Peregrine
falcons are being targeted by pigeon fanciers in Walsall – so the RSPB are calling
for the birds to be added to a protected list to enable better protection.
If you've been trawling the shops for boutique chic and pastel
colours, you've got it all wrong: football flags, underwear and magazine pages
are the latest trends in interior design.
Tall and lean-limbed, Crispin Holloway lopes over a hillside
of sheep-cropped Downland sward above Lewes, and begins scanning the terrain with
the sharp eye of a hawk.
Trees
help to break down barren rocks into soil, but how does that work exactly? It
turns out that tiny fungi living on the trees' roots do most of the heavy work.
Incredible shrinking sheep blamed
on climate change
Sheep living
on a remote island off the coast of Scotland have been shrinking for 20 years.
Now it seems shorter winters caused by climate change are responsible.
Unwanted guests? Public told
to pick up the bat phone
Never chase
a bat around your living room when it’s flying, the National Parks and Wildlife
Service (NPWS) has said as it announced a new freefone helpline on how to live
with bats.
Planning
board accused of allowing destruction of priority Corrib habitat
The State has accused An Bord Pleanála of permitting “the deliberate
destruction” of priority habitat limestone pavement at the protected Lough Corrib
site in Co Galway by granting approval for the €317 million Galway city outer
bypass.
CALM Alliance launch prospectus for better
transport in South Wales
This Friday,
at 11am, the Campaign Against the Levels Motorway launches a visionary Prospectus
of options which will provide value for money solutions to transport issues in
the M4 corridor around Newport.
The Marine Bill is unlikely
to be passed until the autumn, delaying planning reform for the renewables industry
by months, New Energy Focus has learnt.
France
on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that
said a controversial strain of genetically-modified corn was safe.
EU seen meeting renewable fuel targets
with blends
The European Union is
likely to achieve its target of generating 10 percent of transport fuels from
renewable sources by 2020 by blending biofuels with fossil fuels, a leading EU
researcher said.
Tesco 'trusts' cattle suppliers involved in Amazon deforestation
Despite the lack of traceability in the supply chain, the assurances
of cattle producers that they are not involved in the illegal deforestation of
the Amazon rainforest is apparently enough for Tesco
The early hours of the morning in the Pantanal can be an almost
deafening experience, as this beautiful wetland area wakes up to a symphony of
natural sounds.
Two U.S. Senate subcommittees have scheduled a hearing next week
to discuss how to combat the fungus that killed off an estimated 90 percent of
North Jersey's bat population last winter ...
Just two years
ago, an exciting project was initiated to map the distribution of birds in Southern
Africa using the efforts of keen civil society volunteers.
Climate body to try to bridge differences before G8
Officials from a 17-member body which account for the lions share
of the world's carbon emissions will hold urgent talks next Tuesday to iron out
differences on the eve of a July 8-10 summit of the G8.
Beijing on Friday joined a growing clamour of complaint about
US plans for a carbon tax on imports from countries without their own emission
caps, warning it could set off a global trade war.
Change farming to cut CO2 emissions
by 25 per cent
A new report has revealed
that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter
of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year
Canada and Japan accused of blocking Copenhagen progress
Sir David King, the UK's former chief scientific adviser, yesterday
accused Canada and Japan of blocking progress towards a meaningful international
deal to tackle climate change.
