Almost 25% of Britons are unwilling to change key habits that would help tackle climate change, an exclusive poll for Sky News suggests.
The survey, conducted by YouGov,asked participants what they would be prepared to do in order to reduce the country's carbon emissions.
While 20% said they would be willing to...
At the end of this entry there is a downloadable pdf with full details of the walk. Due to restrictions on space this is a summary!
This walk starts at the Hardy Monument, G.R. SY615875, a National Trust site. The walk takes approximately 3 hours and involves some moderate walking along recognised footpaths and...
This guide has been written for the use of members of the general public who are interested in the landscape and underlying geology when walking.
This walk crosses the northern side (limb) of the Weymouth Anticline, a dome shaped fold which extends across south Dorset (Weyland – the area south...
As part of a nationwide action volunteers from the Dorset Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill alliance hosted covid-compliant banner drops today calling on Dorset MPs Richard Drax, Simon Hoare, Chris Loder, Christopher Chope and Michael Tomlinson to back the CEE Bill. A banner was dropped by the Clocktower...
The polar vortex isn’t something out of science fiction – it explains why we sometimes get freezing cold weather from climate change.
Although it’s not the type of extreme weather typically associated with climate change, extreme cold is yet another sign of the effects of global warming.
The 2021 cold snaps,...
Brussels – Major concessions to polluting industries under new EU sustainable finance rules, leaked on Monday by Contexte, would stab the EU green deal in the heart, said Greenpeace.
After months of intense lobbying in Brussels, a host of industries – from gas to bioenergy, to aviation and nuclear power – are poised...
Penises are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book detailing the challenges facing human reproduction.
Dr Shanna Swan writes that humanity is facing an "existential crisis" in fertility rates as a result of phthalates, a chemical used when manufacturing plastics...
Following much conjecture which included one theory that aliens had landed, the mystery of the sonic boom that could be heard over much of Dorset on Saturday looks like it has been solved.
It transpires that the sound came from a 'fireball meteor'.
https://twitter.com/simon_sat/status/1373374924597891075?s=20
It was heard in Dorchester and Weymouth amongst...
BCP’s environmental groups in BCP- CAN (Climate Action Network) have joined forces with businesses and other community groups, as well as more than 75 academics, health professionals, community leaders, business leads and private individuals, writing an Open Letter to BCP Council urging them to "act in a manner befitting...
Rishi Sunak has today made a highly anticipated and important change to the Bank of England’s mandate, for the first time instructing the UK’s central bank to align its powerful monetary policy toolkit with the government’s net zero target
In his Budget speech, Sunak announced a new mandate for the...
