Already before coming to Terceira Island, I was brooding the idea of trying to photograph all the bird species of the island. This turned...

This post is about being powerless against climate change. It is going to be a short post. A few weeks ago a friend visited the Azores...

This is another delicious and easy recipe that will make you very popular among your friends. What you need is: - 2 eggplants - 2 eggs -...

Easy to prepare, cheap, and very tasty, eggplant carpaccio is what will make your dinner with friends brightening. Instead of bringing a...

If you read my previous post (#8) on climate change you know that I am very worried about it, and by the way, you should be too! Many...

The world’s major problems are often directly or indirectly related to environmental issues of anthropogenic origin. The status of...

In this post, I am going to share some suggestions about how to photograph the northern lights (aka aurora borealis). I had the luck to...

A friend of mine has recently got her license as a naturalistic guide, which I believe is a beautiful job because it enhances the...

I have always been an avid reader. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up surrounded by books, but they attract me like a magnet attracts...

The reasons why I am grateful to my PhD supervisor are countless. He was not only supervising my research and helping me to write papers,...

It’s time to go back to topics that I consider useful for others. It may well be an illusion, but you never know where the average...

In this post, I am going to tear apart my self-imposed 1-page and useful-topic-rules once forever; it clearly cannot work in my blog. I...

The idea of writing a blog never allured me. Keeping a blog requires writing posts with a certain frequency, having always something...

Although during my BSc I studied natural sciences in Sicily, most of my fieldwork experience during my PhD was spent in maize, wheat, and...