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.
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.
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 [...]