A guest post from Stuart Blake, Director of the Locharanza Centre, on the survival of the Locharanza Field Studies Centre Continue reading
Category Archives: Features
To fry or to freeze?
Professor Bill McGuire explains some of the geological effects of climate change, following his recent London Lecture at the Geological Society Continue reading
Door 21: Where’s Willy – The Last Chapter
Door 16: Where’s Willy – Part 3!
Door 12: Where’s Willy – Part 2!
Door 8: Where’s Willy – Part 1!
Door 6: O Christmas tree!
Confronting the fracking furore with facts
A guest blog from Paul Younger, Professor of Energy Engineering at the University of Glasgow* Shale gas fracking is not really my fight: I do not have (and never have had) any vested interests in the industry’s success or failure in the UK or elsewhere. Indeed, a resurgence of cheap gas would be inimical to … Continue reading
On the edge of a Massive Massif
I have lived in south-west France for 8 years, while completing several British university degrees, mostly around earth sciences and environmental studies – hence my semi-professional and unreservedly enthusiastic geological interest. Castres is famously ‘rugby country’ (at least amongst us aficionados); otherwise, these last ramparts of the Massif Central are little known, even by the … Continue reading
Earth’s Climate Evolution – a Geological Perspective on Climate Change
A guest post from Colin Summerhayes, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Before we can understand how humans may be changing the climate, we need to establish a baseline. We have one in the geological record of past climate change. Continue reading
