Sir John Houghton, the President of JRI, died on 15th April 2020, and it was later confirmed that this was due to complications from infection with Covid-19. Sir John’s achievements were many, and he touched the lives of a large number of people. Here I will briefly outline Sir John’s …
“The Lord God had planted a garden in the east <…>; and there he put the man he had formed.” (Genesis 2:8) People often say “to change the world, start from yourself” and we believe that small things also matter. We are a young family living in a private house …
The ‘greenhouse effect’ is attributed to Horace-Benedict de Saussure who described the effect in 1770. John Tyndall of the Royal Institution, London did experimental work that he published in 1859 and 1861 which laid the scientific basis of today’s understanding of the contribution of gases in the atmosphere to the …
I spent some of my daily exercise out in the bluebell woods near my home a week or so back. A wonderful carpet of blue, a heavy scent filling the air. What a wonder – life being restored as the exceptionally warm April brings new life once more. A wonderful …
The Caribbean mourns the loss of a champion international atmospheric scientist, environmental advocate and campaigner for creation care. Sir John Houghton (1931-2020), co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Scientific Assessment Working Group, passed away in Wales, UK, on April 15, 2020, due to complications …
I am writing this over Easter weekend in a “lockdown” COVID-19 Britain. I am a church pastor, but our churches are closed, and our services are on the internet. It is an important time to reflect on how to be more caring for God’s creation, not least because the coronavirus …
Writing in April 2020 it is difficult to see how Earth Day 2020 on April 22nd will register even a small blip in the media that are now focussed on a global pandemic. Quite rightly, governments have switched all of their focus to dealing with the virus, and the Earth …
