No action over 'Facebook sale' of Norfolk whale teeth
A youth is unlikely to face prosecution over claims
the teeth and jaw of a dead whale found in Norfolk were offered for
sale on Facebook, police have said.
Spread across the North West’s rich and varied
countryside is one of the most diverse kingdoms of life – but,
despite many people having seen these strangely beautiful organisms,
little is widely known about the fascinating life forms called slime
moulds.
Young Volunteers show team spirit to save rare black
grouse
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s
‘Woodlands for Black Grouse’ Project has enjoyed enthusiastic
support from young volunteers at the start of the tree planting season.
Noss Head mussels helped make marine survey a success
The largest Horse Mussel bed in Scotland, found in
waters near Caithness, was just one of many discoveries made during
a massive marine survey earlier this year.
Why county’s hen harriers teeter on brink of
extinction
The deep midwinter was traditionally the key time of
the year for the determined birder to be rewarded with a fluttering
glimpse of one of our most majestic predators.
RSPB and farmers launch new
landscape-scale conservation project
An ambitious new landscape-scale conservation project
aimed at tailor-managing arable farmland across a large area is
being launched today (3 January 2012) at the Oxford Farming Conference.
RSPB volunteers set a new record as they hit a million
hours for nature
Despite recent government figures showing the number
of people volunteering formally at least once a year had fallen
to its lowest level for 10 years, the RSPB is today announcing its
best-ever year having reached the one million hours mark for the
same period.
People in the Totternhoe and surrounding area now
have a third opportunity to look at plans to transform a nearby
area of countryside following a successful project launch.
Britain’s climate change minister has rounded
on the “environmental Taliban” of green campaigners,
insisting they are wrong to accuse the government of abandoning
its commitment to an ambitious low carbon agenda.
Figures from the UK Department of Energy and Climate
Change (DECC) show that companies have announced plans for almost
£2.5 billion worth of renewable energy investment in the UK,
with the potential to create almost 12,000 jobs, so far in the financial
year 2011/12.
The BirdLife Pacific Partnership has started a new
four-year European Union funded regional Invasive Species programme
which seeks to reduce the spread and the environmental and socio-economic
impact of invasive alien species ...
The dominance of the US and Europe in global food and
farming is under threat from their lack of natural resources and the
rising power of China, Russia and Brazil, finds a major report published
on Wednesday.
Turkey’s conservation crisis: global biodiversity
hotspots under threat
For me, 2011 started with a great post by David Braun,
so I will thank him by ending the year with my first National Geographic
piece, about my country Turkey (Türkiye).
Fishing for a living in Lake Tanganyika has become
a gamble, due to the escalating effects of climate change, pollution
and unfriendly fishing gear which have reduced catches from the World’s
second deepest lake.
Chile’s flora and fauna threatened by Patagonia
fire
With nearly 33,000 acres of the Torres Del Paine National
Park succumbing to recent forest fires, drastic changes to the region’s
biodiversity are inevitable.
NHM entomologist co-authors new research on parasitic
phorid fly, a new threat to honey bees
A paper to be published on January 3, 2012 in the authoritative
magazine PLoS ONE, co-authored by NHM entomologist Dr. Brian
Brown, reveals a new threat to honey bees and perhaps, a partial explanation
for the bees' well-publicized Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a syndrome
characterized by worker bees abandoning their hive.
The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time
to take stock
Give me a tree and I'll save the world – that
is the message that comes across from a book just published by the
French botanist Francis Hallé, Du bon usage des arbres
(Making good use of trees).
Solar feed-in tariff confusion continues as DECC prepares appeal
The government is preparing to appeal a High Court
decision that branded its plans to rush through cuts to solar tariff
payments as "legally flawed", leaving the industry in
the dark over the current level of incentives for new solar installations.
Mandatory emissions reporting decision could be delayed
further
Rules requiring companies to report on their greenhouse
gas emissions look set to be delayed until later this year due to
a bottleneck in the government's legislative process.
CLA writes to Huhne backing battle against climate
change
The CLA has written to Secretary of State for Climate
Change Chris Huhne explaining why European landowners support a
30 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions in the fight to mitigate
climate change.
Scientists have warned that damaged UK peatlands
– areas formed over thousands of years from dead and decaying
plants in waterlogged conditions – are a significant source
of carbon dioxide.
20 inches to disaster: U.S. coasts unprepared for
higher seas
Let's say the rise in sea level that climate change
will bring us -- from melting ice caps and expanding seas -- won't
be "all that bad" by, oh, the year 2080.
A warning has been issued to New Zealand’s
coastal centres, including Gisborne, that life in these places is
going to be more troublesome because of a confirmed increase in
extreme weather events, and other climate change impacts.
Climate change – our real bequest to future
generations
It is remarkable how efforts to reduce the government
deficit/debt are often portrayed as a generational issue, while
efforts to reduce global warming are almost never framed in this
way.
