Challenging Habitat Blog

Carbon Neutral before 2030

This week’s top priority is climate change, carbon footprint reduction, sustainability, mitigation… …and for me, it should be my own climate target!

Want to reduce uncertainty? Read on…

We all know that life is full of uncertainty and most of the time, we don’t notice it too much, let alone worry about it. We’re used to it.

Earth Day

Today, 22 April 2021, is Earth Day. Everybody (well, almost, or not even that) is in on it: The Independent reports on Greta Thunberg’s criticism of US fossil fuel subsidies, The Telegraph sports the ’10 best sustainable beauty… Read More

Arsenic Health Risk at UK World Heritage Site

Would you encourage your children onto a playground you know is heavily contaminated with arsenic? Most probably not! But the public is encouraged to use the heavily arsenic contaminated grounds of Devon Great Consols mine near Plymouth (UK)… Read More

Challenging Habitat

Let me take you to an excursion to the origin of this blog: I started writing about my thoughts on mining and its legacy in the UK and beyond. I wrote about the soils contaminated by metal mining… Read More