Monica Evans

2 weeks ago | thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org | Monica Evans

Smack-bang in the center of the Pacific Ocean – slightly north of the equator and about 1,800 kilometers south of Hawaii – lies uninhabited Palmyra Atoll, a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge managed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC). This year, a group of zoologists spent their Easter weekend there hunting for – and finding – Easter eggs of an unconventional kind: those laid by four much-watched pairs of sihek, or Guam kingfishers (Todiramphus cinnamominus).

1 month ago | sexscience.substack.com | Kate Evans |Monica Evans |Rata Gordon

Who are we? A science journalist, a dancing essayist and a poet-researcher—or, three MILFs in a small town on a small island, bringing different flavours of queerness to the table. We’ve all got different skills and styles, and wildly different Google search histories,but we share a fascination with bodies, pleasure, language, power and weird shit that doesn’t get talked about.

2 months ago | thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org | Monica Evans

To learn more, join us at GLF Forests (24–25 April) and Forests, People, Planet (27 May). Have you ever been in a temperate forest? If you’ve spent time in Europe, North America, East Asia, Australasia or the Southern Cone of South America, chances are that you have – though you might not have recognized it as such. Temperate forests are the world’s second-largest terrestrial biome, encompassing a quarter of our planet’s total forest area.

Mar 10, 2025 | thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org | Monica Evans

For many of us, encounters with wolves reside in the realms of children’s games and fairy tales – Little Red Riding Hood and The Boy Who Cried Wolf spring to mind. Each features a scary and unpredictable figure who sneaks up on us, or who we sneak up on, heart pumping and legs ready to run. Primal fear of apex predators runs deep – even in the Anthropocene, when attacks on humans by creatures like wolves, sharks and crocodiles are extremely rare.

Dec 8, 2024 | thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org | Monica Evans

Follow our coverage from the UNCCD COP16 on ThinkLandscape. Picture this. You’re flying low over the Red Sea, along the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Amid the sand dunes, rust-red outcrops, and splashes of bright light in turquoise water, something shimmers in the distance: a silvery reflection of everything around you. Moving closer, you realize it’s a vast, mirrored wall, half a kilometer high and so long that you can’t see its other end.