science #environment #water #sustainability

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: Expanding our concept of #cities in time and space can help with #sustainability in the face of the #ClimateCatastrophe

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/02/urbanism-now-and-then.html -
#science #environment #urbanisation #urbanism #GreenCities #SustainableCities #AncientCities

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 6: #MigratorySpecies are facing multiple threats

#science #ClimateCatastrophe #CurrentBiology #ScienceJournalism #ProseAndPassion #environment #birds #ecology

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 8: In my features I've warned of the growing #PlasticPollution problem a few times, but does anybody listen? So here's another one on this messy topic. Pegged to the ongoing global negotiations which are at risk of going the way of climate summits, ie nowhere. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/04/stop-plastic-pollution.html

#science #environment #ScienceJournalism #ProseAndPassion
#plastics #pollution #health

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 9: For the special issue on #EcosystemRestoration I wrote a feature about #rivers being restored.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/05/rivers-restored.html

#science #environment #ScienceJournalism #ProseAndPassion #freshwater #rivers #freeflow

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 11: with some 70,000 years of human history, #Australia is actually more ancient than Europe.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/06/ancient-australia.html
#science #anthropology #migration #sahul #OutOfAfrica

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 16: As it's still summer travel season, here's my bit about how #pathogens travel - from the stone age to #Covid, but the main new research I discuss is about intercontinental travel by sail and steam ships.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/08/travelling-pathogens.html #science #ecology #disease #travel #history #SailShips #SteamShips

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 20: the challenge to understand the #biomechanics of #flying, swimming, crawling in long-extinct species such as #pterosaurs. part of a special issue on #physics and #biology

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/10/flapping-pterosaurs.html #evolution #science

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 21: #kelp forests could be a casualty or a saviour in the #ClimateCatastrophe. Up to us, unfortunately.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/11/brown-algae-and-blue-carbon.html #science #ecology #MarineBiology #BlueCarbon #CarbonSequestration #environment

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 22: Looking at the fight against #AIDS / #HIV after the recent good news on #prophylactics.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/11/good-news.html

#science #medicine #retrovirus #publicHealth #STI