Jaume Terradas talks about the fight between humans and Evil, represented by the figures of the white whale, in Moby Dick, and the white shark
In the prizes to the trajectory of a scientist, people say , the hardest is to begin, because after the first award, the winner can
In mid-May, NASA announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, thanks to the Kepler space telescope. Quite a lot… The globalization seems to make the
In this post-Sant Jordi commentary, I should like to refer to just a few books of great quality and interest on some perhaps less well-known
A major (and controversial) topic in ecology is the way in which plants and animals associated to form natural communities. Discussions on this point started
We cannot remain indifferent to the intriguing and risky world of possibilities that opens up as a result of biology merging with technology, evolution and
This phrase is often repeated among biologists, but it is time for non-biologists to recognize the truth of this statement. In the opening session of
When I studied the subject of ecology at the University of Barcelona, about the years 1964-65 (fifty years ago!), Margalef was our teacher. Even though
Ecologists have talked and written a lot about how human activities change ecosystems or living conditions, at the local or global scales. We also claim
In the year 1970, an international meeting was held, organized by IUCN and UNESCO, on Environmental Education in the School Curriculum, at the Foresta Institute
