Bryony Cottam
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How shifting wind speeds could affect renewable energy and the oceans (opens the original)
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By the 2010s, a worrying trend had caught the attention of climate researchers. Land-based weather stations across the mid-latitudes were recording a persistent, mysterious slowdown in near-surface wind speeds, a phenomenon dubbed ‘terrestrial stilling’. Research led by French climatologist Robert Vautard revealed that, between 1979 and 2008, surface wind speeds across North America, Europe and Asia had declined by roughly 5–15 per cent. At the time, Vautard and his colleagues theorised that thi
The £20 phone camera that could predict volcanic eruptions (opens the original)
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On 3 April 1991, US missionary Sister Emma Fondevilla, who had been living in a village of Indigenous Aeta people on the flanks of Mount Pinatubo, set up a meeting between residents and scientists from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). A few days earlier, Fondevilla and the villagers had noticed steam streaming from vents on the northwestern side of the mountain, accompanied by a strong smell of rotten eggs. It was 73 days before a colossal eruption would begin.
Review: The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn (opens the original)
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A place of yearning and fear, conflict and discovery, the wilderness is a slippery idea – hard to define, hotly contested, often out of reach, perhaps even a mirage. Author Cal Flyn, an award-winning writer whose previous book, Islands of Abandonment, was a Sunday Times bestseller, describes it as a ‘powerful, ancient concept, which lies at the intersection of landscape, philosophy and ecology. It is a place where the human is brought into confrontation with all that is non-human, and is challen
On The Ground: Diary of a Whistleblower (opens the original)
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For a decade, Rob Forrester has been the unnamed source of dozens of news stories exposing neglect of the UK’s rivers. This year, at the end of a Channel 4 docu-drama, ‘Dirty Business’, his identity was finally revealed. This is On The Ground, a new podcast from Geographical, written and hosted by Laura Cole. In this series, Laura will be getting out from behind her desk and on the ground, reporting from across the UK’s landscape – and speaking to the people changing it. England is a world anoma
Is the tide turning on industrial fishing in West Africa? (opens the original)
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There was a time when sardinella, a small, silvery pelagic fish that forms the backbone of the Senegalese diet, was abundant in West Africa’s coastal waters. Today, like 57 per cent of Senegal’s fish populations, sardinella stocks are in a state of collapse. The consequences for the country’s small-scale fishers have been dire, with job losses and an alarming rise in food insecurity leaving communities facing increasingly difficult and dangerous choices. In response to the crisis – and warnings
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