Cetti’s warblers go north

Much excitement has been caused by the first ever confirmed breeding of Cetti’s warblers at our Leighton Moss nature reserve in Silverdale, north Lancashire. This little brown bird is only started...
Early birds but no worms?

You won’t find many birds telling you climate change isn’t happening. In a report by the BTO, new evidence is revealed that shows a range of birds are now laying their eggs earlier in the year...
From evidence to policy - why so slow?

Guest blog by David Christian Rose, PhD student University of Cambridge, http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/rose/ Devastating floods in southern England, destructive storms in the Philippines, massive...
State of Nature and climate change

State of Nature , a scientific collaboration of 25 UK conservation organisations, saying that our species are in already trouble, my thoughts turned to consider how climate change might be part of that...
Science to shape our views

There’s a lot of noise from the climate sceptics at the moment, as no doubt you’ll have seen. I’m confounded by the dismissal of science and hard information as we build and shape our views, activities...