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Plant power
Healthy plants, including crops and trees, are vital for our future. They are fundamental to our food, environment, economy and social wellbeing.
Plant scientists are finding new ways to solve some of our biggest challenges, such as protecting our forests, finding new fuel sources and ensuring that we have enough food for a growing population.
Did you know that ¼ of all medicines contain materials taken from plants?
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- The North Pole is 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than usual this winter. At first, scientists thought their equipment was broken because this is so unusual. Source: http://wapo.st/2mXi69A
- Sixteen of the seventeen warmest years on record have occurred since 2001. Source: http://go.nasa.gov/2iRikw1
- Miami’s streets now flood on bright, sunny days due to sea level rise caused by melting glaciers. Source: http://nyti.ms/2mfOXlC
- According to the U.N., approximately 150 species go extinct every day. The leading causes are human development and climate change. Studies show that extinction rates are up to 100 times higher than they would be without human influence. Source: http://bit.ly/2cuy57c
- The United States is the only developed nation with a conservative party that still denies climate change is a human caused issue. Source: http://bit.ly/2dNoJmo
- NASA confirmed that 2016 was the hottest year on record, ever. The same goes for the last three years. Source: http://wapo.st/2mXjE3p
- The U.S. military, including Trump-appointed Defense Secretary James Mattis, has stated that climate change poses a significant threat to our national security. Source: http://n.pr/2mXA2OY
- According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (a non-partisan government organization), flooding is estimated to be from 300 percent to 900 percent more frequent within U.S. coastal communities than it was just 50 years ago, due to melting glaciers. This flooding costs tax payers billions of dollars, takes lives each year, and is expected to become even more frequent as climate change continues. Source: http://bit.ly/1uhNNXh
- Here is a link to a graph created using NASA data which clearly shows that greenhouse gases are the cause of global temperature rise: http://bloom.bg/2hxsT7D
I often encounter climate change deniers in the work that I do, so I share these facts in the hopes that they will help you convince your skeptical friends that climate change is real. One of the best ways we can act on climate change is by bringing it up in conversations with friends and in school, to help people wrap their minds around this complex and continually growing issue.
It’s the 1st of August which also happens to be #WorldWideWebDay, 28 years since Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliauhe created the ‘Web’ at CERN in Switzerland in 1990
Despite this being the birthday of the great WWW, it wasn’t until a year later, on 6th August 1991 that the first website was published which gave early-web-adopters instructions on how they could create their own websites and how they could search for information.
The World Wide Web is a way for us all to access and share information using the internet but it isn’t the only service that uses the internet. E-mail does the same thing, but this is considered a separate entity to the web.
Over the years, websites have transformed the way we live our lives. Amazon came in 1994 (previously named ‘Cadabra’), Google in 1998 and of course, the beloved website Wikipedia in 2001, the year homework became that little bit more bearable.
Since that moment in 1990, the web has expanded at a mind-boggling speed. What we have now is a hub of knowledge, wonder, opinions, holiday snaps and insightful Tumblr threads, of course.
