Tag Archives: Ecology

“Catching Thunder”, by Eskil Engdal & Kjetil Sæter, Zed.

Posted on 04/06/2020 by awtytravels

‘Patagonian toothfish’: raise your hand if you’ve ever heard of it. Apparently, the Patagonian toothfish is a “petulant and repulsive giant” living in the dark bathypelagic depths of the oceans surrounding Antarctica (and how exactly can a fish be ‘petulant’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Books review | Tagged Anctartic ocean, Bob Barker, Book Review, Books, Captain Hammarstedt, Ecology, Eskil Engdal, Extinction, Fishing, Kjetil Sæter, Mafia gallega, Patagonian Toothfish, Piracy, Pirates, Poaching, Sea Shepherd, Spain, Thunder, Zed Books | 6 Comments

The ecocide that wasn’t.

Posted on 23/05/2019 by awtytravels

Back in my university days there was a book that passed hands with the same speed as No-Global leaflets, only with more enthusiastic reviews. It was Collapse, by American geographer and historian Jared Diamond, author of that Guns, Germs and … Continue reading →

Posted in Americas, Chile | Tagged Aboriginal civilisation, Academia, Ahu, Article, Chile, Collapse, Deforestation, Don Felipe González, Don Francisco Antonio de Agüera y Infanzon, Easter Island, Ecocide, Ecology, Economics, European Contact, Exploration, Germs and Steel, Guns, Hawaii, Jacob Roggeveen, Jago Cooper, James Cook, Jared Diamond, Moai, Monolith, Ocean, Pacific, Rapa Nui, Rare earths, Statue, Wiley | 20 Comments

La Amazonia No Se Vende.

Posted on 14/02/2018 by awtytravels

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 →

Posted in Europe, Politics, Public Transportation, Spain | Tagged Achuar, Amazon, Amazon strike, Amazonas, Barajas, Chicha Libre, Colectivo, Cuzco, Development, Ecology, Embajadores, En la selva amazónica no hay primavera, Forest, Huelga Amazonica, La Amazonia No Se Vende, Latin America, Lavapies, Loreto, Madrid metro, Metro, Metropolitan line, Peru, Petrobras, Piccadilly, Pollution, Primavera, Selva Amazonica, Sol, Spain, Spring, Street art, TfL, Tirso de Molina | 9 Comments

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

Posted on 25/09/2017 by awtytravels

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 →

Posted in Asia, Kazakhstan | Tagged Aqespe, Aral, Aral Sea, Aral sea ships, Aralsk, Asia, Beached boats, Boat, Camel, Cotton, Desertification, Disappearance of Aral sea, Ecological disaster, Ecology, Impact on health, Kazakhstan, Lenin, Moscow, North Aral Sea, Salinisation, Ship Graveyard, Ships, Soviet Union, Travel, USSR, Uzbekistan, White Gold, World Bank, Zhalanash | 22 Comments

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

Posted on 22/09/2017 by awtytravels

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 →

Posted in Asia, Kazakhstan | Tagged Aral, Aral Sea, Aralsk, Asia, Cotton, Desertification, Disappearance of Aral sea, Ecological disaster, Ecology, Impact on health, Kazakhstan, Lenin, Moscow, North Aral Sea, Salinisation, Soviet Union, USSR, Uzbekistan, White Gold, World Bank | 15 Comments

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

Posted on 23/09/2014 by awtytravels

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 →

Posted in Politics, Public Transportation, Random memories, Reflections, Uncategorized | Tagged Climate change, Co2 emissions, Earth, Ecology, greenhouse gas | 1 Comment