Funnily enough, both whales and washing machines including other household items can help reduce greenhouse gases. I don’t expect anything other than a tiny change. But...
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Who cares more about climate change? The young or the old?
If you have been watching COP26 you should have been impressed by Sir David Attenborough’s speech. The man is 95 years of age. He bounded up...
Continue reading...Dogs have a bigger carbon footprint than cars
COMMENT: It is difficult to believe but according to research scientists in New Zealand, dogs are more environmentally unfriendly than cars because their carbon footprint is...
Continue reading...UK fish industry may be damaged by global warming causing smaller fish
The UK fish industry is in the news because of Brexit. It was a central part of the negotiations. Global warming may make those negotiations seem...
Continue reading...Bitcoin is helping to destroy the environment
If the environment is being harmed then so are animals. And if people are responsible for that harm then this article is about the animal-human relationship....
Continue reading...Reforestation can go wrong: some golden rules for effective reforestation
COMMENT AND NEWS: The desire by governments in any country to reforest their landscape because it has been deforested for commercial reasons is admirable as it...
Continue reading...Is climate change causing failed pregnancies in humpback whales?
A survey has found that the calving rate of humpback whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence off Canada has halved in the past 15 years....
Continue reading...Australia’s quokka’s survival in trouble due to climate change
This is another blow to Australia’s conservation of their small native species. The quokka is a short-tail scrub wallaby, a small macropod about the size of...
Continue reading...Video of koala and joey being released after rescue
She was so excited to get home that she completely forgot about her baby, couldn’t wait for the side to be opened and decided to climb...
Continue reading...Great picture of a giraffe being rescued from flooding in the Rift Valley
RIFT VALLEY, KENYA: This is a wonderful photograph by Ami Vitale working for Save Giraffes Now. It shows a giraffe from the critically endangered Rothschild’s subspecies...
Continue reading...Antonio Guterres has the courage to talk about humankind’s destruction of the planet
Here’s the video. It’s eight hours long so you won’t watch it but he kicks off very quickly with the central issues so you will get...
Continue reading...Boris Johnson pledges millions to improve conservation in England
NEWS AND VIEWS: Although £40 million is nowhere near enough to be pledged by Boris Johnson for green spaces and conservation jobs in England, it is...
Continue reading...Marine mammals deafened by detonation of submerged bombs
Background A huge quantity of live explosives lies at the bottom of the seas surrounding Britain. A lot of them were dumped by German bombers during...
Continue reading...Leaving fish in the sea helps brake global warming
An interesting research paper has recently been published in Science Advances, which is co-written by Gael Mariani, a PhD student at Montpelier University France (he’s the...
Continue reading...Monty Don is slammed for advising that people should not buy peat-based products
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): People in the business of making money from plants and gardening have acted unreasonably and in my honest opinion stupidly in criticising...
Continue reading...Ask China to lead in wildlife conservation rather than negatively criticise them
The Duke of Cambridge was advised to approach China on the issue of wildlife conservation in a positive manner and talk about cultural issues which are...
Continue reading...Limescale in kettles is bad for the environment
Boiling too much water in a kettle because of limescale contributes to global warming.
Continue reading...Weight of Colonel Armstrong Tree
The weight of the Colonel Armstrong Tree is 110 tonnes which is more than they had thought. Previous estimates were 70 to 90 tonnes. Scientist used...
Continue reading...Climate change is destroying the world’s largest living structure
Researchers have said that global warming has resulted in marine heatwaves which has killed half the corals of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia over the...
Continue reading...Double whammy: carbon tax to save the planet and to chip away at UK’s national debt
Rishi Sunak, the UK Chancellor, is preparing to instigate a carbon tax in the UK to raise billions of pounds after we complete Brexit negotiations and...
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