Sarah Hearne is a PhD student studying marine ecology with a focus on niche separation in living and fossil fishes from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is a feminist with a particular interest in the issues facing women in STEM.
Besides being obviously callous, the government's repeated threats to send asylum seekers to Ascension Island are deeply unserious and completely unworkable
Headlines warn of a poisonous plant endangering our children's lives, but we should be less worried about hemlock and more worried about the safety of our public footpaths and pavements
Mass tree planting schemes are a simple and obvious way to sequester carbon and fight climate change. The only problem is, they almost certainly won't work.
Eye-catching efforts to recreate the woolly mammoth may grab the headlines, but if we really want to atone for our ecological sins, we should look to protect species that are still here
Science has only recently begun to explore ASMR - but the consistency of the reports from those who experience it suggest there's something worth understanding.
