MikeB
Farmers should be aware that if one of their cows chases and kills a hiker or tracker walking across their property on a bona fide right of way they are exposed to a claim for compensation which might be as high as hundred thousand pounds …
China is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, producing 12.7 billion metric tons of emissions annually. That dwarfs U.S. emissions, currently about 5.9 billion tons annually and the US is bad. Despite being scientifically-minded I believe in karma as it is based on common sense. …
It’s been known for some time that wind farms kill birds. Various ways to protect birds from wind farms have been devised one of which is to paint one aerofoil black (see below) which you can read about by clicking on this link. But the …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Greenwashing is becoming or has become an important part of large commercial organisations. If they can’t genuinely make their products more environmentally friendly at least they can present the idea that they are environmentally friendly to the greater public through advertisements and …
Certain organisms, plants and fungi are underrepresented in emojis and the error needs to be rectified in order to help promote nature conservation fully according to a team of Italian biologists. The team analysed the available emojis from the emoji library curated by the Emojipedia …
The standard of manufacturer of American sweets is lower than in Great Britain. There is a worrying development in Great Britain because you might have noticed that there are many American candy stores dotted around the country particularly in London where, frankly, they’ve been outlawed …
I’m told by Jim Sanderson and Patrick Watson (Small Wild Cats) that in 2005 scientists found that cats lack one of a pair of proteins which are needed to sense sweetness. And the missing protein was because of the loss of a part of a …
In The Times today, there’s an article with the title, “Four meals away from anarchy”. It jogged my memory because I watched a film yesterday, Leave the World Behind, which is currently in the news media and which stars one of my favourite actresses, Julia …
OPEC is the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. It’s an umbrella organisation speaking on behalf of oil producing countries which have formed an oil cartel to protect their businesses. And is become abundantly clear at Cop29 that they refuse to give up oil production …
