Sharing news about all domains of earth and life sciences, this is the page of the School of Natural Sciences at Akkadium College. All are welcome!
06/10/2019
UPCOMING EVENT: Northamptonshire, UK
Jennifer Anderson, Akkadium College Director of Studies for Wildlife, will be giving a talk on birds of prey at the Thrapston branch of U3A on Friday 18th October.
All are welcome, and there’s a £2 fee on the door for non-members.
See the U3A newsletter for more details about this exciting event, ‘Hunters in the Sky’.
http://www.thrapstonu3a.co.uk/newsletter.pdf
03/10/2019
State of Nature 2019 - National Biodiversity Network The State of Nature 2019 Report on wildlife reveals that 41% of UK species studied have declined, 26% have increased and 33% shown little change since 1970.
02/10/2019
Did a large meteorite hit the earth 12,800 years ago? Here’s new evidence Could platinum-rich dust associated with the impact of a very large meteorite have contributed to major climatic change and extinctions 12,800 years ago?
27/09/2019
Sampling the Deep | Dr Kirsty Kemp Sampling the Deep | Dr Kirsty Kemp The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name...
26/09/2019
Museum Of Lost Species Last summer, Linnean Learning visited the Green Man Festival in Wales to showcase the Museum of Lost Species. This fictional museum contains the life stories of different species that have become exti
26/09/2019
‘Rauisuchian’ material from the lower Elliot Formation of South Africa and Lesotho: Implications for Late Triassic biogeography and biostratigraphy ‘Rauisuchians’ are non-crocodylomorph pseudosuchian archosaurs that played important roles in terrestrial Triassic ecosystems. Because they are genera…
24/09/2019
Climate Crisis and the Classroom: Becoming Sustainable Learners BY: LOUISE EVANS, undergraduate student, University of Glasgow As Greta Thunberg sails the Atlantic in support of the no-fly movement, we are made increasingly aware of the threat of the ecological breakdown to our planet. However, speaking about the climate crisis becomes a difficult topic to na
12/09/2019
First day of dinosaur extinction recorded in rocks at asteroid impact site | Imperial News | Imperial College London Researchers probing the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs find evidence of wildfires and tsunami in the rocks at ground zero.
12/09/2019
Defra to review release of game birds after legal threat Government agrees to examine impact of shooting industry’s release of 50m non-native birds
11/09/2019
Badger cull in England extended to ‘unimaginable scale’ Ministers approve culling in 11 new areas, with 64,000 animals likely to be killed this autumn