One of the Suffolk's most threatened mammals, the otter, has
suffered a setback as it slowly re-colonises the county, with the discovery of
two dead otters in Snape since September.
Angling Trust calls for cull of otters
eating too much fish
The reintroduction
of the otter, one of Britain’s best-loved wild animals, has been a catastrophe
for the £1.1billion a year coarse-fishing industry, the Angling Trust claimed
yesterday.
Wildlife Minister Huw Irranca Davies has today accepted a petition
signed by more than 200,000 people demanding an end to the killing of birds of
prey.
More
February singers are making their voices heard. Dunnocks, or hedge sparrows, are
beginning to sing on the tops of bushes or in small trees, rarely going higher
up.
Caerphilly farmer fined £8,000 for felling
native trees
David Terence Jones of
Pen yr Heol Las Farm was convicted of failing to comply with an enforcement notice
issued by Forestry Commission Wales to replant nearly 1.5ha of woodland on his
land at Coed y Brain, Caerphilly.
Britain facing food crisis as world's soil 'vanishes
in 60 years'
British farming soil
could run out within 60 years, leading to a catastrophic food crisis and drastically
higher prices for consumers, scientists warn.
The threats posed by the loss of biodiversity are less commonly
understood than climate change, but it is vitally important that biodiversity
is protected, a leading Irish scientist said yesterday.
Soil Association calls for 'radical
changes' in farming
The narrow debate
over conventional and organic farming needs to stop so producers can concentrate
on developing sustainable and secure food supplies, says the Soil Association.
Delegates attending the
recent Trees Store Carbon Seminar, hosted jointly by AFBI and CAFRE at Loughry
College, were told that Forest Service is committed to doubling the area of land
under trees in Northern Ireland over the next 50 years.
Shell EP Ireland was yesterday given a three-month extension
to submit a revised application to An Bord Pleanála for the controversial Corrib
gas pipeline route in Co Mayo.
Cairngorms wood fuel energy
‘could cut bills by two-thirds’
Using
wood to heat homes and businesses in the Cairngorms National Park could cut fuel
bills by up to two-thirds, boost the local economy and shrink residents’ carbon
footprints.
When they emerge onto beaches around the world to lay their eggs
in the sand, sea turtles expose themselves to a trio of threats from climate change:
cyclones, rising seas and warming temperatures.
Today
is World Wetlands Day and this year’s theme – Caring for wetlands: an answer to
climate change – highlights the bonds between wetlands, biodiversity and climate
change.
European nations agreed on Tuesday how they would carve up billions
of euros of European Union funding to help develop advanced renewable power or
carbon-trapping technology.
Black
carbon a significant factor in melting of Himalayan glaciers
The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning
is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine
and quantify the causes.
Spain
sees emissions to 2012 breaching Kyoto limit
Spain
on Tuesday predicted on Wednesday that its greenhouse gas emissions in the 2008-12
period will be almost 20 percent above the upper limit it was set in 1990 under
the Kyoto Protocol.
As climate talks stumble, U.N. process in question
A key deadline for countries to submit emission reduction goals
to the United Nations as part of the recently negotiated Copenhagen Accord passed
last Sunday.
US 'climategate' scientist all but
cleared of misconduct
A prominent
US climate scientist at the centre of the "climategate" leaked email controversy
has been virtually cleared of professional misconduct by an internal university
enquiry.
Carbon Trust to hand out £22m wave
of marine renewable funding
The Carbon
Trust will today announce the long-anticipated award of its £22m Marine Renewables
Proving Fund (MRPF), dishing out freshing funding to six marine energy firms to
help them prepare their wave and tidal energy systems for the water.
The world's richest man has been funding geoengineering research,
it emerged last week. According to a report posted online by Science, Bill Gates
has committed $4.5 million of his own money to funding a number of climate scientists
interested in geoengineering.
With congressional action
on climate legislation in doubt, two House committee chairmen have filed a bill
to block the government from regulating greenhouse gases under its own power.
Phil Jones, scientist in climate data
row, promises to be more open`
The
scientist at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails has admitted
that he and his colleagues need to be more open with their data.
