Back in the late 1980s I had the pleasure of meeting the English scientist David Bellamy. Bellamy was famous at the time as …
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I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Palissya – mysterious cone of New Zealand’s Jurassic forests
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the early 1980s when I was working on the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, near the bottom end of New Zealand’s …
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The first time I came to Brisbane in the hot part of the year – I couldn’t believe how anyone could survive …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Canary Islands – ‘Last’ Rainforest in Europe (?)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe fossils are clear – just a few million years ago Europe was covered in broad-leaved, evergreen forest. There were palm trees …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Attack of the Forest-Killing Fungi (Kauri and the Elm Decline)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …