Tag Archives: Ecology

La Amazonia No Se Vende.

Posted on February 14, 2018 by

I blame it on the Piccadilly Line. You see, living in London makes you think that every other city’s public transportation system will move at the same speed as the unwieldy web of train lines that huffs and puffs beneath … Continue reading →

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Disaster by design: the death and partial rebirth of the Aral Sea (Part 2).

Posted on September 25, 2017 by

I’d seen Serik a long time before we met in the parking lot outside the Altair hotel; in fact, I first read about him on Al Jazeera. Dubbed “Aralsk’s only tour guide”, he’d accepted to be my guide for the … Continue reading →

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Disaster by design: the death and partial rebirth of the Aral Sea (Part 1).

Posted on September 22, 2017 by

The aurora was a promise of yet another scorcher of a day, as it’d been yesterday and tomorrow was bound to be, but right now it was fresh and cool as I sat on my pack on the first of … Continue reading →

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Reducing one’s personal environmental footprint: my way of dealing with the problem.

Posted on September 23, 2014 by

I’m a climate change sceptic. It’s not that I don’t believe it’s happening, but I seriously think that most of what’s happening in the world has very little to do with us and there’s plenty of evidence to support that. Look … Continue reading →

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