Challenging Habitat

Environment – Sustainability – Health – Society

Skip to content
  • Home
  • about this blog
  • me
  • Food!

ecology

What do they feed on under 900 m ice and 500 water?

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 16/02/2021
  • Antarctica

Surprising that there is life at all…check out the amazing story of sponges, tube worms, stalked barnacles and other sessile creatures on a rock 500 m beneath the base of a 900 m thick ice […]

Read More

Darwin200 day 6: plankton under the microscope

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 25/08/202004/10/2020
  • Appreciation

We’ve been riding out gale Francis in the shelter of the Firth of Clyde and filled the morning with a microscope session comparing plankton net samples (53 um) from the estuary of the Mersey and […]

Read More

Darwin200 day 5: Welcome to Scotland!

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 24/08/202004/10/2020
  • Appreciation

We arrived in Scotland after a cracking sail under a starry sky to a beautiful sunrise. And just after anchoring off Stranraer, a grey seal surfaced next to the Pelican to be admired by all. […]

Read More

Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 20/06/202023/06/2020
  • Appreciation

What beautifully delicate white flowers! Fit for a bridal bouquet, if it wasn’t for the toxicity of its sap. This is the flower of Heracleum sphondylium, Hogweed. Roots, stems, leaves and flowers – all toxic […]

Read More

Carbon footprint

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 14/02/202004/03/2020
  • Antarctica

Having booked my flights from Europe to Ushuaia in Argentina, from where my Antarctic adventure will start next year, it is time to look at my carbon footprint for this journey. A search on the […]

Read More

You take care of what you love, don’t you?

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 30/09/201917/02/2020
  • Education

For a change, something really positive here… We are the business of inspiring young people to be curious and ask quesitons, to get into nature and experience the small and big wonders of it, to […]

Read More

First Arrivals

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 25/07/201603/09/2016
  • Epiphytes

  If epiphytes were people, we would call them clever strategists. I guess this holds true for any organism that manages to occupy a hostile corner, but I am fascinated by life forms that grow on toxic […]

Read More

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Outdoor Daily III 01/03/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 28/02/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 27/02/2021
  • Eerily beautiful: crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf – Drone Footage 27/02/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 26/02/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 25/02/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 24/02/2021

Recent Comments

suedentley on Outdoor Daily III
Outdoor Daily III |… on Water for Wildlife
Laura Denise on Outdoor Daily III
Charlotte Braungardt on Outdoor Daily III
suedentley on Outdoor Daily III

Archives

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 240 other followers

Disclaimer

This (https://cbraungardtdotcom.wordpress.com) is a personal blog and the product of my experience, research, conversations and, quite possibly, occasional mistakes. If you read and use information from this blog, then it's at your own risk. Unless credited with a citation, I only publish my own images and words, so please note that I hold the copyright for all the material and you cannot use it to reprint or publish without my written consent. Now and then, I might change the topic of my musings, edit previous posts, or even change my mind - I consider this a natural consequence of having an open mind.

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Other reads

  • Outdoor Daily III 01/03/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 28/02/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 27/02/2021
  • Eerily beautiful: crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf – Drone Footage 27/02/2021
  • Outdoor Daily III 26/02/2021

Recent Comments

suedentley on Outdoor Daily III
Outdoor Daily III |… on Water for Wildlife
Laura Denise on Outdoor Daily III
Charlotte Braungardt on Outdoor Daily III
suedentley on Outdoor Daily III

Archive

Categories

  • agriculture
  • Air Pollution
  • Antarctica
  • Appreciation
  • Arctic
  • beauty
  • biodiversity
  • Brexit
  • Calendar
  • carbon footprint
  • Consumerism
  • Education
  • Epiphytes
  • Europe
  • exercise
  • filming
  • food
  • fun
  • gratitude
  • happiness
  • health
  • history
  • Impaired Mobility
  • language
  • Learning
  • lichen
  • love
  • mental health
  • mining
  • Mining Industry
  • Mining waste
  • Natural succession
  • nature
  • ocean
  • Personal Development
  • policy
  • pollution
  • Really Seeing
  • resilience
  • Rivers
  • science
  • SEA the Future
  • Society
  • Soil
  • STUFF
  • Sustainability
  • Waste
  • water
  • weather
  • wellbeing
  • wildlife

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×