“Bumblebees are mostly threatened by loss and degradation of nesting and feeding habitat.” Richard Comont, Science Manager at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Protecting Bumblebees: The Importance of Citizen Science
Mount Tambora #OnThisDay
On 10th of April 1815 the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history took place when Mount Tambora, Indonesia exploded.
What drove the Norse out of Greenland?
The research team spent 3 years gathering sediment samples from a lake called Lake 578. There were Norse settlements close to this lake.
Scottish Climate Assembly Disappointed At Slow Pace Of Change
“Overall the Assembly is not content with the common response from the Government to our recommendations being that ‘we don’t have the powers’.”
The Laki Eruption of 1783 by Geoff Hellman: Part 4
The second phase of flooding was one of the most disastrous natural events to occur in Central Europe during the past millennium
The Mid-Pleistocene Transition: when glacial cycles changed to 100 ka
Before about a million years ago the Earth’s overall climate repeatedly swung from warm to cool roughly every 41 thousand years.”
Apply Now for Pebble Trust Funding
The Pebble Trust awards grants of up to £10,000 for projects in 2021-22 that contribute to reducing the impact of the Nature and Climate Emergencies.
Opportunities for anatomically modern humans to have left Africa
Key ages of early H. sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans (image credit: Delson, 2019; Fig. 1)
EMEC & Pentland Ferries in Climate Awards
The 2021 awards celebrate the actions and achievements of businesses working towards reaching net-zero carbon emissions.
Apocalypse Soon: Will current global warming trigger a mass extinction?
Changes since the end of the Ordovician: red = extinction rate in time bins; green = the greatest magnitude of change in temperature in each bin; blue- the greatest rate of temperature change in each bin. Grey bars show mass extinctions (Credit: Song et al., Fig 1)
