Challenging Habitat Blog

What? Not enough CO2 ?

There is too much CO2 in the atmosphere. There appears to be not enough CO2 in industry, at the moment. Perhaps the question how to get the suppliers of CO2 back into production, so that carbonated beverages and… Read More

World Ocean Day at the University of Plymouth

At the University of Plymouth, we will celebrate World Ocean Day with a conference for schools that showcases our expertise in marine research and technology in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Our exciting programme of talks covers… Read More

Expedition supports Antarctic Science

The next Austral summer (2021/22) will see a rare man-hauled expedition across the Antarctic Peninsula. The expedition team will be ‘dropped off’ at Portal Point, haul equipment up steep slopes and cross the Forbidden Plateau (my question is:… Read More

This is haunting!

Sperm whales are even more intelligent and organised than we knew, which makes it even more sad and outrageous that we hunted them to near extinction and some of us still do. Read the ‘easy’ version in the… 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