Chadden Hunter works with gelada baboons in the Ethiopian Highlands and with his colleagues is discovering they are going higher and higher up the mountain - and it's not long before "gelada's might lift off the mountain".
If the Gulf stream is changing then of course I think we all know the implications for that, and I look forward to studying Snowy Owls in South West England, but how long given current speed of changes do I need to wait to at least see them in the winter? UK owl conservationist and PEuT reporter Chris Sperring has sent this blog to you. Owls could be an important indicator of climate change - these are his questions - And read on: (Chris sending down some pics, so come back!)
1) How far reaching was the cold winter of 2005/6, was it the whole of the northern hemisphere, or just part?
2) How much did our (UK) cold winter have to do with a weakening of the gulf stream from the south west, thus allowing air flow from the east to be dominant (do we know)?
3) Or was this a one off to be repeated once in every few years?
UK owl guru Chris Sperring has been watching and monitoring owl populations in Britain for decades and he's surprised by what appears to be "a disasterous year for most UK owl species". More on owls next week.
Chris is going to report for PEuT
Hello all of you - thank you for your blogs. We read them all and in part this series is being informed by you. Here's a basic treatment of the series. We already have some trips behind us (UK & Greenland). We're off to Madagascar, the US, Sweden and the north country of the UK in the next 2-4 weeks, hopefully bringing back new and important stories for you. I'll populate the treatment with specific stories very soon, probably when we're back.
Mary Colwell has written a very interesting article entitled the Pope and the Iceberg which talks about the environment as a moral issue. She argues that faiths and particularly the Catholic faith should take a lead in the subject of global warming and the environment,
Read it
Hello all, were in the midst of a of tropical rainstorm down here in Bristol - here's a guest entry from Mary Colwell who is a is producer on the up-coming series "Planet Earth, The Future" on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 4 later in the year -
I think one of the biggest questions we need to think about is who owns, and has responsibility for, the areas of earth that perform vital functions. I'm thinking of the ice cap where Julian and Gabrielle went to, the rainforests in the tropics and of course the vast oceans. Ice and forest may be under the control of the countries where they are found, but they are vital ecosystems that influence the climate of the whole planet. So is it right and fair that a small country like Greenland should be responsible for its ice cap?
Continue reading "Earths Vital Functions - Guest Blog entry from Mary Colwell"
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