No Sacred Cows

Scepticism served medium rare

Category: Environment

  • A beach that once held shells and seaweed now spits back our own rubbish. What would have shocked those of us who grew up before the plastic age barely registers today.

  • Once, this was a living coral – a complex city of polyps, feeding and breathing in warm tropical waters. Now it lies bleached and brittle on a Chumphon shoreline, carved by time and tide into a relic of itself. A single Asian weaver ant explores the labyrinth where an ocean colony once thrived. Life continues,…