How I became a human plague – and stumbled into one of the most astonishing scientific stories I’ve ever encountered.
Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of people. A super-spreader has been identified. Important as this finding is,...
Eco-friendly staff at Dorset Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) are turning over a new LEAF – quite literally. They have been driving a Nissan LEAF electric car on loan from Westover Nissan in Bournemouth for the past year. Now the Chamber – the voice of business in Dorset...
Dorset Council has brought together its new Climate Change Executive Advisory Panel for the first time.
The panel was established following the declaration of a climate change emergency at Dorset Council back in May. It will work in partnership with organisations across Dorset to develop its climate emergency plan for Dorset.
With a cross-party membership of...
The aftermath of the government voting down an amendment to the Environment Bill saw a number of claims from the media and opponents, and counter-claims from MPs defending their decisions. Some of these could do with clarification or correction.
Claim #1:“Tory MPs vote to allow water companies to dump raw...
A new feature length adventure-documentary film is coming to Dorset for the first time since it’s official release earlier this year. In the film an international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is lurking...
I want to tell you about a great opportunity coming-up at Thomas Hardye School Theatre in Dorchester. On the evening of Friday 17th November up to 150 film goers with an interest in sustainability will gather to watch the new feature length documentary A Plastic Ocean with special guests. It’s...
The Sun’s mass is approximately 1,988,550,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg. Which is equivalent to about 330,000 Earths. Most of the Sun’s mass is hydrogen (about 73%) and helium (roughly 25%). The rest is made up of heavier elements such as oxygen, carbon, neon and iron. Despite it taking up 99.86% of our...
Dorset Council (DC) has published the first draft of their Climate and Ecological Emergency strategy online, ahead of the document being discussed by councillors at the Place Scrutiny meeting on 23 July.
Since the Council declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency back in May 2019, teams of councillors and officers have been working...
