Commentary Series

After the rain

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All the rainy weather we’ve had recently doesn’t seem to have dampened commentator Ruth Page’s spirits very much. In fact, she’s found a silver lining in all those grey days.
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Lawns

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Here’s commentator Ruth Page who’s fed up with lawn care, but not for the reasons you might suspect.
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Green algae

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Some of our greatest discoveries involve the humblest of materials – like bread mold and penicillin – and commentator Ruth Page says that the green film you sometimes see on the surface of water may help reduce air pollution.
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Whaleshark

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Sharks are generally considered to be ill- tempered creatures, but commentator Ruth Page says there’s one that has a comparatively sunny disposition.
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Big Bang

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How did our thirteen point seven (13.7) billion-year-old universe get started? Commentator Ruth Page says that evidence for its birth in trillionths of a second is now at hand – to cosmologists who understand it.
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Carbon Dioxide

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Commentator Ruth Page suggests that we should have taken advice from Alice in Wonderland’s Red Queen and started running much sooner in order to keep ahead of the dangers from greenhouse gas.
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Mountain tops

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Commentator Ruth Page talks about mountaintop mining in West Virginia and the several kinds of damage it can inflict on both Nature and human beings.
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Tolerance

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uth Page thinks mere tolerance is cold and unhelpful. She suggests trying something warmer, such as friendliness, so that we and others can come to understand each other better.