Category Archives: Climate change
JUSTIFIED OR TOO SENSATIONALIST?
This video from campaigning group Plane Stupid has just been released in UK cinemas. Grim viewing, which younger children might find upsetting, even if you tell them it’s all done on computers. I’m not letting my 11 year old see … Continue reading
Filed under Climate change, Ecology (political), Videos
CLIMATE THREAT TO BIODIVERSITY
October 2007 You’d never have guessed – climate change can have terrible effects on biodiversity levels! This study from York looks back in time at previous periods of rapid climate change and the impact they had on the planet. (It wasn’t good.) BBC … Continue reading
Filed under Climate change, Conservation
NEANDERTHALS AND US
February 2007 An article in PNAS confirms that traces from Homo sapiens and H. sapiens neanderthalis are intermingled at the Chatelperron site in France, strongly suggesting that the two types of human met and interacted at the site. What finally did for the … Continue reading
Filed under Climate change, Human evolution
CLIMATE CHANGE CHANGES CURRENTS, AND ANIMALS
February 2007 It looks like climate change may also have devastating effects on life within the ocean. This BBC report outlines how changes in wind patterns can cause huge “dead zones” on the ocean bottom.
Filed under BBC, Climate change, Oceans
CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS MOBILE SPECIES
November 2006 Future changes in the global climate could have a catastrophic effect on highly mobile or migratory species, warns a UN report here.
Filed under Climate change, Ecology (political), Extinction
