Henricus Peters reviews Funny bums, freaky beaks and other incredible creature features by Alex Morss & Sean Taylor, illustrated by Sarah Edmunds. Have you ever looked at an animal and wondered if someone had played some practical joke with it – it looks so strange! Certainly, the first ever account of the duck-billed platypus suggested that someone…
Sue Shanks reviews Winter Sleep: a hibernation story by Sean Taylor & Alex Morss This book is comprised of two sections focussing on the topic of hibernation. The first section is a narrative story about a boy visiting his grandmother in winter, following an earlier visit he had made in the summer. He recollects that in summer he…
Share the World – Whether you have been involved in Our Shared World from the start or not, it’s inviting you to go to London on 12th December for a day of: Planning the strategy and activities over the next year Networking and connecting with other members Building appreciation for each other and a sense of community Re-invigorating the network around…
Here’s the latest update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration…
Sophie Roe, writing in The Inkcap Journal has a feature on the botanist Margaret Bradshaw who is 96 years old, “and something of a legend among botanists”. For the last seven decades, she has made an obsessive study of the rare flowers of Teesdale, and there is no one alive today who better understands the…
Here are a few of the COP-related viewpoints from this morning’s The Conversation: COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL; Simon Chin-Yee, UCL – The agreed loss and damage fund was a breakthrough in an otherwise inconclusive conference. COP27 flinched on phasing out…
Here are four contrasting newspaper reviews of the ending of COP27. The Times At least the Cop27 climate change conference in Egypt did not end in stalemate and recriminations. After frantic efforts by officials working beyond the deadline and important concessions by the richer countries, a text was agreed that sets up a fund to…
Voices Heard – In an article for The Conversation, Aoife Daly from University College Cork, says that given how much young people have achieved in the fight against climate crisis it was crucial that their voices were really heard at COP27. . Creative Solutions – In a guest blog for IIED, Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of climate urbanism at the University of Sheffield,…
EAUC, together with Mock COP and the University and College Union, has launched a short film showing how the climate crisis is an education crisis and how it already affecting people in both the Global South and Global North. EAUC says that the film encourages education staff and students to work together to call for…
We’ve covered Ronald Rovers’s views from time to time in our blog. Here is his latest contribution. He covers books he recommends and those he doesn’t. Top very readable books : ( not necessarily in that order….) The Upside of Down – Thomas Homer-Dixon Great book, making connections between problems and tensions in society (…
Steve Hurley writes the Explaining Science blog, and we have featured his work irregularly over the years. He has been writing this week about COP 27 (as he did about COP 26). His post begins: “Over the next few weeks much of the world’s media will be focused on Sharm El Sheik in Egypt, where…
Ava the Bird Girl – Generation Wild is a free nature connection programme for schools in economically disadvantaged areas. Children follow the story of Ava the bird girl, a character who is brought to life during a visit to the wetland centre. They then complete activities back at school and at home to connect with nature and receive their…