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  • 23rd August 2020 at 9:56 am #532471

    Looks like 2020 has the potential to go out with a bang-

    -A hard brexit

    -US elections where Trump loses and refuses to vacate the office

    -Covid second wave

    -Influenza season

    And for the UK, the situation compounded by the bunch of clowns and creeps currently in charge of the country.

    Gotta be some good news somewhere?!!

     

     

    23rd August 2020 at 10:03 am #532473

    Here you go Paul

    Notre-Dame’s Bees Keep Buzzing Through Crises
    When fire ravaged Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral last year, many presumed that the three colonies of bees living on its sacristy roof had perished. But against all odds, the bees survived the inferno and continued to thrive through the coronavirus lockdown.

    “There’s nothing wrong with them at all,” reports beekeeper Sibyle Moulin, who looks after some 30-45,000 insects in the three hives. “The behaviour of the colonies is perfectly normal.”

    The beehives are just 30 metres below Notre-Dame’s main roof but were untouched by the flames. “The mystery remains,” says Moulin. “All that smoke, heat, water…” She kept visiting the bees through the coronavirus crisis. As humans stressed over COVID-19, Moulin reported that the bees were “completely unbothered”.

    And;

    Beavers return to Britain and could help prevent floods
    Hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago, the water-loving beaver is being reintroduced in “trial” enclosures across England.

    A British government study suggests the herbivorous rodent’s habit of building dams in rivers could help prevent flooding by drastically slowing the flow of water as well as purifying water polluted by agricultural fertilizer.

    The beavers are being sourced from the wild population in Scotland, where they were reestablished as a native species four years ago.

    Ecologist Derek Gow hails beavers as “ecosystem engineers”. He says, “They turn landscapes that are largely dead into environments that wildlife can recolonize.”

    23rd August 2020 at 10:06 am #532474

    Best year ever for fruit…just started with my raspberries…à late cropper.

    plums still picking.

    figs not yet ripe.

    never had so many cherries

    walnut trees loaded.

    everything else will pass with time…it’s how we cope that’s important..

    23rd August 2020 at 10:27 am #532477

    “A British government study suggests the herbivorous rodent’s habit of building dams in rivers could help prevent flooding by drastically slowing the flow of water”

    How can damning a river or watercourse or stream “help prevent flooding?”

    Google for “beaver flooding” to see the damage they can do.

    eg – https://parks.state.wa.us/1150/Parks-resolve-flooding-caused-by-beaver-

    23rd August 2020 at 10:58 am #532485

    The problem in the UK with flooding is that very often ditches etc were piped and straightened and were used to move water quickly from one piece of land to another ie the flood plain or another river/sea  Many such plains have now been built over or natural sponges such as peat bogs have been dug up to provide peat for gardens Trees have been cut down for roads and building In the old days one would often see meanders in rivers with large willows nearby to suck up  excess water Because of bad land management any large amounts of water just takes the easiest path and ends up flooding down stream As I understand it beaver dams slow the pace of water but this means that the water builds up upstream and is stored there in new ponds or in the soil and is released slowly downstream In addition many straight rivers are now being diverted back to their original meandering courses But of course none of this would have been necessary if basic common sense had not been over ruled by money grubbing

    23rd August 2020 at 11:01 am #532486

    I guess the gov. sees it as much cheaper than building proper flood management systems.  And perceived by the tree huggers to be doing something.  :scratch:

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