Dr Miller - Biology, Maths and English Tutor and Editor in Bath

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Polar Bears and Climate Change

Climate change is the rapid increase in global temperatures as a result of human made pollution particularly carbon dioxide from burning fossils fuels. In polar regions the increase in temperature is causing the melting and shrinking of the icecaps. What does this mean to Our Future Planet? The melting of once-permanent ice is already...

Helping the plant that feeds it

Humans are not the only organisms to take in lodgers some plants have ant ‘lodgers’ which acquire a home in return for protecting their host. The Crematogaster, or cocktail ants, for example, live in swollen galls of the whistling thorn, Acacia drepanolobium, and defend their host by attacking insect herbivores and biting browsers such as...

Nutty Geniuses

Another biological article published in The Guardian Squirrels may conjure up an image of an endearing fluffy creature sitting on its haunches and greedily feasting on nuts, reminiscent of Squirrel Nutkin. According to scientists squirrels are also very intelligent, as they have been shown to have remarkable memories. To a squirrel its...

Chilli Hot Birds

This is one of my favourite biological stories which I wrote. It was published in The Guardian. It gives budding biologists an insight into wildlife biology and freelance journalism. Chilli-hot Songbirds Those of you who enjoy eating foods laden with chilli may find birds from the forests of New Guinea just too hot to handle. According to...