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|  | | | | "Home Planet, the programme that tackles your queries about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it. From astronomy to geology, biology to environmental science. You set the agenda and our panel of scientists and conservationists come up with the answers."
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Panel
This week's guests:
Professor Philip Stott
Dr Lynn Dicks
Professor Graham Underwood
TOPICS
Blue tits and milk bottles
We are asking for your help to find out whether there are any birds in the UK that still take the cream from the tops of milk bottles.
The last recorded instance of this activity was in 2000. If you have seen any bird pecked bottle tops since that date please do let us know by email, letter or phone with the words "Milk Bottle Birds" as your heading.
Useful links
General blue tit information including a link to its song.
Coal Gasification
A summary of clean coal technology from the BBC.
Information on coal gasification technology from the US Department of Energy.
Information on a number of coal technologies from the World Coal Institute.
Kingsnorth power station information from E-ON, the owners.
Opposition to Kingsnorth from Greenpeace.
Biogas Generation
An outline of biogas generation and its use throughout the world.
BBC News Report of Biogas generator in Nepal.
Biogas information from the Energy Saving Trust.
The National Farmers Union on Biogas.
Map of UK biogas projects.
Marine Conservation Areas
Seven proposed areas of conservation.
Guardian article describing some critical reactions to the proposed areas.
WWF Marine Act campaign site.
UK Marine Protected Areas Centre.
Association of Sea Fisheries Committee.
Solitary Dolphins
Information on Solitary Dolphins from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Information on Solitary Dolphins from the Irish Dolphins, set up in response to swimming with Fungie, the Dingle Bay dolphin.
Solitary dolphin information from the charity Marine Connections.
Precession of the Earth
Short biography of Milankovich, the mathematician and astronomer who developed the idea of seasonal changes to the Earth dependent on the position of the Earth in space relative to the Sun.
Long article about Milankovich and climate change.
NASA page on the Astronomical theory of Climate Change.
Graphics programme illustrating the difference between precession, rotation and axial tilt of the Earth.
Short video showing how the Earth's axis has precessed over the last million years.
Explanation of the Earth's orbital variations, with animation.
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