MyEnviroMind

Halloween is creeping up on us! Time for some sneaky snacking and bloodcurdling baking. We all need a break every now and then - Half term for me hasn't come a moment too soon! Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that we should all forget our morality and ethics. Raise your hand if you are also a culprit of buying cheap, last-minute sweets and dishes in a rush. Once, twice. Maybe a couple of hundred times. We've all done it. And with Halloween being famed by kids for its opportunity to go reckless with sugar, the number of unsustainable, unhealthy and immoral sweets flying of shelves is the true horror of October. By 'unhealthy,' I don't just mean because of the sugar - everyone who is anyone knows that all sweet treats have sugar in them and, like I said, Halloween is a time of year to let loose and run wild! (within the law.) Nah I'm talking about those slightly dodgy products. Those unheard of, unregulated items that can be found in any place, ...

NASA has revealed that, as predicted, this year is holding some record-warm months - and there's no stopping here. It's not just September's heat that's triumphed this year; August & July this year have both tied as the hottest months ever recorded.  Not recorded since the 1900's. Not recorded for 50 years. No. The hottest months ever recorded.  Is it just me or are you getting a bit hot & bothered by this news too? The threshold of only a 1.5 degree C increase became almost in reach during February 2016 where temperatures were 1.34 degree C above normal. If we go beyond this mark, life on small islands will conclusively be flooded out. A higher population density will occur in cities as land will be lost and homes destroyed. I'd like to point out that this isn't just about loosing nature and protecting biodiversity. Ultimately, that is a major consequence of our ever-increasing temperatures. However, for those who may be more af...

You may or may not be aware of this. Recently our family, your relative, my friend, the Bornean Orangutan has been classified as 'critically endangered'. The critically endangered Indri This is the final stage  for any species before extinction on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List. Now why might this be? Everyone knows about the orangutan, unlike many of the other lesser-known species on the Red List such as the Indri or the North Brown Howler. They are a popular species too; if one is walking round zoos or researching wildlife examples for kids to learn, they are bound to stumble upon the Orangutan a numerous amount of times. So what has gone wrong? Well it all boils down to their habitat. As many budding biologists will know, Orangutans live within the rain-forest. As well as this, commonly lurking around the rain-forests in Borneo are Mahogany tree fellers, palm oil exploiters dirty businesses all round, and, as you...