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Green Issues, Science, Conservation & Gardening - Dorset West

Sometimes it takes a threat to our own neighbourhood, our own county or country, before we wake up to what is happening across the world.  It will take food shortages before we accept that industrial farming is gradually killing the soil that all life, bar marine life, depends on. ...
Student activists, Ida and Lily, talk with their local MP and the UK Environment Minister, George Eustice, and ask what he is doing to tackle climate change and his thoughts about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. To find out more, visit talkingclimatecornwall.earth Ahead of the upcoming G7 Summit...
Dr. Andrew Stevenson, surgeon - qualified 21 years. “The burning of fossil fuels used to be for the advancement of human society. It is now the mechanism of its destruction. If we don’t leave oil in the ground. Our children and those forever more will have no future. Stop...
An Organisation to help Residents and Business improve the West Bay Area by Working closely with the Local Authority Members will have an interest in the promoting the well being and conservation of the West Bay Area. Full members (afterwards called Members) with voting rights will have a residential or...
Plants and flowers look beautiful in the great outdoors, but they're also a fantastic addition to your interior design too. If you don't have a green thumb, don't worry. There are plenty of plants that require little attention or light to thrive. We’ll help you decide where plants will...
The UK is even less prepared to deal with climate change already hitting the country than it was five years ago, thanks to a "failing" government response, its own independent advisers have warned. In a damning report published today, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said government action to improve the...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is pleased to support the establishment of a new, collaborative way of farmers working together in Dorset: ‘The Brit and Hooke Facilitation Fund’, where farmers and landowners in west Dorset will discuss land management, farm business and wildlife conservation issues, plus opportunities arising from Brexit....
Activists from Animal Rebellion and local groups of Extinction Rebellion held the sit-in from noon on Saturday in St Marys Street Weymouth branch.  Branded a McSit-in, they occupied areas of the restaurant for 2 hours.    Catherine Cannon, (43), a local climate activist at Saturday’s sit-in, said: “McDonald’s needs to transition...
Let’s leave the tawdry ambitions and vain-glorious antics of our politicians, and look at the bigger picture. In fact, let us look at the biggest possible picture – why is the Universe expanding at the rate we measure? We are all taught that Universe started from a point, and that...
Campaigners against a new oil well near Puddletown in Dorset are celebrating after the applicant withdrew their application. The site just north of Athelhampton had been proposed by South Western Energy Ltd for 20 years of oil production, which would have released millions of tonnes of carbon emissions. Objectors raised various issues...