- WWF in Borneo are celebrating 123 newly discovered species since 2007, including a flying frog that can change colour. Honestly, children wouldn’t make that one up.
- Cows spend about eight hours a day meandering gently about. If they were walking on a treadmill instead of a field, thought one Irish farmer, you could use cows to generate electricity…
- Environmental campaigner Bill McKibben argues that we have changed the earth so much that we really ought to rename it.
- The Eyjafjallajökull eruption registered a 2 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. An 8 would probably wipe out humankind. Yellowstone is an 8. It goes off around every 600,000 years apparently, and last went off, erm, 640,000 years ago. Those ‘keep calm and carry on’ posters were designed for facts such as these.
The Earthbound Report 