Cwm Idwal, set deep into the north-eastern face of
the Glydr mountain range in Snowdonia National Park, is a much studied
example of a glacial cwm or corrie.
Landowners have been urged to take care when working
in or around the River Tay or risk damaging the fragile habitat of
the rare freshwater pearl mussel.
The dredging for and collection of wild mussel seed
resumed yesterday after a two-year gap at Castlemaine harbour in Dingle
Bay, one of the biggest natural mussel beds in the country.
In this week's Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson goes
to the Eden Project in Cornwall, southwest England and to the South
Downs in southeast England to find out what butterfly research is
telling us about climate change.
Staveley Nature Reserve saved in £475,000
Lottery deal
A threatened 18th century nature plot described
as a “mecca” for wildlife lovers will be saved after
the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust won a £475,000 Lottery grant
to double its size and turn it into a biodiversity and community
centre.
More details have emerged about a west-Clare
based company’s plan to build the Midwest’s largest
ever windfarm project at Shragh and Mountrivers in Doonbeg.
Announcement on Severn Tidal project due this
Autumn
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
has confirmed that an announcement on the government's plans
for a Severn Tidal project is due this Autumn.
The humble Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)
bears a heavy burden. It may be just a small, shrimp-like crustacean,
but its sheer abundance makes it one of the largest protein sources
on Earth, eagerly sought by fish, penguins, whales — and man.
Last minute reservations from four countries may sink
the historic announcement of a network of marine protected areas over
key areas of the mid-Atlantic Ridge and basin which was scheduled
for the North-East Atlantic environment summit later this month.
Now you see it, now you don't. According to news reports
last week, the plume of oil in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico is
no more. But just days earlier, the subsurface plume had been proclaimed
a long-lived menace.
At dusk, the dry savannah of the Kimberley was once
alive with the scuttling and foraging of the burrowing bettong, a
marsupial whose ''countless numbers'' were marvelled at by early surveyors.
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension
isle
A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic
conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago,
Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.
Oil-mining operations in Canada's main tar sands region
are releasing a range of heavy and toxic metals — including
mercury, arsenic and lead — into a nearby river and its watershed,
according to a new study.
China raises alarm over Yangtze environmental damage
China will spend billions of dollars treating sewage
and planting forests to arrest massive environmental degradation along
the Yangtze river and its Three Gorges reservoir, officials said Tuesday.
The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look
at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting global
warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led
action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
Financing said vital for world climate change
deal
A global fund to help poorer countries switch
to green industrial technology is vital in any new international
pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change
negotiator said on Wednesday.
Warmer temperatures in China to reduce crop yields
With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse
gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater
for agriculture will shrink further in China, reducing crop
yields in the years ahead.
An ancient reef found in the Pacific may provide
clues to what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.
A team of researchers from Australia and New Zealand have discovered
a huge 9,000-year-old reef surprisingly far south.
Bjørn Lomborg: climate change is a problem after
all
He's back and generating as many headlines as ever.
After years as the world's leading climate change critic, "sceptical
environmentalist" Bjørn Lomborg is now saying that we
need to put it at the top of our priority list.
Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe:
3.5°
The world is heading for the next major climate change
conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming
of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses
suggest.
IPCC report raises fresh questions over Dr Rajendra
Pachauri's leadership
The UN's climate change panel must introduce a structure
to prevent conflicts of interest, according to a report by the world's
top science group that raised fresh questions over the leadership
of the body.
Tiny marine creatures found on the seabed on opposite
sides of the vast West Antarctic ice sheet give a strong hint of the
risks of sea level rise caused by climate change, scientists said
Tuesday.
