Sometimes my job involves flying to distant places and for my recent trip to Panama for the sail training charity Seas Your Future, I sought to find out about the fuel consumption and carbon footprint for different routes…. Read More
The future of your (grand)children will be shaped by the fate of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Three hours of blowing bubbles among the coral reefs around Bocas del Toro gave me plenty of time to take in beautiful impressions of a rich ecosystem and questions about its long-term survival.
I’m on the Dutch tall ship Regina Maris in northwest Panama to work with students and staff of Students without Borders Academy on behalf of Seas Your Future. Yesterday we set sail towards the bay of Blue Fields,… Read More
Call me a nerd (I’m doing that all the time) but there is something beautiful about the coming together of superb engineering and design to create a gadget that does what it is meant to do, simply, efficiently… Read More
My first close encounter with pollution emanating from the abandoned mines in England’s Southwest occurred in the mid 1990s, when research for my undergraduate dissertation brought me to Restronguet Creek in the Fal Estuary. A former tin mine… Read More
Sharks, rays and skates are fascinating creatures and we are losing them at alarming rates!
Half of the oxygen that sustains life on Earth is produced in the ocean…
Once more, I joined the sail training tall ship Pelican of London for STEM at SEA education voyages with Sail Training Ireland youngsters on board. We have a little more time than usual in Dublin and we make… Read More
Now here is a thought: Fishy breath, trampling and carnage are good things (in the right context).
A new treaty to protect the oceans has been agreed upon by the United Nations after more than a decade of negations and a marathon of talks in the last few days. If ratification can be achieved, the… Read More
I recently travelled in the Caribbean for Seas Your Future and here is my attempt to figure out my additional carbon footprint of this trip.
Challenging Habitat 