This is how the most recent blog by Phil Rothwell, the Head of UK Corporate and Public Affairs for The Wildlife Trusts, begins: “Wildlife knows no political boundaries. I was reminded of this recently when I visited archaeological digs at Must Farm and Flag Fen in East Anglia. The finds of fish hooks and the…
So says Indefinitely Wild. The post begins … “Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act requires any construction project “permitted, funded, or licensed by any federal agency” to be reviewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for endangered species present in the area. To the best of our knowledge, Donald Trump has filed no such request for his…
Click here for the latest from the Science Geek who has a recent feature on GPS. This begins: “The Global Positioning System, better known as GPS, has come to affect countless aspects of our daily lives, from directing our holiday aeroplanes to enabling us to drive round an unfamiliar city without any map other than…
Click here to read blogs from the Children and Nature Network [CNN]. These include Stephen Kellert’s REFLECTIONS ON CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCE OF NATURE: Honoring a visionary through his own words and Susan Bales’ GETTING THE URBAN INTO NATURE: New Research and New Thinking
You can read the latest research bulletin from the North American Association for Environmental Education [NAAEE] here. It covers the period from January to June 2015 and offers digests of research under these headings: behaviour / evaluation / teaching methods / sense of place / professional development. ChangeScale has worked with NAAEE and Stanford University to create this…
This animation shows annual temperatures each year since 1880 compared to the twentieth-century average, ending with record-warm 2016. Because of global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases, the maps from the early years in the animation are dominated by shades of blue, indicating temperatures were up to 3°C (5.4°F) cooler than the twentieth-century average. Recent…
Here’s a link to Australian Geographic and its story of harmony between indigenous people and wildlife. The story begins: “AUSTRALIA WAS ONCE home to giant reptiles, marsupials and birds (and some not so giant), but the extinction of this megafauna has been the subject of a debate that has persisted since the 19th century. Despite…
Routledge has announce the publication of: Environmental Education, a major works collection in the Critical Concepts in the Environment series. Its editors are Alan Reid and NAEE President, Justin Dillon. Routledge says: “Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing subject and its multidisciplinary corpus of scholarly literature, ‘Environmental Education’…
It’s time to mark the centennial of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain (on behalf go the Canadians) for the Protection of Migratory Birds – called the Migratory Bird Treaty – that was signed on Aug. 16, 1916. This Treaty, and three others that followed, form the cornerstones of efforts to conserve birds that…
This is a link to the NAAEE website, our sibling organisation in North America (covering the USA, Mexico and Canada). It has strong links with the US EPA: the Environmental Protection Agency. Some of these connections are financial; others are less tangible, but just as significant. It’s a relationship that we in the UK have had…
The Guardian says, take the green news quiz. Here are the first two questions: 1– In February, a consortium of businesses and environmental groups, including Kimberly Clark and Canada’s Globe and Mail, won a 16-year fight to restrict logging in which rainforest? Great Bear, British Columbia Tongass National Forest, Alaska Hoh Rainforest, Washington Mount Hood,…
This is a beautiful book (I could not put it down), as well as being an important work about a very important subject. Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that humans rely on. Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants; their economic contributions are measured in the…