To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunately, there will always be gaps in our knowledge, but there is no doubt that we and everything living today has evolved.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.