Biggest wave ever recorded off Ireland - 67 feet

Guardian.co.uk

Top windspeed off Malin Head is 87mph today.

Next talk at the Centre - "Scotland's Reindeer" - Mary McGregor - Thurs 15th December

Mary says - "Reindeer were re-introduced to the Scottish Highlands in 1952 by a Swedish Sámi by the name of Michal Utsi. I began working with them in the winter of 2000 and was immediately addicted to their amazing natures. I returned to work there for the best part of ten years, as both seasonal staff during my studies, and later as a full time reindeer herder.

"The reindeer roam the slopes of some of Scotland's highest slopes feeding on the only sub-arctic territory in the UK, and as a herder it was my job to 'roam' out and locate them throughout the year.

"As an Arctic animal, they are found in the worlds harshest environments. But their range enabled the people of the Arctic to survive there too as they took on the role of cow, horse, sheep and goat: reindeer pull sleighs of people, packages and houses; they provide meat and even milk; in some parts of the world they are even ridden. What better animal to make it around the world and back in one night?

Photo- www.guardian.co.uk

"Through this talk I hope to tell you what makes reindeer so special and how they survive in the Arctic circle, the famous Cairngorm herd and, of course, Christmas!"

http://www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/History/history_1.htm

British Marine Animals - photography by Paul Naylor

Pictures - The Guardian

Birdsong

Guardian Interactive
A clever little interactive giving a guide to common garden birdsong.

Sexy new exhibition at the Natural History Museum

Full Story - The Guardian

The Guardian - Environment

Oxford University Climate Change Project

Link to explanatory video

'Water Pipit' - Steven Moss in the Guardian

Water Pipit

The World's Best Underwater Photographs - The Guardian

The Guardian - Environment

"We've been conned. The deal to save the natural world never happened" - George Monbiot

"As soon as something is measurable it becomes negotiable. Subject the natural world to cost-benefit analysis and accountants and statisticians will decide which parts of it we can do without. All that now needs to be done to demonstrate that an ecosystem can be junked is to show that the money to be made from trashing it exceeds the money to be made from preserving it. That, in the weird world of environmental economics, isn't hard: ask the right statistician and he'll give you any number you want."

Guardian Article on 'result' of Japanese Summit

The decline of the eel

Guardian article

The Guardian's John Vidal wags his finger at carnivores

Ten ways that vegetarians might save the planet