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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
Professor Philip Stott
A Parliament of Things
Dr Ros Taylor
Dr Helen Scales
Recording at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust - Slimbridge. Wed 10th September at 5:00pm
We will be recording a special edition of the programme at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. If you want to come along and pose a question for the panel then please do email, phone the helpline or write to us, contact details are below. If you just want to come and meet the panel and be part of the audience then you will be more than welcome. Just come to the centre for 5:00pm.
WWT Slimbridge centre.
Head lice search
We are asking for your help in tracking the spread of head lice in the UK, how they are treated and how different organisations deal with outbreaks. If you have any recent experience of head lice please do let us know at [email protected].
This week's programme
Are we going to run out of phosphates for fertiliser?
Phosphate is an essential fertiliser and the majority of it comes from mined phosphate rocks. There are concerns that supplies are limited and a listener wanted to know the current situation on those supplies.
Global fertilizer supply expected to outstrip demand: A news report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation saying that fertiliser supply should outstrip demand.
Phosphate Rock Statistics and Information: A comprehensive source of data on phosphate rock from the United States Geological Survey.
Phosphate: A description of phosphate rock from the South Australian government.
Fertilizer production, thousand metric tons: UN data on the amount of phosphate and nitrogenous fertiliser produced by country. This is a complex table and will need a little working through to extract the information.
What research has been done into the phosphate induced process of eutrophication in inshore waters?
Phosphates used in detergents can act alongside nitrates in the water supply to cause a major problem caused eutrophication in rivers and seas.
A description of eutrophication and the problems it can cause.
Information on phosphates and alternative detergent builders from the EU.
What are detergent builders and what are they used for.
Information on eutrophication from the Environment Agency.
Are the chemicals used to tanalise wood harmful to health?
Comprehensive list of articles and information about the made component of tanalised wood, CCA.
A brief description of the tanalising process.
Information on the EU restrictions on CCA treated wood (.pdf).
Information on the use of CCA wood in the United States.
What are the prospects for microhydro power in the UK?
Information on small scale hydro from the low carbon buildings scheme.
Information on small scale hydro from the energy saving trust.
Information on very small scale pico hydro from the University of Nottingham.
The British Hydro Power association.
Where do all the snails in my garden come from?
Basic information on the common garden snail.
BBC garden snail information.
An introduction to some pesticide free ways of dealing with snails.
Another view on dealing with garden snails.
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