Droughts and flooding rains: what's due to climate change?
Droughts and flooding rains: what's due to climate change?RenewEconomyAnd it is here that we can zero in on the changes that the scientists have been mostly concerned with, and have mostly been talking about. Changes to autumn and winter rainfall in the Mediterranean climate regions of Australia can have large impacts.and more »
Public art venture to raise money for urban farms
Public art venture to raise money for urban farmsNECNThis year, about 26 people are participating, mostly refugees from Myanmar, formerly Burma. About a dozen of them are growing specialty vegetables to be sold at existing city farmers markets. Last year, refugee growers sold at specialty produce markets ...
Syrian monodrama mocks Assad reforms
Syrian monodrama mocks Assad reformsAFP... mostly Syrian expats, have been receiving "Spring Sonata," a one-man show mocking Syria's promised programme of reforms in the face of an uprising with tears and applause. The monodrama, inspired by Ingmar Bergman's 1978 film "Autumn Sonata," tells ...and more »
Alex Clare Confirms Autumn UK Shows & Tickets
Alex Clare Confirms Autumn UK Shows & TicketsStereoboard.comInternet sensation, South East London born Alex Clare, has announced two UK shows for the autumn. Singer-songwriter and composer Alex Clare has been involved with many different bands over the years, playing instruments, providing backing vocals and ...
Government plan to 'imprison' buzzards a 'scandalous waste of money'
Government plan to 'imprison' buzzards a 'scandalous waste of money'Telegraph.co.ukEvery year millions of young pheasant 'poults' are raised in pens and then released into the countryside for shooting in the autumn and winter. Buzzards are scavengers that rely mostly on carcases of rabbits and birds but will also prey on poults and ...and more »