Although phytophagous insects and plant pathogens frequently
share the same host plant, interactions among such phylogenetically
distant taxa have received limited attention.
The Wildlife Trusts are concerned
the Government’s proposed route for high speed rail phase one
from London to Birmingham will pose a serious threat to wildlife should
it get the go ahead.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust is preparing for a very
busy and exciting 2012, looking after Scotland’s wildlife for
the benefit of current and future generations.
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.
Cabinet ministers are facing local revolts over the
coalition's controversial planning reforms, with councils in at
least 14 of their constituencies opposing the proposals.
New fears raised over oil tanker transfers in Lowestoft
and Southwold
New concerns have been raised over the safety of
ship-to-ship transfers off the north Suffolk coast following an
operation to remove 54,000 tonnes of oil from a damaged tanker.
David v Goliath: Chevron plots to avoid cleaning up oil pollution
in Amazon rainforest
In the north-east of Ecuador, bordering Columbia, the
rainforest is still thick in places, lying as it does in the vast
Amazon basin that stretches across nine countries.
As Fukushima cleanup begins, long-term impacts are
weighed
Following the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 25 years
ago, the Soviet government chose long-term evacuation over extensive
decontamination; as a result, the plants and animals near Chernobyl
inhabit an environment that is both largely devoid of humans and severely
contaminated by radioactive fallout.
A Malagasy-German research team has discovered a new
primate species in the Sahafina Forest in eastern Madagascar, a forest
that has not been studied before.
Raising its slim, white neck out of the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's last surviving whooping cranes
hungrily searches a Texas marsh for the blue crabs and berries it
devours during its annual migration to the Gulf Coast.
Storms turn Port Phillip Bay into marine graveyard
A live and lethal tiger snake and floundering freshwater
turtles have joined dead penguins, a wallaby and fish washed up on
Melbourne's beaches after Victoria's storms.
Three Australian anti-whaling activists being held
on a Japanese ship after they snuck onboard at the weekend will be
transferred to Australian custody, Japan's Kyodo news service is reporting.
Biodiversity and the natural environment in central
Viet Nam are being increasingly degraded due to economic development,
according to a recent study by the Viet Nam Environment Administration's
Biodiversity Conservation Department.
Debris from wrecked cargo ship washes onto New Zealand
beaches
Shipping containers, sacks of milk powder and other
debris washed onto popular New Zealand beaches on Monday after a cargo
ship stuck on an offshore reef for three months started breaking apart
in heavy seas at the weekend.
Big Statoil Arctic find boosts Norway's oil future
Norwegian oil firm Statoil has made a second big oil
discovery in the Barents Sea in less than a year and predicted more
discoveries to come in the region, further boosting the remote Arctic
region's oil prospects.
Global warming: European species lag in habitat shift
Fast-track warming in Europe is making butterflies
and birds fall behind in the move to cooler habitats and prompting
a worrying turnover in alpine plant species, studies published Sunday
said.
Australian scientists report link between climate,
habitat loss
Australian scientists on Sunday said the 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 long puzzled by the rapid decline in millions
of Canadian boreal ducks since the 1970s think they may finally
have the cause: global warming.
Global warming caused by greenhouse gases delays
natural patterns of glaciation, researchers say
Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the Earth's
atmosphere are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, according
to a study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher and
published online Jan. 8 in Nature Geoscience.
Wind power is expensive and ineffective at cutting
CO2 say Civitas
Wind power could actually produce more CO2 than gas
and increase domestic fuel bills because of the need for "back
up" power stations, a think tank has warned.
News that China will introduce a carbon tax to reduce
greenhouse emissions is an important development, but there's little
sign other large carbon emitters will soon join it, and China's
low starting carbon price will still see Australia out of step with
global action on climate change, The Australian says in its editorial
today.
Climate rows intensify as US election year kicks
off
The extent to which the future of US environmental
and climate change policy will be determined by the result of this
November's presidential election was underlined again last week
as the leading Republican candidates stepped up their attacks on
measures designed to protect the environment.
Study finds a better way to gauge the climate costs
of land use changes
Those making land use decisions to reduce the harmful
effects of climate change have focused almost exclusively on greenhouse
gases – analyzing, for example, how much carbon dioxide is
released when a forest is cleared to grow crops.
