Looe town at times is the Venice of the West: knee-deep in water which rises from sandy foundations beneath the streets, emerging from storm drains designed to take water away…
Sea swimmers are finding the best beaches to embrace the ice cold waters of the sea in Cornwall - by wild sea swimming. We explain whyand where people are wild swimming near me - and how people and communities gain value from our sea as a 'blue space' for wellbeing, and how we work to protect it.
When going on our recovery missions we often find more than just plastic - as the waters around Cornwall have started to heat up this month we've been enjoying a…
World Oceans Day reminds everyone of the major role the oceans have in everyday life. They are the lungs of our Planet and a major source of food and medicine and a critical part of the biosphere. Join Behaviour Change Cornwall in celebrating world oceans day.
Behaviour Change Cornwall is funding and launching a new campaign - with the backing of the Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT), Seal Alliance and Looe Marine Conservation Group -…
Sites in Turkey, including the famous Gobekli Tepe, show that before agriculture, hunter-gatherers started harvesting wild grasses. They were using the ancestors of wheat and barley to make beer - crushing them up in big tubs and leaving them to ferment. They found hundreds of these tubs and even simple musical instruments. What were they doing - having a festival of course. At this proto-Glastonbury hunter gatherer groups would come from miles around to drink, listen to someone rock out on the deer-horn flute and enjoy themselves.
Lets start with the virus. Viruses are often seen as the evil bad guys, trying to thwart life at every turn - their name comes from the Latin vīrus referring to poison and other noxious liquids. In reality however viruses actually do a lot for us and our world and despite being often defined as ‘disease-causing agents’ (as bacteria first were).
Cornwall, a spear of rough-hewn granite thrusting out into the Atlantic, is unsurprisingly abundant in wrecks which contribute to the rich marine world around Cornwall’s coast. From the RMS Mulheim and Ben Asdale wrecked on the coast, to Shipwrecks sunk purposely like the Scylla off Rame Head all Cornwalls Wreck function as islands of biodiversity.
Eco-friendly changes you can make to have a more sustainable Christmas and make Santa as green as a Christmas tree again.
Like a medic overwhelmed with casualties, we triage. This means we must target the most deadly plastic in our oceans first - if we can't remove it all we must focus on the most lethal items and prioritise their removal from the environment.