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. Read More
Climate Matching Tool Launched
Do environmental worldviews and distrust in science affect those who care for our land?
This is the title of a guest blog that I wrote for BMC, part of the Springer group of academic publishers, published today. Read More
Inequality of Woodland Distribution across Britain
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 distribution Read More
Discover Your Environmental Self
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. Read More
Ash or Oak?
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. Read More
Environmental Land Management policy development
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 for ELMs, publishing a ‘Discussion Document’… Read More
Search to help forests in Australia
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% of its profits to help… Read More
You People
I was inspired to write the poem You People after following a one-sided vitriolic ‘debate’ on Twitter last year. Read More
Show Your Climate Stripes
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.’ Read More
An English Rainforest
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. Read More
Valuing Oak
If we look at the utility of trees in a new light, and through a new lens, we may be surprised by what we can see and what we can value. Among all trees, the oak is perhaps best placed to gift us a renewed sight. Read More
How many trees per person per country?
Did you know that Canadians have more trees to enjoy per person than Russians, or that Brazilians have half as many trees per person than Australians? I hope you enjoy my interactive global map below which shows the number of trees per person per country, right around the world. But first, here are a few headlines. Read More
