Blogs and Podcasts

We have a very talented team working at the Centre. In this month’s blog, Brenna Stewart, Visitor Experience Assistant in the Discovery Experience shares an extract from her honours project exploring the connection between blue spaces and wellbeing.

There’s a magic about whales and dolphins. Catching sight of them, even just for a second, feels like glimpsing a different world. Like seabirds, cetaceans bridge the gap between life on land and life below the waves, reminding us of the rich biodiversity beneath the water’s surface.

A month has passed since the world’s leaders met in Glasgow for COP26. There were high hopes that global leaders would grasp the opportunity to produce a clear route map to keep global warming below 1.5°C by the end of the Century. The reality is that the global leaders, and their negotiators, did leave Scotland without resolving some fundamentals and left the world on a course towards at least 2.4°C.

Today we’re hosting the Marine Matters podcast from the COP26 Global Day of Action in Glasgow. We join the ‘biodiversity block’, to chat to others who have ventured into Glasgow on this VERY windy, rainy Saturday to raise their voices for wildlife and to hear a bit more about why prioritizing nature is so important in combatting climate crisis.