Skip to main content

Posts

Meet Twiggy

  Four new films look at the work of the Environment Agency to develop natural flood management schemes.  📢 Announcing our four NEW animated films developed with @envagency to spread the word about natural flood management (NFM) 🎉 Meet Twiggy from the film 'Wood you believe it' below and watch the rest of the films here 👇 https://t.co/SRl1IBb4kw (1/4) pic.twitter.com/bXqQnMekTi — CumbriaWildlifeTrust (@cumbriawildlife) October 28, 2024 We need to slow the flow. Storms which cause flooding in homes and businesses have increased in Cumbria in the last decade. Peatlands hold large amount of water and during periods of high rainfall they can both hold back water and also slow the flow of the water coming off the hills. Damaged peatlands cannot hold the same amounts of water, and areas that contain drains actually speed up the flow. This means that, during high rainfall events, water isn’t held back and released slowly but flows immediately into rivers, increasing the flooding r
Post a Comment
Read more
Recent posts

Forgotten Landscapes

  A StoryMap on forgotten woodlands and the clues they leave in the present day. Coilltean Caillte (Gaelic for 'Forgotten Woodlands') is a partnership project that has mapped over 15,000 Scottish place-names that suggest the presence of woodland. Many of the names appear in areas of ancient woodland, but others lie in open ground. Could these be the locations of long-forgotten woodlands? Forgotten Woodlands: Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area's past and inspire its future potential https://t.co/52PytVsdqS — Benjamin Hennig (@geoviews) October 28, 2024 Read more here. 
Post a Comment
Read more

600 posts

Another small milestone for another one of my blogs... closing in on 200 000 page views too. A reminder that this blog was set up to support and add additional details to those teaching about landscapes, and in particular the Distinctive Landscapes topic of the OCR 'B' specification. The book is probably a little out of date now if I'm honest, and some of the ideas that were originally 'brand new' have since become common, or been appropriated by others... but it's still worth a look. Still available for purchase.
Post a Comment
Read more

National Parks turning 75

As National Parks turn 75, a new report highlights only 6% of their land is recorded as being in good health for nature - with the Yorkshire Dales having less tree cover than York and waterways across these special places heavily polluted by sewage released from storm overflows. pic.twitter.com/efHAHoGqdj — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) April 9, 2024 Biodiversity: just 6% of national park land in England and Wales is being managed effectively for nature, say campaigners. https://t.co/tZ620wBL99 — Brian Groom (@GroomB) April 9, 2024 Here's one of my images of the Peak District... near Strines Image: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license on Flickr.
Post a Comment
Read more

Isostatic rebound

Back in the 1980s, isostatic rebound was very much part of my 'A' level teaching, with a bit of eustatic adjustment thrown in for good measure.  The idea was that as glacial periods ended, the melting of thick ice sheets released pressure on the ground, to the extent that the ground started to rebound and rise up again. This story explores research into the possible impact of a river on the world's highest mountain. Connections and geomorphology explored in an interesting story.
Post a Comment
Read more

Norman Ackroyd RIP

  I was sorry to hear this evening of the passing of Norman Ackroyd on Monday: one of our very greatest landscape artists. He was a remarkable printmaker and artist . He shared the laborious process of making his etchings in several documentaries. Listen to this programme with Robert MacFarlane. RIP the great artist Norman Ackroyd (1938-16.09.24): etcher-magician who conjured weather & light from metal & acid; his work constitutes one of the great visual records of this archipelago’s edges. We travelled together—& I made this programme with him: https://t.co/Y5licHxpcP pic.twitter.com/8bQDR95Fph — Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) September 18, 2024 Here's the first part of a documentary on his method featuring some of his art...
Post a Comment
Read more