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Don't forget, nuclear war is still a real threat
9 nuclear states, all in conflict (India and Pakistan, Russia and NATO, etc). Enola Gay had 1 bomb (16 kiloton), killing 100 000 in Hiroshima. 1 Trident sub can carry 100 Hydrogen bombs, equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima bombs. The smallest Trident missile (multiple war heads, range from 0.3 to 100 kiloton) would kill 500 000…
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Tallest tree(s) in Britain!
44m beech identified in Newtimber Woods on the Devil’s Dyke Estate (National Trust) in West Sussex, in the South Downs. This is the tallest native tree in Britain. Reading the small print, however, it looks like there’s a taller lime in Scotland somewhere, but it was planted so not “wild” – bit unfair, surely? The…
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Learning from nature
Rowan, or mountain ash, is not an ash, although the leaves are similar. True ash (Fraxinus) has clusters of droopy long seeds, a bit like sycamore seeds. Rowan (Sorbus) has red berries. Ash trees line the path along the burn. Es in Dutch.