Just found this amazing image of the UK blanketed in frost and snow.
We don’t get this kind of weather that often in the UK (I’ve heard 1963 and 1982 mentioned) so it is a bit of a novelty. It’s obviously a novelty my local council who seem to have on gritting lorry zooming around ineffectually [...]
Courtesy of the BBC is a potted history of climate change. Naturally this is the anthropogenic timeline and there is far more to the subject, for this it is important to look at the science of the subject.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | A brief history of climate change.
This caught my eye a while back.
The algorithm used by Google to work out rankings for pages has been applied (theoretically) to food webs. the implication here is that if scientists can calculate the state of an ecosystem they will be able to work out whether the system is vulnerable to collapse.
Of course things change [...]
Herbal pesticides have been in use for thousands of years. Plants and herbs also have many medicinal uses and form an essential part of our every day lives.
The National Trust in the process of building a database of trees in the UK. This is quote a big project and there are lots of related links on the web as I’ve been finding.
The BBC have picked it up
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Plan for national tree database.
There are also links to [...]
Have you ever seen any tired looking bees in you garden. Well, the RSPB are suggesting that you help them with a little sugar water.
Of course having plenty of nectar laden flowers in your garden would help too but this seems like an interesting idea. Why not give it a try next time you find [...]
According to this BBC report there are over 80,000 people waiting for allotment space in the UK.
As you would expect the situation is worse in the big cities with London’s borough of Camden offering a staggering 40 year wait. So make sure you put your grandchildren’s names down today.
Apparently about thirty percent of gardeners use [...]
Found this article on the BBC website. Yun-Yun Mao and Shuang-Quan Huang of Wuhan University in China have been researching how flowers have evolved to reduce the effects of rain on their pollen stores.
BBC – Earth News – Raindrops drive flower evolution.
As pollen is essential to flower reproduction it’s essential to protect it and it [...]