Ocean – Paul Noël

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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Clever Dad and the Pirate Ship

This story can be purchased for the Kindle and devices that run the Kindle app from Amazon and they also sell an A4 Print on Demand story and coloring in book. We sell it as a pdf on our website, www.junagarhmedia.co.uk, for PCs, Mac and tablets that have a pdf reader. We have now got copies of the A4 story book as well.

Clever Dad builds a pirate ship, so that his son Tristan can sail the seven seas on the promise that he will be a good pirate. Tristan is captivated once the ship is complete and his father starts to tell him a story but he, using his imagination drifts off in his own tale of the high seas.

Once sailing along he meets different characters, the first of which is the Easterly wind that suggests he goes to Polysneezia, a pleasant island that the wind will help him reach.

He lets the wind take him in the direction of the island and he relaxes until he meets a group of flying fish who tell him not to go there because of pirates digging for treasure. He is told that they are digging so many holes that the island might sink. Horrified, he asks the advice of the Easterly wind and decides that he must try to help even though he has been warned by the flying fishes.

Tristan encounters other characters on his way to Polysneezia that give him their opinion on whether to continue or not. Knowing that the island is in trouble he presses on determined to help. Will Tristan be able to save the island from the dastardly pirates.

The suggested age range is 4-8 years. For younger readers the books are meant to have a parent, family member or guardian read to them.

Guardian article on plastic pollution

Good article from the Guardian on how we will never be able to recycle our way out of the plastic that surrounds our everyday lives. We never needed it in the past so why now? Because it is convenient and it will take strong governments to tackle these issues. As micro plastics are found in our food chains and may even be accumulating in our bodies we must act now.

Plastic pollution of our one small planet

Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years

Scientists Call For Action to Prevent Right Whales’ Extinction

I came across this article today. It’s very sad to read when you look how many of these long lived and intelligent beings are left.

Scientists Call For Action to Prevent Right Whales’ Extinction

National Geographic article on microplastics

We have had 200 years of “progress” as it is called since the start of the industrial revolution. Where has that progress got us? To the point where microplastics pollute every source of water and are entering the food chain and starting to enter our own bodies. What will be the long term effects of us digesting plastic? Now that we know these tiny particles are everywhere shouldn’t we be doing something about it instead of just saying, “Oh well”?

National Geographic article