AN OPEN LETTER TO MIDGESDear Midges, I apologise for encroaching on your mangrove breeding space whilst fishing the other day. The gravity of my offence is...
WELCOME TO THE ANTHROPOCENE?Goodbye Holocene, hello Anthropocene. Let’s give a warm welcome then. And we sure did in 2016, the hottest year on record, the 4th...
THE TERRITORY WITHOUT A RESPONSIBLE MINISTERThe Chair of the EDO NT, Will Crawford, shares his thoughts on Port Melville and the failure of the NT’s Environmental Assessment Regime...
PORMPURAAWAll PhDs face hurdles. Mine was a decision, halfway through my first year, to withdraw all support for the project I was working on in...
FLYCATCHERThis is an article about Flycatchers, the birds from which this magazine takes its name, or so I thought. When Jen, the editor of this...
DARWIN’S FINCHES: THOSE OF THE TOP END, NOT THE GALAPAGOSAustralian birds are bright and beautiful, and are valued by the public as shown with a species of honeyeater recently appearing on the...
THE KICK INSIDEThe first time I felt you kick was as I sat down to a seminar on the global carbon cycle. Buoyed by your thump I became acutely aware...
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT PROJECT SEA DRAGON?Project Sea Dragon is a seriously big project for the Territory. Its proponents and the company responsible for it talk enthusiastically...