Greenhouse gases continuing to rise

The World Meteorological Organisation has announced the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide rose by about half a percent in 2005 and that the rise shows no sign of abating.

BBC News quoted Geir Braathen, a senior scientist at the WMO, as saying “It looks like it will just continue like this for the foreseeable future.”

So climate change continues to gather pace while we sit back and fiddle while the Earth burns.

Good one, Monty!

With little publicity or fanfare, gardener Monty Don is proving the mental and physical benefits of gardening and hard work by helping a group of ex-offenders redefine themselves more positively.

A BBC news report, Digging out of drug abuse, says that two years into Monty’s pioneering project he and the ex-offenders are starting to see rewards.

The group is working a six-acre plot in Herefordshire, where they grow vegetable crops and rear poultry, sheep and pigs.