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NHM defends collections move after scientists raise concerns
The Natural History Museum (NHM) has defended its decision to move some of its collections to a new research facility at Reading University after criticism from scientists and academics. The museum is creating a research centre at the university’s Thames Valley Science Park in Shinfield, Berkshire, where it will rehouse around 28 million specimens and…
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The National Education Nature Park: how to get involved
Launched in October with the Natural History Museum and the Royal Horticultural Society, the National Education Nature Park offers children and young people the opportunity to take hands-on action to improve biodiversity and tackle climate change. Schools, colleges and nurseries that sign up will have access to a range of resources including digital tools, classroom…
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Science & Tech Spotlight: Ocean Warming
Science & Tech Spotlight: Ocean Warming | U.S. GAO Skip to main content Fast Facts The ocean is storing much of Earth’s excess heat. The resulting ocean warming contributes to problems such as rising sea level, ice-sheet melting, and coral bleaching. This Spotlight report covers these and other issues, including effects on coastal communities and…
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How Earthquakes Helped Us Map the Interior of the Sun
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Sun is a giant sphere of plasma. Temperatures at its core exceed 10 million° C, and they drop to about 5,500° C at the surface. Densities at the solar core are also extreme, reaching more than 20 times the density of solid iron.…
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Martin Entz looks to change the future of farming as inaugural Jarislowsky Chair
November 30, 2023 — Martin Entz’s love of agriculture was first nurtured in his early years spending his summers at his grandparents’ farm. “I remember cultivating fields when I was a teenager. I saw the cultivator turn over the soil and wondered about how it all worked. I thought how do soils interact with plants?…
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A radical solution to address climate change, with David Keith (Ep. 124)
Show Notes Climate change can feel like an impossible crisis these days. Every week there is some new report about the irreversible damage we’re doing to our planet and the havoc it will bring to people’s lives. We all know cutting emissions is the solution, yet governments and companies seem no closer to meeting the goals that scientists say…
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Nature Heroes
Scotland’s creel fishermen are determined to reduce the entanglement of whales and basking sharks in their gear. Nature Heroes – 30 November
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Why Wildfires Are Burning Hotter and Longer
In 2023, wildfires ravaged communities in Canada, Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz The 2023 United Nations climate change conference, known as COP28, begins today in the United Arab Emirates. A new topic on the agenda this year is how wildfires are emerging as a serious health risk not just to…
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Aquarium of Niagara CEO leaves to head Buffalo Museum of Science, Tifft Nature Preserve
Samantha Christmann Gary Siddall, president and CEO of Aquarium of Niagara, will leave the institution to become president and CEO at the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the cultural institution that manages the Buffalo Museum of Science and Tifft Nature Preserve. Keith Lukasik, chair of the Society’s board of managers and co-chair of the executive…
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Iris Van Herpen’s New Exhibition At The Musée Des Arts Décoratifs In Paris Is A “Cerebral Wonderland”
Although it is said that humans can never out-create nature, Van Herpen shows a determination to do so, but with a certain mortal humility rather than artistic hubris. “When it comes to the intention and the effort and the love that goes into something, then I think that humans can be as good as nature,”…