To support the 350th Anniversary of the formation of the Royal Marines in October 2014, there is an urgent need to recruit 350 runners / walkers to fundraise for the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund and to travel to Gibraltar to take on the famous Rock Run.
Interest in this event is very high, with participants expected from all over the world - but bearing in mind the historic home of this famous Corps is South West England, there is expected to be plenty of local interest.
For more information on how to register for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and to see the...
Tropical rainforests are often called the “lungs of the planet” because they generally draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. But the amount of carbon dioxide that rainforests absorb, or produce, varies hugely with year-to-year variations in the climate. In a paper published online this week (6th Feb 2013) by the journal Nature , a team of climate scientists from the University of Exeter, the Met Office-Hadley Centre and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, has shown that these variations reveal how vulnerable the rainforest is to climate change.
