In December 2015, at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the measured concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide exceeded 400 parts per million. The last time the Earth’s atmosphere contained that much CO2 was some 4...
Frontiers 2021
Sea and Land
A Roman Frontier in north-east Scotland?
Over nearly fifty years Ian Keillar worked to build a picture of the Roman relationship with...
Painting Nordic musical landscapes
The concert Sagas and Seascapes by the group Nordic Viola featured a rich mix of images to...
Following the Festival
A lesson from the dandelions
Nature could well be our anchor over the next few months. Such a special time of year… it...
The darkness of the winter solstice
Winter stayed well into April, and as I dug holes for apple trees T. S. Eliot swirled in my head:...
Haar
Low cloud is quite frequent in Orkney, especially in the winter. Coming from the West, it rolls in...
Deploy the drones
We are now all familiar with how the ROV, the remotely operated vehicle as it is called, is...
The Ram on the Rock
Like a Nordic port of old, the Faroese capital of Torshavn smells evocatively of salt and tar. As...
Riches from the sea
A mile or so up the coast from the farm, a whale corpse is decomposing in a ‘geo’ (the Orcadian...
Der Mond
I’ve been getting text messages from the moon. A note pops up on my phone asking if the moon can...
Green Flash
In the light of evening the low sun began to illuminate the wall of the croft with a soft amber...
Orkney housing in the 21st century?
The John D. Mackay Memorial Lecture in the 2014 Orkney International Science Festival looked at the...
The Heart of the Land
2020 Orkney International Science Festival went online. Like many events this year, technology came...
The robots and the planets
What is the next step in exploring the solar system? Could robots go where we cannot? Could we and...
Linking towers for fire safety
Bill Graham, a chartered engineer and inventor with various patents to his name, has come up with...
Dreaming of Mars
It’s just on fifty years since the first footstep on the Moon. At the time it seemed that the Moon...
The Ultimate Exploration: Interstellar Flight
Let’s go to the stars! Human interstellar flight is a problem with significant challenges. The...
From Orkney to Space: For Schools and Community
Night skies above us and the latest developments in space science are the subject of forthcoming...
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