Laura Cole
Dieback down under: threatened mangroves in Australia
May 02, 2017
Published in
Oceans
A massive die-off of Australian mangrove forests is being attributed to the El Niño weather system
Rock of ages
May 01, 2017
Published in
Discovering Britain
For this month’s Discovering Britain viewpoint, Laura Cole heads to Kingston-upon-Thames to find a piece of sarsen stone with a lot of history
Sulphur breath: tracking the emissions of volcanoes
Apr 12, 2017
Published in
Climate
In a new report, researchers have calculated the global emissions of sulphur dioxide caused by volcanic activity
THE HOUSE OF OWLS by Tony Angell
Apr 02, 2017
Published in
Books
There are a few strange ways to describe a group of owls, a ‘parliament’ being the most popular and undeniably the most endearing. In the case of The House of Owls, Tony Angell’s new book, however, ‘a stare’ might be more appropriate. The eyes of the screech owl on the cover follow you around the room, eerily, with one pupil dilated and one not
India’s Ganges and Yamuna rivers recognised as living entities
Mar 21, 2017
Published in
Water
Following the recent success of New Zealand’s Whanganui river, India’s Ganges river and Yamuna river become the second and third in the world to be granted the legal rights of human beings
City of Trees: saving Sheffield’s greenery
Apr 03, 2017
Published in
Discovering Britain
For this month’s Discovering Britain, Laura Cole travels to Sheffield, which claims to be the UK’s greenest city
Belly of the beast: energy from the earth
Apr 01, 2017
Published in
Energy
Icelandic engineers are attempting to harness the powerful geothermal energy of magma
Desert discs: solving the mystery of Namibia’s ‘fairy circles’
Apr 11, 2017
Published in
Deserts
For decades, scientists have been divided over how these eerily perfect circle arrangements are formed in the Namibian desert
Wolf cubs arrive in Devon as part of rewilding strategy
Mar 16, 2017
Published in
Wildlife
Wolves have arrived at a wildlife park in Devon as part of ongoing campaign to rewild parts of the United Kingdom
Research Blog: the Tropics and El Niño
Mar 14, 2017
Published in
Forests
Was last year’s El Niño a practice run for future climate change? In this introduction to an upcoming series of online blogs for Geographical, Laura Cole shadows the University of Oxford’s Global Ecosystem Monitoring Network and its work to discover the impact of the world’s most well-known weather phenomenon on the planet’s tropical forests
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