I don’t like unexpected visitors, even less so when the visitor is an aggressive wall of ice. Luckily, ice shoves, as they’re called, don’t happen very often. They need very specific conditions to develop. These ice tsunamis form when a large body of...
Are you going to the Caribbean this winter? If so, sit down – we need to have a chat. A chat about the most dangerous tree in the world. This is no joke. It’s worse than that big plant from the Little Shop of Horrors. The manchineel tree grows in the...
Sometimes I buy myself some flowers, and sometimes I leave them in the vase for too long. Ooof, the smell! Well, these flowers smell worse, and not because they’re rotting – they’re supposed to smell bad. A stinky orchid I named it that. It’s...
Have you ever been listening to a nice bit of samba or reggae and wondered what that squeaking/woofing noise was? Well, I have. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, listen to this: Or this (you’ll recognise it):...
When you really think about it, there’s nothing that isn’t weird about a chameleon. They change colour Well, let’s start with the obvious one. Everyone knows chameleons change colour, we just accept it like it’s normal. IT IS NOT NORMAL. When I...
