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National Children’s Gardening Week 2022
National Children’s Gardening Week 2022
May 28 - June 5
National Children’s Gardening Week celebrates the fun that gardens hold for kids. Children, parents, grandparents, schools or garden businesses can find ideas for fun garden projects and activities on this site.
Children love growing plants, love being in the garden but they’re often impatient, wanting to see instant results. National Children’s Gardening Week aims to capture children’s enthusiasm at a time when results are immediate. National Children’s Gardening Week takes place annually in the ‘warm’ week at the end of May.
This means that pretty much throughout the UK they can plant all the popular plants with little fear of weather damage or the need for complicated protective growing.
‘Coral IVF’ aids Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
‘Coral IVF’ aids Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
The world’s largest living structure is under threat from rising ocean temperatures linked to climate change, which have caused coral bleaching.
This year, however, has seen some recovery on the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists have been using man-made pools in a process comparable to in vitro fertilisation (IVF), moving eggs from areas of the reef where coral has been growing. These are then transferred in an effort to regenerate areas hit by bleaching or destruction from storms.The process of assisted spawning, dubbed “coral IVF”, aided the birth of billions of new coral babies this year, in an explosion of colour. The reef is still facing substantial dangers, but scientists and conservationists hope these types of technologies can spur broader recovery in the world’s reefs, home to roughly a quarter of marine life.
The Empire State Building now entirely WIND POWERED
The Empire State Building now entirely WIND POWERED
As of January 1, all 13 buildings owned by the Empire State Realty Trust — including the iconic Empire State Building — are officially being completely powered by wind.
Their 14 buildings have more than 10 million square feet total, and with the purchase of the 3-year contract, the trust is now the largest real estate user of entirely renewable energy in the U.S.
Rhino kissesRhino Kisses
Rhino kissesRhino Kisses
‘Kilifi was an 18-month-old rhino and his keeper, Kamara, was hand-raising him with two other baby rhinos at Lewa wildlife conservancy in Kenya. Kamara would spend 12 hours a day watching over them. Kenya’s black rhino population plummeted to near extinction but numbers are rising due to efforts by the people and government to protect them.’ Ami Vitale has worked in more than 100 countries as a National Geographic photographer and film-maker
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