If you think giant pandas had it bad, spare a thought for the tiny parasitic mites that live in the pores of the skin on our faces which may be destined for an evolutionary dead-end, according to a new analysis of their DNA.
More than 90% of us host the...
East Dorset Friends of the Earth (EDFOE) is marking the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Declaration of June 16th 1972 with a plea to local politicians and MPs to redouble their efforts to tackle environmental imperatives.
EDFOE spokesman Dr. Martin Price says: “It is now 50 years since the world...
If you are planning a new build, an extension or conversion of your home, then the changes to the building regulations are important.
Building regulations make sure that any work done on a property is up to a certain standard.
From 15 June changes to the nation-wide regulations aim to improve...
Caroline Dennett, from Weymouth, Dorset spent more than a decade as a safety consultant working with frontline employees at oil company Shell.
What prompted her to make a very public resignation from working with the company and urging others to follow suit?
The resignation email:
Following this very public resignation the...
Brownsea Island is the largest of the islands in Poole Harbour and is owned by the National Trust (NT). As a result the island is relatively unspoilt and undeveloped compared with its close neighbour the conurbation of Poole and Bournemouth! In the picture below you can see Brownsea Island in the centre of the picture with...
Purbeck has had a successful stone industry for centuries and continues today with a number of active quarries. The Portland and Purbeck limestone of late Jurassic and early Cretaceous age (140-150 million years old) is exploited for example at Swanworth Quarry and Keates Quarry near Worth Matravers and Langton Matravers respectively. The stone...
Our aim is to make the UK a cleaner, greener place for everyone to enjoy. That’s why we’ve created our biggest ever beach clean campaign: the Million Mile Clean. We’re mobilising 100,000 people each year to get out there and protect the areas they love.
Beach, street, river or mountain,...
Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber....
We knew they were all lip service in public but carry on denying in private. Now we know that those who pay for their denial are winning and that short term economic wins are more important to them than long term survival of planet Earth and humanity.
This patriarchal bullying...
Last year the world set "alarming" new records in four key tests of climate health, a United Nations body has warned.
The tests were greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification.António Guterres, the UN chief, described the latest World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report as a "dismal...
