Archive for climate change

Plant a tree in your garden to combat climate change

  Trees are wonderful for the environment. They not only look beautiful, they also help to combat climate change. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air and store the carbon in their trunks, roots, leaves and surrounding soil. A fully grown tree can absorb around 21kg of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year. Trees can also […]

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Spring 2019 arrived in November 2018

The Woodland Trust’s Nature’s Calendar project has received over 64 records of early spring activity that started in November 2018 – including insects that have been spotted active up to 5 months earlier than normal. Mild weather seems to have temporarily disturbed insects from hibernation. A small tortoiseshell butterfly appeared flying outdoors on Christmas Day […]

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