They have long upset suburban
bird fans – chasing hungry garden favourites away from feeders – and have pushed
native red squirrels to the remotest parts of the country.
City dwelling great tits sing a different song to their country
cousins. So much so, that they have a stronger response to their fellow city dwellers'
songs than the songs of their country cousins.
It was a hot start for the first Borders baby Ospreys of the
year, with the first two hatchlings appearing on the Tweed Valley Osprey Projects’
televised nest.
People all over Scotland are being invited to go wild in the
countryside in June - choosing from over 230 events and activities which make
up Wildlife Week 2009.
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.
Three dead elephants were suspected of being poisoned in the
forest concession area of a pulp company in the Riau province of Indonesia's Sumatra
island, a report said Tuesday.
Several major bird populations have plummeted over the past four
decades across the United States as development transformed the nation's landscape
...
Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin
tuna market
Japan's sprawling Mitsubishi
conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna,
one of the world's most endangered fish.
Eerie-looking ghost bats have been filmed in the wild for the
first time. A BBC camera team filmed the bats flying deep inside an abandoned
mine in the Northern Territory in Australia.
It's usually assumed that animals arriving on islands diversify
quicker than on the mainland due to lack of competition and more ecological opportunities.
Green energy overtakes
fossil fuel investment, says UN
Green
energy overtook fossil fuels in attracting investment for power generation for
the first time last year, according to figures released today by the United Nations.
India to invest $22bn in bid to become world solar leader
The Indian government is working on ambitious plans designed
to make the country a world leader in solar energy, boasting 200GW of installed
solar capacity by 2050.
China cuts sulphur dioxide, water pollution in '08
China cut its water pollution and emissions of acid rain-causing
sulphur dioxide last year, as it stepped up efforts to make its economic growth
cleaner, state media said on Wednesday.
The Obama administration's chief climate negotatior says the
United States is not likely to enter into a new international treaty to reduce
the emissions blamed for global warming without China and other major greenhouse-gas
emitters on board.
Small islands win U.N. vote on climate change security
Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic
victory at the United Nations on Wednesday with the passage of a resolution recognizing
climate change as a possible threat to security.
The Government must provide extra funding to help poor countries
tackle climate change, which threatens to destroy attempts to reduce poverty,
a committee of MPs has urged.
Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change
An ambitious plan to fight climate change by making polluters
pay to preserve forests has come under a cloud, with some environmentalists calling
it unworkable and dangerous.
Changing climate may make 'super weed' even more powerful
Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered a new
reason why the tall, tasseled reed Phragmites australis is one of the most invasive
plants in the United States.
Climate change could
cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant
its eight major field crops combined, according to a study published in the June
issue of Environmental Science and Policy.
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.
