This is a post for the USA as I think this would be too long a journey to the UK for        Bill Cook. Bill’s Company Gorilla Services serves no less than 50 States in the USA. This is what Bill writes about his company- Gorilla Service Industries is a contract cleaning expert for residential jobs, [...]

This headline - Summer Promises to be a Scorcher-, was a recent offering in the Daily Express. This got me thinking again – dangerous! If there is a scorcher of a summer there will almost certainly be an increase in the ocurrence of skin cancer.  To illustrate just how dangerous hot sun can be, consider this.  [...]

Recent dead donkey in the London Evening Standard.  Sea horses are back in the Thames. Maybe this doesn’t thrill you, but it does me.  150 years ago the Thames smelt so much from sewage and dead animals that Parliament had lime rinsed cloth hung over the windows to try to kill the smell. Cholera was [...]

Back in 1980 I used a report about female whelks growing growing male attributes and being unable to breed. The culprit was in the special paint used to stop barnacles sticking to the hulls of boats. I you want to know more. Please leave a message. The problem now is that birds go rooting about [...]

I have just picked up the News that China is about to build 97 NEW AIRPORTS. At the end of September 2007 at the Reuter’s Environmental Summit it was reported that China had signed up to to get rid all ‘old’ light bulbs and change to low energy bulbs. (They shouldn’t have a supply problem, [...]

Total found guilty for 1999 oil spill A French Court has ordered French oil giant Total to pay 192 million Euros in damages for the sinking of the oil tanker Erika. The judge also established a precedent. The right to compensation for environmental damage.

Until our local butcher sadly died recently I was paying 80p per 1lb for fresh sausages. The environmental health people had tested them and found that they were 95% meat. This was also local, free range organic meat. This was a disaster for me because I am fussy about the sausages I eat and like [...]

I just came across a copy of Metro, the free newspaper. Metro puts a diiferent slant on the Bali Conference issues. The headline – Rich Nations Spend More on Suntan Lotion than helping poor countries tackle global warming. Under this they showed a harrowing picture of poverty. The caption – A mother and child separate [...]

We can’t manage to do it ourselves, but can plants do it for us? Pollution-Busting that is. Plants take in Carbon Dioxide to use it as a constituent of their food, so are already helping to lessen the effects of Global Warming. That’s not all they can do though. One of the most common contaminants [...]

This is presumed to be because of pollution. (please see my article). You may well have seen or heard this frightening news. Is there a solution to their problem? Not in the near future I fear. The diet of coastal dwelling Inuit depends on blubber from seals. Seals eat fish. Fish eat plankton and detritis, [...]