Breaking the Bag Habit
Learn about the problems of single use plastic bags and design a reusable shopping bag to use whenever you go shopping.
Learn about the problems of single use plastic bags and design a reusable shopping bag to use whenever you go shopping.
H&M have announced the €1 million Global Change Award. Do you have a brilliant idea to help make the fashion industry more eco-friendly?
July 2015 saw a landmark achievement in the fight against malaria, with the first effective vaccine getting a positive scientific opinion from the European Medicines Agency.
The picture at the top of this post is my dog, Negura. You many notice that he looks like an idiot. When it’s hot, humans use perspiration (also known as sweating) to cool down, but dogs don’t have many sweat glands. What do they do instead?
This week’s featured activity ‘The Forest Environment’ is all about how forests have changed over time. It will introduce the concepts of deforestation and reforestation.
For this week’s blog we thought we would look at some happy news from the world of forests. Forests are a vital part of the biosphere, containing 80% of all the world’s plants (by mass) and thus playing a vital role in the fight against climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Not […]
This week’s featured activity is all about the plants and animals that inhabit European forests. Conduct a biodiversity survey, discover the types of trees that make up a forest and learn about the other plants and animals that live there
Can you spot the odd one out between the rock cavy, dugong and hyrax?
This week’s featured activity is all about learning about the people that work in forests. There are lots of industries based on forests and woodland, with many people working in this area and dependent on forests for jobs.
Wasps are the scourge of picnics throughout the world and it can hurt a lot if they sting you. Just what is the point of them? We shed some light on the bees scarier cousin…