Eerily beautiful: crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf – Drone Footage
Brunt I’ve Shelf has now calved: read more in the BAS press release.
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This feels like full circle: lesser celandine is back in flower. Back in April, during the first lockdown I wrote about this bright little flower before…. …and we’re still in lockdown. It feels like a […]
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Damp, windy, grey, then heavy rain… perhaps not the ideal day for Valentine’s in lockdown, when the only legal way to be together is outdoors moving along at a 2 m distance? I’m generally not […]
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Cold weather rewards: I love those little towers of ice extruded from the soil during a mild frost. I say ‘extruded’ because they are all topped with a little crown of soil (or an acorn), […]
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Today, I walked past the field in the Tamar valley – a route I have taken many times. Today a sight deeply disturbed me: a stand of mature trees in the middle of the field […]
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A sunny day and I’ve been peering into my pond, watching the most amazingly weird life form… …a transluscent tube, between 7 and 12 mm long, with central rod looking like a gut, but that’s […]
Astronauts are experts in isolation, here’s what they can teach us
Here is an interesting article from the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/astronauts-are-experts-in-isolation-heres-what-they-can-teach-us-153334
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I’m fascinated by lichens, so many shapes and colours, hanging on to so many substrates, present in most climate zones and habitats. Most amazingly (today, for me), they are living the perfect team: different talents […]
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Here and Now What better role model of this mindful principle than your dog? Eyes, nose, ears, body, motion, breath, terrain – all as one – one experience. No thought of yesterday, no dream of […]
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The winter canopy of the little stands of woodland trees we planted in 1996. Not that long ago and already strong and tall, providing habitat for birds and insects, bats and more, storing carbon, producing […]
