Posts Tagged "environment"
Algae sparks safety fears for Big Swim
Over 9,000 entrants told by text to await new date after safety fears for event in Lake District Britain’s biggest wild swimming event has been postponed at the last minute because of safety fears about blue-green algae in lake Windermere. More than 9,000 entrants for the Great North Swim have been told by text to stand down from the event, which had been expected to attract at least 15,000 spectators to the Lake District. Organisers are hoping to reschedule the swim before cold weather makes it impractical this year, with hundreds of thousands of pounds of charity sponsorship at stake.
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Algae sparks safety fears for Big Swim
Rooms at the top
Treehouse holidays are going up in the world, but the new Treehotel in Sweden’s Lapland, with its futuristic pods, aims to soar above the rest, says Rhiannon Batten Towards the end of his 2008 documentary, The Tree Lover, which explored the link between trees and people in Sweden, Jonas Selberg Augustsén says: “Imagine being here on the veranda on a summer evening, or listening to the rain on the roof with the stove purring quietly.” As he says this he’s sitting in a treehouse he’s spent the summer building, looking out over a wide tract of pine forest with a river flowing in the distance, reflecting a sinking sun.
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Gardening by balloon at the Eden Project
A tethered balloon enables gardeners at the Eden Project in Cornwall to reach the top of the canopy in the rainforest biome so they can prune fast-growing trees
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On camping and connecting in a California wilderness | Sasha Abramsky
Seeing my daughter grasp the scale and beauty of nature made the pre-dawn chill, sore back and broken sleep all worthwhile At about 4am, after hours of being unable to sleep; of shivering in the cold mountain air – despite going to bed fully dressed and with a wool hat pulled down over my ears – and trying to silence my crying kids who kept waking up and whimpering in the chill; of futilely attempting to find a position on the air mattress that didn’t send my lower back into spasms; of listening to sounds that might or might not have been a bear sniffing around outside our tent, I finally couldn’t stand it any more.
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Jellyfish sting hundreds on Costa Blanca beaches
Biologists blame climate change and overfishing for attacks along coast near eastern city of Elche A vast flotilla of small, virtually undetectable jellyfish have stung hundreds of people on Spanish beaches this week – an event swimmer’s nightmare biologists say will become increasingly common due to climate change and overfishing.
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Jellyfish sting hundreds on Costa Blanca beaches