Article: Geology made simple - or don't get your gneiss in a twist.

Article: A fond farewell to the boffin ; In a lively new history, ...
Evening Standard - London;  January 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey (HarperPress, Pounds fe) TOWARDS the end of this compendious ... book no less a natural history than his earlier Trilobite Richard Fortey admits that many of his former colleagues at the Natural ...

Article: NATURE IF MANKIND NO LONGER EXISTED, HOW WOULD NATURE CLEAN UP ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The World Without Us BY ALAN WEISMAN VIRGIN, pounds 20, 275 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 We are all, as that old Scotsman on Dad's Army proclaimed with relish, doomed. The question remains exactly when that doom might arrive. The average lifetime of a species is about a million

Article: Delicate pieces of history locked in a timewarp; Trilobite! ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  May 12, 2001 ;     574 words ...Byline: Monica Foot In his preface, Professor Fortey, somewhat uncontroversially, admits that 'three hundred million years of history' - the timescale covered by geologists - 'is bound to be more of a precis than a narrative.' His previous bestseller, Life, described how animate forms had been

Article: The slowest waltz: in an edited extract from his book The Earth: ...
Geographical;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Since the Earth formed some 4.5 billion years ago, it has been in a constant state of flux. The movement of tectonic plates conspires to cause the Earth's surface to dilate and collapse, the seas to rise and fall and the continents to move. It has created the continents and oceans that we know

Article: THE HUMBLE HEDGE SPARROW HAS A SEX LIFE AS EXCITING AS THAT OF ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ...You won't find any mention of 'our feathered friends' in Colin Tudge's survey of the Class Aves. That perky robin sitting on the garden fence watching you dig the garden, for example, is really there because he thinks you are a boar - apparently his friendly habits arose from following wild pigs to

Article: EARTH: AN INTIMATE HISTORY/O: THE INTIMATE ...
The Village Voice;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... histories, bigger can be better EARTH: AN INTIMATE HISTORY By Richard Fortey Knopf, 48opp. $30 O: THE INTIMATE HISTORYOFTHEORGASM ... 4O3pp. $24 THE EARTH MOVED Going from Richard Fortey 's account of the mnage trois between geology ...

Article: The Earth: an Intimate History.(Book Review)
Geographical;  May 1, 2004 ;     672 words ...The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey HarperCollins, hb, pp480, 25 [pounds sterling] Richard Fortey has a bit of a knack for sexing up science for the lay person. This time he's taking his readers on a spectacular journey around ...