Emailing large files can be a pain. There’s often a size limit on the file you can send out and another on the mailbox receiving the email. If the recipient has a limited size for the inbox, then sending a big...
Author - Alun Salt
Alun Salt
Even plants can have too much of a good thing
No doubt this will horrify Pat, but this is one of my favourite YouTube videos. If you’ve ever expressed a doubt about something, only to be told it must be ok because it’s natural, this is the video for you...
Moving beyond the ‘One-dinosaur-fits-all’ model of science communication
Alice Bell has written a couple of provocative posts on science communication at the Guardian and on her own blog recently. The spark is what the current science minister sees as the salvation of the sciences. Space and...
Leys Whitebeam (Sorbus leyana) in the wild
Congratulations to Merthyr Tydfil and District Naturalists’ Society. Their support for the few Leys Whitebeam left in the wild have made the news at Wales Online
Will ferns play a key role in mitigating climate change for some forests?
There’s an interesting paper in the July edition of the American Journal of Botany, Polystichum munitum (Dryopteridaceae) varies geographically in its capacity to absorb fog water by foliar uptake within the...
Plant reproduction in the Central Amazonian floodplains
The Amazon is the greatest river system on the planet. Twenty per cent of the world’s freshwater enters the oceans through the river basin. It’s an immense amount of water, but the flow isn’t constant...
