The asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago also caused 45% of plants in what is now Colombia to go extinct, and it made way for the reign of flowering plants in modern tropical rainforests.
The Rise of the Flowers
Plant Focus: Gorse
Gorse is important for invertebrates.
Plant Focus: Marsh Marigold
It is a widespread flower of ponds, marshes, damp meadows, ditches and wet woodland and is a conspicuous spring flower.
Plant Focus: Butterbur
What to look for when out walking.
Dancing Roots
New time-lapse videos capture something that’s too slow for our eyes to see
How flowering plants may have regulated atmospheric oxygen
“Ultimately, the source of free oxygen in the Earth System is photosynthesis, but that is the result of a chemical balance in the biosphere and hydrosphere that operates at the surface and just beneath it in sediments. “
‘Tipping Point’ in the Earth’s Biosphere Only 2 Decades Away
The Earth’s ability to absorb nearly a third of human-caused carbon emissions through plants could be halved within the next two decades at the current rate of warming.
Binscarth to Wasdale: Foraging The Old Road
Megan Taylor (Wild Orkney Walks) took us on a delightful virtual walk from Finstown up to Loch Wasdale as part of the Orkney Foraging Fortnight.
A Virtual Walk Foraging Plants
Naturalist and Conservationist Dan Puplett took us on a virtual walk on Saturday 29th of August as part of the Orkney Foraging Fortnight.
More Nature Notes
“Nature surprises me, again and again. “
