RSPB “seriously concerned” about
wind farm impact on golden eagles
RSPB Scotland is seriously concerned about the impact
a recently consented scheme by Scottish Ministers to extend a wind
farm will have on golden eagles and white-tailed eagles.
We all know what they look like, but have you ever
really seen a mole?
Grand ambitions are the stuff of glory. I guess they're
at their grandest with someone like Alexander the Great, wanting to
conquer the known world and succeeding before he was 30.
Four admit over-fishing worth more than £8 million
At the High Court in Edinburgh today, four pelagic
skippers pled guilty to offences of making false declarations regarding
over £8 million worth of fish that they landed.
Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark has welcomed
a Parliamentary report which acknowledged support for the Government’s
aspirations for a streamlined planning system ...
The impact of the devastating weather which has swept
the country is shown by the state of these wind turbines - which
couldn't withstand the strength of the gales
An umbrella supplier and a group of holiday cottages
are the first businesses to be paid to generate heat from renewable
sources, the Government has said.
The Beckingham Marshes near Gainsborough are among
the farmers and rural communities across England to benefit from
£100,000 of funding to reduce the risk of flooding, maintain
farmland and create new wildlife habitats.
One of Scotland's best wild landscapes lost on Lewis
The John Muir Trust is dismayed by the Scottish Government's
mid-festive season announcement that the East extension to the Muaitheabhal
wind farm in South Lewis has been approved.
Tiger skins and bones seized in Thai customs swoop
Thai customs officials have said they have seized four
boxes of smuggled tiger skins and bones worth tens of thousands of
dollars in the post, believed to be destined for interior decoration.
A rapid rise in air pollution from fossil fuels and
biomass burning has worsened winter smog and extended its duration
in many parts of South Asia, scientists and officials have said.
Intensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies
on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India
... have resulted in the discovery of an interesting species of Amomum
(Cardamom) from Silent Valley National Park on the Western
Ghats of Kerala.
Governments may need to abandon efforts to save certain
animals in particular areas when faced with the effects of climate
change and habitat loss, scientists say.
Canadian seal cull 'unnecessary due to climate change'
Canada faced fresh calls to shut down its commercial
seal hunt on Thursday, following new evidence that death rates among
seal pups had dramatically increased due to thinning winter sea ice.
The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment
nationwide in 2010 increased 16 percent over the year before, reversing
a downward trend in overall toxic releases since 2006, according to
a report released Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Scientists have uncovered a lot about the Earth’s
greatest extinction event that took place 250 million years ago when
rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority
of those on land.
U.S. scientists say 2011 was the ninth-warmest year
on record in 33 years of satellite measurements of temperature readings
for almost all regions of Earth.
Scientists back 'significant broadening' of climate
research
U.S. scientists want to expand research into climate
change to focus on its social effects and ways to adapt to a changing
planet, but tighter budgets may crimp those plans, the National
Academy of Sciences reported Thursday.
And the 2011 awards for bad climate science goes
to ...
The 2011 “Climate B.S. of the Year Award”
goes to the entire field of candidates currently stumping in New
Hampshire for the Republican Party presidential nomination, the
Pacific Institute announced Thursday.
China, India mount opposition against EU aviation
carbon curbs
The European Union faced increased pressure to scale
down its plan to impose carbon curbs on airlines after China's carriers
said they won't comply with the rules and India signaled it may
attempt to scupper the EU plan.
Climate change will be good for British farming,
according to Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, with exotic
crops such as melons already thriving.
Ex-UN climate chief says business should get ready
for low-carbon world
Businesses should be putting plans in place this
year to prepare for a low-carbon economy, having been given a strong
signal from the latest climate change negotiations that governments
are serious about tackling global warming, according to the former
United Nations climate chief.
