Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...
What's lurking in your freezer: a lasagna or deep-frozen pizza? Conservationists rely on freezers too—but they run much cooler than your model, with the thermostat set to a frosty -196°C, the ...
The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae. Hippos, today restricted to ...