Category: Historical

June Sightings

June 5th.  At breakfast time, noticed a very large ship going down Channel.  It proved to be the MSC Zoe (which with several sister ships)

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May Sightings

And so the cool, dry spring continues without much prospect of change until towards the end of May… May 6th and during the evening there

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Tallest Wave Ever Recorded

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/six-storey-high-wave-sets-record-says-un-160527273.html Six-storey-high wave sets a record, says UN agency 13 December 2016. The UN’s weather agency on Tuesday announced the highest wave on record –

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Watch the short accompanying video in the link below! http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-the-arctic-seed-vault-designed-to-save-humanity Inside the Arctic Seed Vault Designed to Save Humanity From Extinction. Written by MOTHERBOARD, November

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Concern Over Mediterranean and Climate Change

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6311/465?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=6311issue-8699 A warming limit for the Mediterranean basin. Pollen cores from sediments provide rich detail on the history of vegetation and climate in the Mediterranean

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Nest Box Origins

Nest boxes originally served a very different purpose!  Clay ‘nesting pots’ were introduced to England by Dutch labourers working in the Fens.  They hung these

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