Baroness Boothroyd says killing moles is 'wonderful'
When Baroness Betty Boothroyd guest edited BBC Radio
4's Today programme yesterday she had hoped to spark a serious debate
about House of Lords reform.
Jockey Tony McCoy scraps plans for racing stable
over fears windfarm will spook horses
Tony McCoy, the champion jockey, has mothballed plans
for a £2 million racing stable because he fears the horses
will stampede in terror at the sound whirling blades from a wind
farm which could be built nearby.
Anger after four out of five major wind farms approved
by ministers
Campaigners say they have little faith in the Scottish
Government listening to local opinion after figures showed only
five major wind farm applications have been turned down in the last
four years.
Moss has cloned itself for 50,000 years, study says
A moss spreading throughout the Hawaiian Islands (map)
appears to be an ancient clone that has copied itself for some 50,000
years—and may be one of the oldest multicellular organisms on
Earth, a new study suggests.
A killer fungus that nearly wiped out amphibian populations
in various countries to extinction across the world has been detected
for the first time in the country.
Gundia power project will result in bio-diversity loss
The Gundia power project in Karnataka should not be
permitted as its execution can cause significant environmental impact
and biodiversity loss, the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)
has reported.
Heaped on a table at the laboratory, the pile of beaks,
feet, eyeballs, feathers and whole bird carcasses testified to what
may be the oil industry’s most unexpected environmental impact.
Ecuador vows to push Yasuni jungle protection plan
Ecuador vowed on Friday to press ahead with a plan
to shield the Yasuni reserve in the Amazon jungle from oil companies
after international donors pledged more than $100 million in exchange
for the government not permitting exploration.
A giant invasive weed is threatening the ecosystem
along southern U.S. rivers and could hamper security efforts on the
U.S.-Mexico border, researchers say.
Renewable energy sources generated 9% of the UK's
electricity in the third quarter of 2011, according to figures from
the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Just under a month ago, on an empty mountain plateau
in Andalusia, the last of 600,000 parabolic mirrors were connected,
and Andasol, the world's largest solar power station, become operational.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday issued a last-minute
order to delay the January 1 implementation of stricter federal
limits on pollution from coal-fired plants, providing a temporary
win for utilities worried about the cost of implementation.
The long-drawn-out Durban climate conference was
marked by frequent “indabas,” or informal meetings called
by the African chair, and ended in a last-minute jugglery of the
agreed text which managed to clinch the package climate deal termed
the “Durban Platform.”
UK investment in green energy failed to pick up significantly
in 2011, reflecting difficult economic circumstances and uncertainty
over government policy.
