Chris Thomas
Lab-grown meat and other alternatives to farming could free up Earth’s farmland for conservation or development
Here’s the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for ...
‘Insectageddon’? Biologists say we need better data before warning of impending insect extinction
As members of that subset of the human population who love insects, we have been alarmed by a recent publication ...
Biodiversity crisis? Humans may actually be creating more species than we’re killing
Chris Thomas … a professor of conservation biology at the University of York in the UK … does not deny that ...
Could climate change increase species diversity?
A decade ago, ecologist Chris Thomas warned that climate change would wipe out a quarter of all species. In the following ...