Heart problems mean it's an end to wild
living for beaver
One of ten Norwegian
beavers let loose in Scotland as part of a reintroduction programme has been taken
permanently into captivity after it developed heart problems.
Bumblebees can now be spotted all year around, especially in
Southern England where winter-flowering, non-native plants found in urban gardens
provide the food they need to survive the cold months of our British winter.
Appeal for volunteers to
watch over Ribble’s rare birds
An
appeal has been issued to people in Lancashire to help safeguard some of the Ribble’s
rarest wildlife, which will soon be returning to the marshes on the Ribble Estuary
from Africa and southern Europe.
Assembly
ministers in Wales have welcomed news that the UK Government will be carrying
out a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the development of wave and
tidal devices in the country.
Construction work begins on Sheringham Shoal offshore windfarm
Construction work on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
site began on 9 March with the arrival of the Nordnes, which will position rocks
at selected foundation locations in preparation for the start of the installation
of the giant monopile structures next month.
Feed-in tariff
'killing off' burgeoning UK small turbine industry
UK small wind turbine manufacturers say they will lose out to
foreign solar panel manufacturers in the race to cash in on the UK government's
new feed-in tariff scheme.
Devon County Council and the Forestry Commission are joining
forces to help landowners in Devon get the most from their woodland and improve
the productivity of small woodlands.
The demand for a single agency
to manage the country's waterways will be pressed by the IFA's Michael Silke tomorrow,
when he appears before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment.
Slovenia will this
year allow hunters to kill 75 brown bears and 12 wolves to limit the damage they
do to crops and livestock and prevent numbers growing, the environment ministry
said on Wednesday.
The EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in
Atlantic bluefin tuna, reports indicate. The bloc has agreed to back a motion
for a ban during next week's meeting of the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species (CITES).
Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on
Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has
banned imports of seal products.
India's shrinking animal ark needs more parks, corridors
A study on the past extinction of large mammals in India ...
has found that country's protected area system and human cultural tolerance for
some species are key to conserving the subcontinent's tigers, elephants, and other
large mammals.
Genetically modified (GM) paddy rice is expected to be available
in the market in about three to five years, according to a Ministry of Agriculture
think tank member.
Two independent reports into one of Queensland's worst environmental
disasters have criticised the clean-up effort, with one federal agency saying
delays worsened the ecological impact.
United
Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change
The head of the United Nations (UN) has announced a review of
how the world examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals
around the science of climate change.
Commission lays out post-Copenhagen climate strategy
The European Union's climate chief on Tuesday (9 March) told
the European Parliament she wants the bloc to forge ahead with cuts in carbon
emissions of 30 percent - despite competing powers having yet to make similar
pledges ...
European efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions could be undermined
by Russian plans to dramatically increase energy production from coal, Western
experts said in Brussels yesterday (9 March).
China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts
China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause
of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so
serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon cap and trade at risk as Japan considers climate bill
Japan is at risk of undermining its own recent commitments on
carbon emissions reductions during a confused – and confusing – debate on forthcoming
climate legislation, WWF said today.
Obama pushes climate change in White
House meeting
President Barack Obama,
weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican
and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy
policy.
A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age"
of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated
on Wednesday.
