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 [...]
I’m browsing the Earth Observatory pages at NASA, sparked off by another Twitter user.
I thought this image of a fuel fire in Puerto Rico which happened in October 2009 was interesting. It shows the area affected by the incident which in the picture is about 140km long by 15km wide.
Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in [...]
Was the trip to Copenhagen worthwhile for all the nations that took part?
Well, yes it was. Kyoto was a beginning, a start on the path towards working out some solutions to the problems caused by man made pollution. In Copenhagen the aim was to go further and include everybody in the collective responsibility for dealing [...]
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.
Justin Rowlatt is a BBC journalist who was assigned the task of finding out the links between our diets and the effect we have on the world around us in this blog post http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/11/a_diet_to_save_the_world.html
It’s interesting, though not highly scientific, and it does make a few of the links that we often miss when thinking about [...]
Between 7th and 18th December 2009 delegations from 192 countries who are party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be gathering to further the discussion and initiatives first laid out in the Kyoto Protocol. The purpose of the meeting is to make a new treaty on climate change, it is [...]
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 [...]