Svetlana Alexievich’s book ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’ is one of the most impactful I’ve ever read. The book is a series …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
The Jurassic fossil soils of Curio Bay, and Fortrose-Otara, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSoils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is …
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Forests
The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question …
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Ukraine: War and Wonders
The Invincible Children of Kharkiv – Musicians in the ‘City without Windows’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleKharkiv, in the far north-east of Ukraine, has been described as ‘a city without windows’ (Mayor Ihor Terekhov in a Twitter post …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
The Hollow Tree Stumps at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA hollow tree stump at the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, New Zealand. The inside of the stump (the wood is …
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History/Archaeology
Geography and the Bronze Age Battle at Tollense, Germany
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …
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When humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems …
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Amateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts …
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Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the …
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One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, …
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