Posts by Kashmi Ranasinghe

A top-down view of a round, polished piece of yellow amber on a white background. There is a small weevil trapped in the amber, but details are too small to make out. Light can be seen reflecting from the rounded surface of the amber.

Weevils in amber reveal ancient ecosystems

100 million-year-old weevils trapped in amber are helping piece together earth’s ecological past.

Floating bacteria

Nature’s cleaners: the little helpers treating mine water

Capturing a mining site’s tiny, yet complex microbial community, and putting it to work to ‘clean itself up’, could bring a revolution in water remediation efforts.