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The Orchid

The Orchid

http://theorchidblog.blogspot.com

The Orchid is written by Petter Hedberg,a PhD student in Conservation Biology at the University of Warsaw, and author of a Swedish climate change book.

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  • Peat brings the heat

    Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 10:24 in climat change, peat

    It´s not to often that peat makes the news, but thanks to a new study published in Naturepeatlands are in the spotlight. A dutch-swedish researchteam has closed in an area of peatland near abisko with plexi-glass, and increased the temperature with ...

  • Mowing day

    Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 10:53

    Tomorrow is mowing day. The water has not sunk enough yet, so we will have to save the hay for later dispersal. My bad burns described in the last post have calmed down, but considering the extreme temperatures that we have had to deal with recently ...

  • One week of laser, mud and sever sunburn

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 10:15 in research, field work, peat, calowanie

    I have spent the last week walking around in the top-soil removal sites in Całowanie peatland. The problem has so far been that the summer has been unusually wet, which has resulted in the sites being filled with water. Since the bottom is also u...

  • Sarah Palin in Washington Post

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 05:08 in global warming, obama, co2, Washington Post, new york times, climat change, sarah palin

    You are the editor of a newspaper, and would like your readers to see you as a smart thought provoking source of news. You decide that this thing with letting other people write things for your paper is a really good thing. You might deci...

  • Cottongrass (Equisetum angustifolium) in Calowanie

    Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 15:51

    The Orchid blog is a blog written by Petter Hedberg, a PhD student in Conservation Biology at Warsaw University. I tend to include politics in the blog now and then, for the simple reason that conservation is dependent not just on scientists, conserv...

  • Polygonum bistorta in Calowanie

    Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 15:50

    The Orchid blog is a blog written by Petter Hedberg, a PhD student in Conservation Biology at Warsaw University. I tend to include politics in the blog now and then, for the simple reason that conservation is dependent not just on scientists, conserv...

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