Bombs are raining down on Ukraine, and our government is using it as an an opportunity to take us back to the dark ages.The pressure to wean ourselves off Russian oil and gas could supercharge the transition to renewables. Instead, Boris Johnson is pushing for more UK oil production...
Work to build new sustainable transport infrastructure on Wimborne Road West and Leigh Road has now completed and the 2.3km stretch of new walking and cycle paths and crossings are open and ready for use.
It is the first project to be completed as part of Dorset and BCP councils’ Transforming...
In 2017 Parkstone Golf Club applied for, and received, a felling licence from the Forestry Commission and in 2018 cut down a number of trees across the course.
The council advised there had been a breach in the normal council’s procedures, as some of the trees were subject to a...
WiFi operates in the 2 to 5 GHz range - part of the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is in the same part of the spectrum where cell phones operate so I may refer to WiFi or cellphone electromagnetic radiation interchangeably. These are radio waves - no...
Has humanity just became even more meaningless?
The laws of physics demand that we cannot see through a black hole's event horizon; it is fundamentally impenetrable. Even light cannot escape it.
But in a new study, a physicist from the University of Michigan has proposed a technique to do just that,...
A coalition of investors, who own the Camborne constituency office of Environment Minister George Eustice, announced today that they have donated all of his rent so far to the Insulate Britain campaign.
In the run up to the Extinction Rebellion protests at G7 in Cornwall in June 2021, the group...
Cuadrilla is to plug and abandon two shale gas wells in Lancashire following orders from the government's industry regulator, it confirmed in a statement.
Cuadrilla's parent company AJ Lucas said the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) had ordered it to permanently seal the two shale gas wells drilled at the...
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab.
We now know that it’s...
A single flash of lightning stretched across the sky over three US states, setting a new world record.
The lightning bolt extended 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.This beat the old record of 440.6 miles set in 2018.
Also in 2020,...
The rocks seen on this section can be seen by walking from Poole Head eastwards. The Sandbanks area has no exposure due to buildings and the underlying geology is Palaeogene (Tertiary) Parkstone Clay. The aerial picture below shows the Sandbanks Peninsula the Studland Peninsula and Shell Bay in the foreground. The low...
