For
the first time since 1832, the Great Bustard – one of Europe’s most threatened
birds – has this week, nested in the UK with two females successfully hatching
chicks.
Cuckoos have been seen and heard at Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s
Hickling Broad national nature reserve this weekend, just days after warnings
emerged cuckoos are in danger of extinction.
First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales, Rhodri Morgan,
has visited Skomer Island to officially open the award winning accommodation and
visitor facilities.
Britain's slow but steady
march towards renewable energy took a step forward yesterday when plans were revealed
for the UK's first power plant to produce electricity from geothermal energy –
the Earth's own heat.
Plans submitted for "world's most productive" wind farm
Plans to build one of the world's most productive wind farms
on the wind-swept Shetland Isles have been submitted to Scottish ministers for
consideration.
Segregation
needed for gene crops in Europe: scientists
Genetically-engineered
crops and conventional crops would have to be grown in segregated areas to meet
environmental concerns about transgenic farming in Europe, agricultural scientists
said on Tuesday.
Farm and environment factions against the genetic modification
of wheat are opposing other farm organizations for allowing biotech companies
to commercially increase their output.
Green energy goal to boost EU jobs, economy: study
The European Union will boost economies and create an additional
410,000 jobs if the bloc meets its target of getting one fifth of its energy from
renewable sources by 2020, a new report shows.
African IBA network 'robust' in the face of climate change
Twenty first century climate change could see the ranges of many
African bird species moving beyond the boundaries of the sites established for
their protection, raising the spectre of even higher extinction rates than those
currently projected.
Researchers have known about
the speckled brown Sidamo lark for only 40 years. Always a rare sight, the elusive
bird may soon vanish from the prairie grasses of Ethiopia forever.
Lake Tuz basin undergoing desertification,
says activist
The basin of Lake Tuz,
which extends to 25,000 square meters and covers a large portion of Central Anatolia,
is becoming more of a desert day by day ...
Scientists
have discovered an exciting example of evolution at work on the Galápagos Islands.
It's not Darwin's finches or the famous tortoises; it's a low-key species of mosquito
that arrived at the archipelago 200,000 years ago.
China to act on climate, warns of "unfair" demands
China promised on Tuesday to step up actions to fight climate
change and cautioned that "unfair" new demands by rich nations could sabotage
a new U.N. treaty due to be agreed in December.
America's chief climate negotiator has pledged billions of dollars
a year to help developing countries acquire clean energy and adapt to climate
change.
EU greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) have fallen for the third consecutive
year, according to data from the emissions inventory compiled by the European
Environment Agency for 2007.
As negotiators
come together this week to hammer out a new deal on climate change in Bonn, Germany,
African nations are still trying to forge a shared climate vision to help them
negotiate together.
Rich and poor countries criticized
a first draft text of a new United Nations climate treaty Monday but grudgingly
accepted it as the basis for six months of arduous negotiations.
Japanese voters favor the deepest cuts in greenhouse gases under
consideration by Prime Minister Taro Aso as part of a new U.N. climate pact, according
to opinion poll results on Tuesday.
Climate change could spark "environmental wars" in the Middle
East over already scarce water supplies and dissuade Israel from any pullout from
occupied Arab land, an international report said on Tuesday.
