Scientists have developed a fast, cheap and reliable
technique that vastly improves the chances of successfully reintroducing
the endangered large blue butterfly to the UK.
While people are tightening their belts, it seems that
garden birds are not having to do the same, with sales of bird food
expanding amidst the cold conditions.
Two hundred ancient woodlands at threat from development
More than 200 ancient woodlands are currently under
threat from development, and many more could be at risk without
changes to the proposed planning reforms, campaigners are warning.
Windfarm protesters held a symbolic “wake”
outside Eden Court Theatre in Inverness on Saturday to highlight
their concerns about developments on wild land.
Power plant threat to birds’ beach home
A battle is looming over plans to turn protected
sandflats into an industrial zone.
Land owners and managers across the Northern Isles
are urged to take advantage of a new Scottish Government grant that
aims to boost efforts to expand native woodland cover.
recent scientific paper (reported here on Eurekalert)
publishes research suggesting a link between decreasing Arctic sea
ice and increased snow in the northern hemisphere.
Last weekend, as I was heading into the hills, I
walked through what can only be described as a devastated landscape
more reminiscent of a scene from the trenches of Flanders or Cormac
McCarthy’s The Road than the Scottish countryside
in the 21st century.
After a marathon pursuit, Sea Shepherd says it has
found and shut down Japan's key whaling factory ship, Nisshin Maru,
deep inside Australian Antarctic waters.
As scientists continue the hunt for energy sources
that are safer, cleaner alternatives to fossil fuel, an ever-increasing
amount of valuable farmland is being used to produce bioethanol, a
source of transportation fuel.
While rhino poaching is increasing at an alarming rate,
four species of cycads found only in South Africa are on the brink
of extinction due to poaching.
Alarm in Paraguay at settlement plans for Ñacunday
National Park
Paraguayan environmental organizations including Guyra
Paraguay (BirdLife in Paraguay) are alarmed at the recent decision
of the national government to actively promote the settlement of small-scale
farmers (‘campesinos’) within the Ñacunday National
Park.
India, other developing nations block exclusion of
Rio Principles' references from UNEP decisions
India and other developing countries successfully resisted
a move by the United States to exclude references of the Rio Principles
from the decisions of the United Nations Environment Programme taken
at the Nairobi meet.
The current hunting season of Siberian ducks proved
to be a wild-goose chase for the hunters, as negligible number of
migratory birds came to Chitral this season compared to past.
Controversial green energy report 'very, very poor', says government
economist
The government and renewable energy businesses have
slammed the findings of a controversial report that claimed 2020
carbon reduction targets could be achieved more cost effectively
by building nuclear and gas-fired power stations instead of wind
farms.
Scotland to fit carbon capture at existing coal plants
by 2025
The Scottish government plans to fitcarbon capture
and storage at all coal plants by 2025 and said demonstrating the
technology could generate 3.5 billion pounds ($5.6 billion) in the
next decade.
IMO set to collide with EU over vessel CO2 emissions
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is
making little headway on market-based measures to curb carbon dioxide
emissions from international shipping, putting it on a policy collision
course with the European Union, observers said.
Economic slowdown means UK can phase out more fossil
energy
The economic slowdown means the UK could retire old
coal, oil and nuclear power plants without risking black-outs between
2015 and 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
The scientist who has borne the full brunt of attacks
by climate change deniers, including death threats and accusations
of misappropriating funds, is set to hit back.
Obama warns on "false choice" between growth,
environment
President Barack Obama, defending himself against
election-year attacks over his energy policies, said on Friday that
his critics were trying to set up a "false choice" between
protecting the environment and boosting the economy.
Helping protect vulnerable birds from impacts of
climate change
Scientists from PRBO Conservation Science and the
Department of Fish and Game have completed an innovative study on
the effects of climate change on bird species of greatest concern.
