The Arctic currently has hundreds of wildfires stretching across northern Russia, northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Greenland. It’s strange to think that one of the coldest places on the planet is on fire, but it is! Fires are not unusual in … Continue reading
Last week the keepers at London Zoo were busy counting their 17,000 animals, as part of the annual headcount. Knowing numbers is vital within the wild too, but counting animals on the plains of Africa is more challenging. Traditionally wild … Continue reading
As I talked about in my last blog, this week I’m attending the Ocean Optics XXII Conference in Portland, Maine in the USA. I arrived last Thursday and spent the weekend at a two day pre-conference meeting entitled ‘Phytoplankton Composition … Continue reading
