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Restoring historic landscapes Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image good_day under CC-BY-NC-ND

24 November 2011

Jon Stokes discusses the Tree Council's work to recreate wood pasture habitat which once covered much of the landscape Read more : Restoring historic landscapes

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Trees for life Featuring: video, The Open University

By Professor Legesse Negash (Guest)

07 April 2011

Professor Legesse Negash is the founder and leader of the Centre for Indigenous Trees in Ethiopia. He suggests that humans have not yet understood the... Read more : Trees for life

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All in the soil Featuring: video, The Open University

By Professor Legesse Negash (Guest)

07 April 2011

Professor Legesse Negash talks about a project to restore a sterile landscape to a place full of life, organic matter and microorganisms Read more : All in the soil

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China diaries: Zhang Xiejun Featuring: video, The Open University

By Zhang Xiejun (Guest)

05 January 2011

Zhang Xiejun is a school teacher in Longbaoshan village, near Beijing. She talks about how the desert landscape has changed over the last decade Read more : China diaries: Zhang Xiejun

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China diaries: Wang Yongchen Featuring: video, The Open University

By Wang Yongchen (Guest)

05 January 2011

Wang Yongchen is a journalist at China Central TV and also founder of the NGO Green Earth Volunteer. She remembers the moment when she realised that... Read more : China diaries: Wang Yongchen

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Blooming early Featuring: video, BBC

By Chris Packham (Guest), Tim Sparks (Guest)

15 June 2010

Chris Packham talks to expert phenologist Tim Sparks about why people are fascinated by the advent of spring and the fascinating conclusions that have emerged... Read more : Blooming early

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10 March 2010

Explore the personal side of climate change with Violet Rook's diary entry. Read more : Violet Rook's story

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Rocks - The Earth's ClocksUsed with permission

By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

24 October 2005

Janet Sumner describes how we can tell the history of the climate from clues left in the rocks Read more : Rocks - The Earth's Clocks

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How does nature tell the time?BBC

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

09 August 2005

Cathy Groves has been a dendrochronologist at Sheffield University since 1984. Dendrochronology is the dating of past events (climatic changes) through the study of tree... Read more : How does nature tell the time?

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By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

07 September 2004

Janet Sumner describes how we can tell the history of the climate from clues left in the rocks Read more : Rock Clocks

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Pages tagged as Trees

Restoring historic landscapes Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image good_day under CC-BY-NC-ND

Trees for life Featuring: video, The Open University

All in the soil Featuring: video, The Open University

China diaries: Zhang Xiejun Featuring: video, The Open University

China diaries: Wang Yongchen Featuring: video, The Open University

Blooming early Featuring: video, BBC

Violet Rook's storyMediagfx | Dreamstime.com

Rocks - The Earth's ClocksUsed with permission

How does nature tell the time?BBC

Rock ClocksBBC