Biology – Paul Noël

Charle Darwin’s abominable mystery

Posted January 2022

The mystery about how angiosperms, flowering plants came about. All these years later and we still don’t know but scientists are still working on it. One day one or more of them will come up with the answer, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55769269.

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The life of bees, feral and managed

First posted on the 20th of January 2021. Our pollinators are still in big trouble.

A new study of feral and managed bee colonies in Pennsylvania by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Services looked at how the two types were affected by pathogens. A fascinating read, https://phys.org/news/2021-01-feral-colonies-clues-honey-bee.html.

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Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years

First posted in June 2018 and since then the situation has got far worse and will continue to do so while we increasingly burn fossil fuels.

Changes to our environment appear to be accelerating and their effects will have far ranging consequences. With species not being able to move or just not move quickly enough the changes will probably also accelerate species extinction.

Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years

For an excellent source of information on what’s happening to ice be sure to look at Zach Labe’s website, https://zacklabe.com/, or find him on Twitter.

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If only bees could tell their tale – and they have

First posted in January 2021 and suffice to say that our pollinators are still very much in danger.

We are changing this world in so many ways and in some cases we haven’t got so much historical data to go by to see how much change is taking place. Thankfully, due to a PhD study on the feeding habits of bees in 1952 it was possible to repeat the survey in 2017 during another PhD research study to see what had changed. The data extracted shows how the landscape of the UK has changed in those short few decades, https://phys.org/news/2021-01-honeybees-reveal-floral-landscape-years.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55662985. Bees along with many other pollinators are suffering because of intensive farming and the increasing use of pesticides. Something that we should all be worried about.

I became interested in bees due to my wider interest in environmental change to human activity. So far I have written two stories for the 8-12 year old reader on the adventures of bees that face similar problems to real bees. In the first story, Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow (two versions), https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/198320384X/, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/, the bees need to stop some greedy farmers building on their meadow. In the UK we have lost 97% of our meadows since the middle of the 20th century. Then in the follow up, Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/, the bees have to solve the problem of a nearby farmer using banned pesticides. Although for younger readers a few adults have said that they enjoyed reading them too.

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UK Government Extremely Slow in Dealing with the Plastic Peril Killing Our Oceans

First posted in 2018 and surprise, surprise, the useless Tories are still in power and need to be permanently removed.

In an article in the Business section of the BBC, Theresa May, or perhaps she should be called Mayhem Theresa, has stated that the government has a target to ban “avoidable” waste by 2042. What nonsense, an empty statement, the government and the oceans will all be very dead by that year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44600378#