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Outdoor Daily III

  • by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 11/01/202114/01/2021
  • Appreciation

Can you tell an oak from a chestnut, wild cherry from a beech or ash and a holly from a hazel, by just looking at the bark? How about the difference between young and mature […]

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Outdoor Daily II

  • by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 18/11/2020
  • Appreciation

What’s the colour of tree bark? The same as the colour of rock: lichen and moss.

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Outdoor Daily II

  • by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 08/11/2020
  • Education

New life! We’ll before oaks shed their last leaves, acorns are preparing the next generation. A lesson in sustainability to all of us from the scale of families and education, organisations and businesses to political […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 30/05/202030/05/2020
  • Appreciation

A mighty beech tree. Shelter. Shade. And more than meets the eye. Its trunk populated by lichen and moss, habitat for invertebrates, food for insects and birds… Roots in symbiosis with microorganisms. Detritus feeders and […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 02/05/2020
  • Appreciation

This morning, I noticed the extravagance of the black walnut tree flowers in the early morning light. The Woodland Trust website informs me that the male (drooping) and female (red clusters) flowers appear in May-June […]

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Carbon footprint

  • by Dr 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 […]

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