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Tag Archives: climate
Cowed by climate change
Image of map of Peru In March 2017, Reuters reported ‘Abnormal El Nino in Peru unleashes deadly downpours; more flooding seen’ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-floods-idUSKBN16O2V5 In the article it also says,”While precipitation in Peru has not exceeded the powerful El Nino of 1998, … Continue reading
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Tagged chavin, climate, el niño, Farming, flood plains, floods, genocide, melting glaciers, Peru, poverty, preventable deaths, rising sea levels
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Obsidian and Power: Part One
One of the most fascinating subjects I personally keep returning to is the area around the Gulf of Mexico and that point in Earth’s history when she was hit by a massive asteroid and the millions of years of global … Continue reading
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Tagged asteroid, atmospheric heat, carbons, climate, hominins, Lapita, Mesoamerica civilisation, Mexico, nomads, Osmec, Pacific Ring of Fire, South Africa, tectonic plates, tribes, volcanoes
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Blueberries for my delight
The health value of blueberries have been promoted and I eat them with relish. Anyone who lives in Scotland is acutely aware that eating such luxury items comes at a high cost. The supply is currently sourced from Peru. Previous … Continue reading
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Tagged blueberries, climate, el niño, global food supply, scotland, sustainable food
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Bats around our cottage
As the winter draws in, Autumn having not been the golden wonder this year, we know our local Bat population will be in a state of near hibernation. Researching this topic, as I do each one I write about in … Continue reading
Insects around me
Living in countryside with no living dwelling within sight of our cottage makes for an interesting life. Day and night we are presented with an array of insects. My favourite book as a child was ‘My Family and Other Animals’ … Continue reading
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Tagged age of fishes, climate, evolution of insects, gerald durrell, nature
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Have gun will kill
Ornithologists do not recognise the pheasant as a UK bird, although it has the most beautiful plumage of any bird resident in these Isles. It was an Asian bird, finally domesticated and brought to Britain by the Romans adding to … Continue reading
Glorious 12th
Yesterday was the ‘Glorious 12th’ and all grouse (lagopus lagopus scoticus ) in Scotland would have been finding themselves the target of many shooters had it not been a Sunday. No game may be shot on a Sunday. From today … Continue reading
Land Use
10,000 years BCE there were around 1 million humans walking this planet. By 1800 AD there were around 1 billion. From Stone Age man, hunting and gathering a wide ranging diet we became farmers, and by 1800 we were dividing … Continue reading
Iapetus Ocean
Drilling to the deepest parts of the Earth as possible has led scientists to infer the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. A period of geological time known as the Archean ( 3.5-3.4 billion years ago) has been studied … Continue reading
