Acid Rain
Acid rain is a result of air pollution. When any type of fuel is burnt, lots of different chemicals are produced. These can mix in the atmosphere a...
Water
Water is the most abundant compound on Earth's surface, covering 70 percent of the planet. In nature, water exists in liquid, solid, and gaseous states.
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Action needed to prevent climate catastrophe
In the Paris agreement of 2015, the world’s governments pledged to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C above pre-Industrial levels, so this new s...
Amphibians
Amphibians are vertebrates (animals with backbones) which are able, when adult, to live both in water and on land.
Around the world in 585 days
Planetsolar is a catamaran and in each hull, there are 4.5 tonnes of batteries, which can store sufficient energy to keep the boat powered for up t...
Ash reaches first key milestone on Yangtze trek
After setting off in late August, Ash has completed the first 550 miles and has arrived at his first city - Yushu, situated in Qin...
Boats
How does a boat or ship carrying heavy cargo float while that same cargo would sink to the bottom of the ocean if dumped overboard?
Calling young writers
At YPTE, we would like to start giving young people the chance to have their voices heard about environmental issues. So from now on, we'll be pub...
Climate Change
The earth's climate has seen many changes in its 4.55 billion years. Now many people believe that we must act fast to avert climate catastrophe.
Conservation Education 25 - Oceans
Into the deep blue sea....... Look at the earth from outer space and you will see a beautiful blue planet. It’s blue, because an amazing 70% of the...
EU backs ban on single use plastics
The ban doesn't have legal force yet. Member states still have to back the directive before it can become law, but with voting so overwhelmingly i...
El Nino and Indonesia
This Fact Sheet was originally written in November 1997, when major fires in the forests of Indonesia were blamed on the El Nino effect.
England ponders cash incentive for plastic bottle recycling
Mr Gove said., “We must protect our oceans and marine life from plastic waste if we are to be the first generation to leave our environment in a be...
Fuels and Energy Resources
A suite of 3 lessons for Key Stage 3 with accompanying PowerPoint presentation to compare the pros and cons of different types of renewable and non...
Global Warming
Global warming is the increase of average world temperatures as a result of what is known as the greenhouse effect.
Half of world’s killer whales under threat from pollution
PCBs were widely used from the 1930s onwards in electrical coolants and insulators, carbonless copy paper etc., but we have known for around 50 yea...
List of Talks
The school talks service is available in person for schools within a 30-mile radius of our office in Yeovil OR on Zoom, Teams etc. for schools anyw...
Making a Pond
Here is a step-by-step guide to making your own pond
Oil Pollution Case Study
The 147,000 tonne oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on February 15th 1996 at 8.07 pm, despite being under the control of one of Milford Haven’s ha...
Overfishing
It is sobering to consider that nearly 90% of the world's marine fish stocks are now fully exploited, overexploited or depleted, and there is no do...
Paddleboarding environmentalist highlights plastic pollution in England's waterways
If we used a time machine to fast forward ourselves 500 years into the future, what would the archeologists of the future be finding out about us? ...
Plastic found in fish in the River Thames
The study was limited and only looked at two fish species - common flounder and smelt, which were caught around Erith and the Isle of Sheppey. The...
Plastic found in tap water
New research published by Orb Media has revealed that 83% of tap water samples, taken from various sites around the world, were contaminated with m...
Ponds
A pond is a small area of still, fresh water. It is different from a river or a stream because it does not have moving water and it differs from a ...
Rainbow
A rainbow is sunlight spread out into an arc of colours and seen by your eyes when the sun shines through water droplets
River Pollution
It seems that almost every day there is another story about pollution of one form or another, in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we...
Rivers
Rivers can run for many hundreds of miles. The longest river in the world is the Nile in Africa. It is 6,700km long. The longest river in Britain i...
Sea Pollution
It seems that almost every day there is another story about pollution of one form or another, in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we...
Seashore
A rocky shore consists of rocky ledges with pools of salty water, boulders and pebbles. Living in this habitat is a community of hardy plants and ...
Tsunami
The word tsunami (pronounced soo-NAH-mee) is Japanese, and it means ‘harbour wave’.
Water Cycle
A suite of five lessons on the water cycle, illustrated with a PowerPoint presentation and accompanied by suggestions for activities and experiment...
Wet wipes set for a clean-up
An analysis of these monster sewer-stoppers by Water UK, the membership body for water providers, found that the 'fatbergs' were in reality more li...
Yippittee - Issue 07 - Wet, Wet, Wet
Thinking about the journey of water and remembering how precious it is.