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…
Morgan Phillips is organising a meeting to explore “The Environment in Brexit Britain”. It’s in London on 21st March at 1830. You can book here. More detail: “This is a disorientating moment for the U.K. Sweeping change seems inevitable. Immediate concerns dominate the news and our consciousness – health, trade, education, housing, economic and foreign…
The RSPB’s Big garden birdwatch starts today. Last year over 500,000 people joined in.
Here’s PART 3 of the latest round up of recent and relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items issued by the partnership of Natural England, The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom and Historic England on behalf of and for the Strategic Research Groups. This supports the…
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The mammals in question are the quite dissimilar Giant and Red Pandas, and the Economist has a report of a study looking at how these quirky animals evolved. They are both vegetarian carnivores with 6 digits that eat bamboo. Read on …