by pennyurquhart | Feb 21, 2024 | extreme events, Uncategorized
High summer is fire season in South Africa’s Western Cape province. Nothing strange about that – the vegetation is dry, the winter rains long gone, and, well, that’s the way the spectacular fynbos likes it. Mountain fynbos on the Cape Peninsula. Source: By S...
by pennyurquhart | Jul 13, 2023 | Featured, Uncategorized
AKA El Niño ushers in more and more heat Monday 10th July 2023. I am sitting aboard our wide beam canal boat. It is warm but there’s a pleasant, refreshing breeze. Summer is here and I could have not a care in the world. But trouble is brewing on planet Earth....
by pennyurquhart | Jan 9, 2023 | climate action, Uncategorized
It’s 2023. Back at my desk, I thought to write a short piece taking stock of where we are on climate action, and what the latest research is telling us. Even though I am not a sucker for punishment, I promise. By NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, Key and Title...
by pennyurquhart | Nov 25, 2022 | climate grief, environment, Uncategorized
Art and ecology are interwoven in a rich and timeless seam that has surely helped humans synthesise meaning and comfort since our early days as a species. And this is the landscape navigated by that wonderful organisation known as art.earth – a collective of artists...
by pennyurquhart | Oct 27, 2022 | climate change and health, COP27, Uncategorized
An old song earworms its way through my mind, the lyrics ‘it’s getting hot, hot, hot’ tripping over a punchy soca rhythm. I can’t place it but recognise it as an intermittent visitor for some months. It’s as though the zeitgeist is bubbling up into my...
