Over 62 million tonnes of coconuts are grown worldwide every year and, if you think that sounds like an awful lot of Malibu and Bountys, it just shows how little you must know about them. In the Malay language, coconut palms are called “pokok seribu guna”...
Nature can be cruel. Animals eat animals and animals are eaten by other animals – it’s a nasty business. However, a lion eating an antelope is one thing; a wasp injecting an egg into the body of a disabled cockroach is quite another. Parasites may be nature at...
A river is often thought of as something relaxing – somewhere to sit quietly, having a little think, perhaps waving to a dog on a barge. It’s peaceful. Unfortunately, not every river can be as peaceful as this (imagined, fictional) version; often the...
Once, on a day trip to the beach, I saw hundreds of dead jellyfish washed up on the sand. What could’ve happened? How did they get there? Why were there so many? These were just some of the questions I didn’t stop to ask. Instead of showing a natural...
If you’re a little squeamish (or you’re eating something), you might want to give this one a miss… We’re all going to die (except me, hopefully) so what better way to spend our remaining time on earth than by thinking about what happens to the...
