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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 2 – bees and disease
argylesock says… Here’s the second of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’m passing on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, bacterium, bumblebee, conservation, data, deformed wing virus, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, emerging disease, fungus, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, mite, miticide, Nosema ceranae, parasite, pesticide, pollination, research, scientist, Varroa destructor, Varroa destructor virus-1, vector, virus
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What’s happening as the world gets warmer
If you don’t believe in climate change, you might as well not bother reading what I’m about to say. You might live long enough to find out the hard way. In fact, the evidence is sure already. We know climates … Continue reading
Knowing what’s on the land
The Global Land Cover Network (GLCN) exists to bring together all that’s known about what’s covering the land, everywhere there is land to be covered. This very ambitious project involves the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and others. … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer
Tagged climate, data, development, Food and Agriculture Organization, food security, land use, map, planning, sustainable, vegetation
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Big Garden Birdwatch 2014
Originally posted on Green Living London:
Pic: RSPB More than half a million people are expected to be watching their garden birds the weekend (25-26 January), for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. It’s the biggest wildlife survey in the world…
Posted in ecology
Tagged amphibian, bird, birdwatching, conservation, data, frog, garden, hedgehog, mammal, research, vertebrate, wildlife
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Wind and rainfall data 29 to 30 December 2013
Originally posted on Official blog of the Met Office news team:
As forecast gales and heavy rain are again affecting the UK. Below you can see the highest gusts of wind and rainfal totals recorded at Met Office observing sites…
Posted in weather and climate
Tagged climate, data, flood, Met Office, rain, weather, wind
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The climate change scorecard
argylesock says… The time for denial has gone.
Posted in knowledge transfer, weather and climate
Tagged climate, data, history, weather
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A new invader to eat rice plants?
The Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) for Britain doesn’t list apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata and P. maculata) as invasive species, but perhaps it should. Apple snails are aquatic. They spread when there’s flooding, when they cling onto larger animals or onto … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged alien species, America, apple snail, aquaculture, Asia, crop, data, farmer, flood, gastropod, heliculture, herbivore, invasive species, map, mollusc, nematode, parasite, parasite transmission, pest, pet, plant_monocot, rice, roundworm, snail, vector, waterway
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DON’T PANIC — The Facts About Population
Hans Rosling is a great communicator. Here’s his documentary about human population. Our world reached ‘peak child’ around 2000 because people are using more birth control. Now children aren’t dying so much as they used to. Therefore the world’s population … Continue reading
Posted in food, human health, statistics
Tagged child, contraception, data, human, population
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Butterflies in Britain, summer 2013
Lewis at woodlands.co.uk announced the results of the Big Butterfly Count for summer 2013. Here’s his blog post about it. It’s good news on the whole. This confirms a report of conservation successes for some kinds of insect and some … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged arthropod, butterfly, conservation, data, indicator species, insect, lepidopteran
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