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Pete Smith @ May 9, 2008 # 3 Comments
Prepare for more floods. Last summer was the second wettest on record and experts who have studied over 250 years’ worth of rainfall and river flow patterns say we must prepare for worse to come. Professor Stuart Lane, from Durham University’s new Institute of Hazard and Risk, says that after about 30 to 40 [...]
Pete Smith @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
27th January 2008 marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Marsham, the founding father of phenology, the study of the timing of natural events in relation to climate. Marsham is best known for the phenology notes he started making in 1736 on his family estate near Norwich, and continued writing for over [...]
Pete Smith @ December 8, 2007 # 3 Comments
As a student of the Open University, I receive a quarterly copy of the magazine Sesame, “reaching the OU community worldwide”. The Winter 2007 edition flopped through my letter box the other day, snugly wrapped in a plastic bag. Now I’m not usually one to complain, but this struck me as a remarkable waste of [...]
Pete Smith @ December 6, 2007 # One Comment
The use of “bland and ineffectual promotional language” puts organic food at risk of becoming “just another commercial brand”, concludes a study by the Open University’s Centre for Research in Education and Educational technology (CREET). Their report ‘The Discourse of Organic Food Promotion: language, intentions and effects‘ says that retailers and campaigners are failing to [...]
Pete Smith @ November 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Scotsman newspaper tells us that a £6 million, 5-year study is to be launched to investigate how warmer winters and summers, and the changing lengths of seasons, affect crop yields. It is hoped that the research, led by scientists at Edinburgh University, will lead to the development of crops that can withstand the predicted [...]
Pete Smith @ October 8, 2007 # 7 Comments
“A Walk In The Snow, Naked” by lickyoats
A research consortium, led by Professor John Lowe in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded funding of £3m to develop a novel approach for assessing how humans may have responded to rapid environmental changes during the recent past.
A five-year project named [...]