A List of Environmental Specialists
More than 50 interesting and unusual names for environmental specialists and experts in the natural world from acarologist to zoologistContinue Reading
More than 50 interesting and unusual names for environmental specialists and experts in the natural world from acarologist to zoologistContinue Reading
Forest cover varies hugely across Europe, from 74% in Finland to 11% in the Netherlands. Overall, 46% of Europe is covered with forests, storing 172Gt of carbon.Continue Reading
Two UK government bodies responsible for the care of trees and forests have released a new tool to illustrate projected climate change for anywhere in Europe.Continue Reading
This is the title of a guest blog that I wrote for BMC, part of the Springer group of academic publishers, published today. Continue Reading
People in Britain have less trees than in many countries, but within the country 34 million citizens have even less due to inequality in woodland distributionContinue Reading
Are you a Musketeer, Team Player, Funambulist, Existentialist or Realist? Discover your own ECOTYPE and find out how you compare to others in this exciting new measure of environmental citizenship.Continue Reading
Which tree is out in leaf first near you – the ash or the oak? Don’t let Covid-19 get in the way of some good citizen science.Continue Reading
The UK Department of Environmental Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a policy discussion document as part of their stakeholder engagement process in developing the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM or ELMs). Government is seeking the views of farmers, foresters, and other land managers in its new proposals forContinue Reading
Regular readers will know that I support the ethical search engine Ecosia, which plants trees around the world, using funding raised by people using its alternative offering to some of the better known search providers. This Thursday, 23rd January, all Ecosia searches will help plant trees in Australia. It will use 100%Continue Reading
I was inspired to write the poem You People after following a one-sided vitriolic ‘debate’ on Twitter last year. Continue Reading
Thanks to a clever idea by scientists at the University of Reading, you see how much average temperatures have risen where you live as part of an international campaign to highlight the importance of climate science. You can then ‘show your climate stripes.’Continue Reading
Nestling among the barren wilderness of Dartmoor is one of three rare wild woods. Piles Copse is a woodland mainly comprising pedunculate oak Quercus robur. The trees, festooned with mosses and lichens, are rich in biodiversity. It is an English rainforest, and a relic of woodland which once covered much of the hilly region.Continue Reading
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