World of Wonders

A blog about the natural world and our place in it, by science writer Gaia Vince, whose 2.5-year trek around 40 countries to witness the effects of humanity’s planetary changes is the subject of her book, Adventures in the Anthropocene.

• Seeds of Hope
• What Migrant Crisis?
• Wisdom of Crowds
• Peak Kid
• Holiday Fever for Tourists
• The Shot Heard Around the World
• Blame the Messenger
• Whom Is Nature For?
• Are We Alone?
• Are We Too Many?
• Political Ecology
• Waste Opportunity
• Modified People
• Extinction by Unnatural Selection
• Power of One
• Exercise for People Who Can’t Be Bothered
• Driven to Distraction
• In Praise of Slime Molds
• The Big One
• Breezing Up a Fair Wind
• Unnatural Beings