Environmental issues

Butterflies and Moths Matter! Here’s How You Can Help Them…

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Butterflies and Moths are fascinating, other-worldly, fluttery creatures. As it’s now summer in the Northern Hemisphere, you should be seeing them around flowers on sunny days, particularly butterflies. If you’re lucky. I say ‘lucky’, because butterfly and moth populations, like many invertebrates and other species on this Earth, are in serious decline. Besides being pretty

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Climate Change isn’t everything: We’re talking Planetary Collapse. Let’s fix it.

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The phrase “Climate Change” gets bandied about a lot. But what does Climate Change mean? As a result of human activity on this planet, we’re seeing increased storms, floods and droughts – and they are bigger and more devastating. Global temperatures, especially in the oceans, are increasing, and polar ice caps are melting, which means

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5 Ways to Save the Earth in Your Own Back Garden

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There’s a lot of talk lately about climate change, environmental destruction and ecological collapse, and how we’re all doomed if we don’t change our lifestyles. Have you noticed how much of this protest is directed at governments and leaders? Sure, their views and actions are important, because they make the laws which protect natural habitats,

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Here’s How to Save Hedgehogs

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Hedgehogs, those cute, spikey critters are under threat. There should be millions of them across the globe, but their populations are shrinking fast. What can we do to help Hedgehogs survive? We need to make our gardens and parks and common spaces hedgehog-friendly. Keep your garden and other natural areas litter-free. Hedgehogs and other wildlife

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Environmental Fiction: Can Stories Really Save Planet Earth?

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Environmental Fiction isn’t new. “Environmental Fiction” also known as “Eco-Fiction”, and its sub-genre “Climate Fiction” or “Cli-Fi”, is a relatively new distinct genre of literary fiction, focusing on stories of human beings interacting with the natural world and causing environmental problems and ecological crises on planet Earth (and sometimes beyond). I say ‘relatively new’, but

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Author Interview with NFReads.com

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NFReads.com, a general interest website based on authors and their expertise, began as a place dedicated to learning. Always a good reason to start anything! It now contains a wealth of author interviews and articles about all sorts of topics, across 20 categories, including: Sylvia Engdahl – Multi-award winning science fiction author, early Cold War air

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Write a Story to Save Elephants – Kids’ Writing Workshops at Waterstones

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If you’re wondering what to do with the kids this April, why not bring them along to Waterstones in Welwyn Garden City on Wednesday 17th April? I will be running more of my popular Kid’s Writing Workshops – this time “Write a Story to Save Elephants“. We’ll be looking at all the situations where elephants

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‘Elephants Matter’ Eco-Worksheets and Poster

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Elephants – an important part of the great web of life – do matter! But they’re having a tough time, thanks to humans. Poached for ivory, culled, hunted, suffering from habitat loss, captured for zoos and circuses, caged or confined as working animals… Find out more about the struggles of elephants, and why we need

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Elephant Extinction – Does it Matter? (52 Ways to Save the Planet)

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I love elephants. I’m in awe of their huge size, their intelligence, their community spirit, their fierceness, their grace, their extreme care for each other, their strength, their resolve, their beauty, their elephant-ness. But I’m also very worried. I’m scared that one day, soon, too soon, there will be only a handful of elephants left…

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Prep Your Plastics! 52 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet Series

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It’s not new news. Plastics are everywhere – all around us, as waste and litter, and in our minds, thanks to lots of recent plastic pollution awareness campaigns. And we’re all trying to reduce, reuse and recycle our plastic bottles and other plastics responsibly, so less rubbish ends up lying around or ending up in

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