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Donald Trump's company is to pay the Scottish Government £225,000 to cover its legal bills after the US president's firm was defeated in a long-running and acrimonious court battle over a windfarm development near his inaugural Scottish golf resort.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trump-s-firm-to-pay-225-000-to-scottish-government-to-cover-legal-bills-1-5044290
Trump International Golf Club Scotland’s latest accounts, published last month by Companies House, show that it posted annual losses of £1.07m in 2018, marking the seventh consecutive year it had failed to turn a profit. Its cumulative losses total more than £9.4m, and it is reliant on interest free loans from Mr Trump worth £40.6m.
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Nicola Sturgeon: Commit £1 billion in North Sea revenues to zero carbon transition
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/14886/nicola-sturgeon-commit-1-billion-north-sea-revenues-zero-carbon-transition
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'It can kill you in seconds': the deadly algae on Brittany's beaches
Activists say stinking sludge is linked to nitrates in fertilisers from intensive farming
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/08/it-can-kill-you-in-seconds-the-deadly-algae-on-brittanys-beaches
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Dr Kate Baird, University of Arizona Tucson
Water storage in trees
(Velocity of water through xylem, mass of xylem?)
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'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency Islanders are struggling to reconcile impact of global heating with traditional way of life, survey finds Life on thin ice: mental health at the heart of the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/greenland-residents-traumatised-by-climate-emergency
For mental health professionals who specialise in the polar region, the latest survey findings from Greenland will present another red flag for the Arctic’s vulnerable Inuit communities. According to Courtney Howard, the board president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, who lives and works in the Arctic, the intersection between the climate emergency and mental and physical health will become one of the world’s major issues.
Howard said: “Temperature change is magnified in circumpolar regions. There is no question Arctic people are now showing symptoms of anxiety, ‘ecological grief’ and even post-traumatic stress related to the effects of climate change.
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https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill
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https://scenariojournal.com/about/
Scenario Journal is an online publication focused on the next generation of urban landscapes. From planners looking to model urban growth and achieve better neighborhoods, landscape architects designing hybrid natural systems and urban developments, ecologists taking cities seriously as habitats, architects concerned with building performance and street life, to engineers developing more efficient and more public infrastructure, there are many exciting projects taking shape that promise to improve the way our cities perform.
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Carbon-14 [Carbon Dating]
Carbon-14 has six protons and eight neutrons in its nucleus. By contrast, most of the carbon in our bodies and in the outside world, known as carbon-12, has six protons and six neutrons. Crucially, those two extra neutrons make the nucleus of a carbon-14 atom unstable so that it decays radioactively into an atom of nitrogen. More importantly, these decays are relatively infrequent so that it is possible to measure changes in a carbon sample over tens of thousands of years. (See box below.)
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In addition, carbon-14 has been exploited to study plankton and other forms of sea life, revealing how the waters of the oceans circulate in a great interconnected web of currents that sweep round the planet. “The carbon content of a fish will register what it has been eating, which in turn will reflect the chemistry of the surrounding water, which will be influenced by how the ocean has mixed,” says Marra. For good measure, carbon-14 is now playing a major role in uncovering how climates have changed on Earth over tens of thousands of years, work of immense importance as scientists struggle to understand how rising carbon emissions are now triggering dangerous global heating.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/10/most-important-isotope-how-carbon-14-revolutionised-science
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Suspected 'pollution incident' turns River Frome tributary blue
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/10/suspected-pollution-incident-turns-river-frome-tributary-blue
Meanwhile, the UK has become one of the first countries in Europe where people will be able to receive flood alerts on their computer, phone or personal device through the Google Public Alerts map.
Climate crisis: flooding threat ‘may force UK towns to be abandoned’
The Environment Agency said it has been working with the internet giant for two years to design and implement the service, which has been rolled out in the US, South America and parts of Asia to alert residents to environmental emergencies such as earthquakes, wildfires and extreme temperatures.
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How George Peterken helped to save Britain’s ancient woodlands, and his new book – “Woodland Development” ~ by Angus
https://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/reviews-puzzles/how-george-peterkin-helped-to-save-britains-ancient-woodlands-and-his-new-book-woodland-development/
What he can say, however - based on his evidence - is that management generally increases biodiversity. He has compared woodlands which are simply left alone with those which are managed and the more neglected woodlands tend towards a lower species count. Also, he's found that dead wood takes time to build up - virgin forest has about 100 cubic metres of deadwood per hectare and it takes about a century for a newer woodland to build up to about this equilibrium level. In studying the development of a woodland, Peterken advises everyone to follow the advice of the 17th century diarist and sylviculturalist, John Evelyn, and make a written record of what you see. Indeed it was only because of the written record of early recorders in Lady Park Wood - such as Eustace Jones - that George Peterken and others were able to use a 70 year dataset for their study on which his "Woodland Development" book is based.
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Environmental Science, MRes or MSc, University of Aberdeen
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/degree-programmes/84/environmental-science/
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