Notebook from the North

For a bit of a change this week, I thought that rather than looking at a particular issue or concept, we could give a bit of a spotlight to an Arctic creature. Polar bears get all the media coverage, and reindeer get lots of love each Christmas, so I thought we could take a look Read more

I love it when two words are shoved together to create a very accurately descriptive new word, which is why I’m committing to calling this podcast/blog a plog. I held off before because plogging is already a thing (jogging and picking up plastic along the way), but words can have two meanings right? Anyways, I’m Read more

After last week’s discussion on knowledge and respecting other cultures and ways of thinking, I thought I’d go for something a little more juvenile this week- poo! Now, most people can see the enjoyment in watching ducklings quacking away on a lake, or bear cubs rolling around play-fighting in the grass, or even finding rare Read more

Becoming academically trained in natural sciences can takes years of hard work and even once you’ve got your little piece of paper saying you’re qualified, there’s always so much more to learn throughout a career in research. It seems natural then that scientific research about the environment should be done by trained scientists, and so Read more

Various forms of life on earth are united by one particular need, this being the need for energy. For many creatures, this is done through a wonderful biological process, one of my favourites in fact. This is eating… On land we can look at a basic example of a food chain, which shows how energy Read more

The polar regions of the planet have got a lot of attention in past years, with news stories showing various polar bears on various shrinking bits of ice, and Sir David Attenborough narrating about how hardy penguins tough it out through icy storms to raise their fluff-ball babies. Containing some of the earth’s most fragile Read more