Archive for the 'Environment' Category

Selfish islanders say no to wind farm

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Plans to build one of Europe’s biggest wind farms on the Isle of Lewis are set to be turned down due to selfish and shortsighted protesters. Radio nan Gaidheal, has learned that Scottish Government ministers are “minded to refuse” the 181 turbine scheme. More than 5,000 letters of objection to the proposals were received by [...]

Love Earth

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I stumbled across a brilliant website called ‘Love Earth’, a resource about the natural world. It appears to be based around a BBC World Documentary/Movie called ‘Earth’ (2007). I didn’t spend a lot of time exploring it, not yet, although I will, but everything I looked at was extremely interesting and informative and the photography [...]

Arctic ice melting faster than projected!

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Ummm, quick screenshot of the BBC news websites diagram of this to catch your attention… I know that’s cheeky but I generally try not to crib things, in this case it’s for the greater good. Basically look at that melt!
The BBC news website has reported that scientists have recorded an extraordinary level of melting during [...]