Category: The week outdoors
Today outdoors
July 15th, 2010, 5 Comments
Guardian blogs: Love trumps loss when it comes to the conservation message. Ed Gillepsie’s blogpost touches on an issue close to my heart. We’d all be overjoyed if we destroyed rubbish heaps or the common cold. Why should we care then about destroying the environment? Environmental writers tell us what we’re destroying, but rarely argue for [...]
The week outdoors
July 14th, 2010, 68 Comments
Daily News, Los Angeles: The polluting of L.A.’s groundwater is a slow-motion disaster. Los Angeles’ only groundwater supply is slowly being polluted by toxic chemicals. Within five years, the city could have to look elsewhere for water if clean-up efforts aren’t accelerated, this article says. TreeHugger: Rising Greenhouse Gases Amplify Sea Level Rise in Indian [...]
The week outdoors
July 10th, 2010, 59 Comments
TreeHugger (and others): Glaciers get a coat of paint and their own cool bag. Italian officials have stolen a trick from summer picnickers protecting their gelatos: they’ve covered a melting glacier in something akin to a giant cool bag. TreeHugger reports. A Peruvian inventor has a different solution to a similar problem. He’s painting Andes [...]
Monday in outdoor science
July 6th, 2010, 122 Comments
The Times: Ace Wimbledon weather is set to continue. We’ve already had a hot, dry Wimbledon and Glastonbury, thanks to the Azores High. Now UK wine growers are hoping for a bumper grape harvest too, thanks to the continuing influence of this atmospheric high pressure system. The Azores High sits over the Atlantic Ocean south of the Azores [...]
