Kittiwake
numbers plummet as UK seabird colony collapses
The
UK's internationally important seabird colonies are collapsing because of climate
change, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Climate change to blame as seabird numbers fall 19%
Scotland's seabird population has fallen by almost a fifth in
the past eight years after climate change affected the birds' food source, according
to a new report.
The
Kielder Partnership can reveal that for the first time in at least 200 years ospreys
are nesting and are believed to have had chicks in Northumberland.
One-to-one consultation sessions with landowners, livestock managers
and wildlife experts about the possible introduction of white-tailed sea eagles
to Norfolk have been building a clearer picture of views on the project.
Young
rooks are out feeding in the fields with their parents. Unlike young starlings,
which go off in flocks on their own, the young rooks generally stay with their
parents and the other families from the rookery.
The future of the State’s second-largest
lake, Lough Corrib, is threatened by an invasive plant sold in garden centres,
the Central Fisheries Board has warned.
Worried wildlife lovers are launching an all-out assault on an
alien plant invader which is spreading out of control in a picturesque Sheffield
valley.
British dolphins have travelled
a record-breaking distance from Scotland's east coast to Ireland, research backed
by an international environment charity has discovered.
Sizewell nuclear
disaster averted by dirty laundry, says official report
A nuclear leak, which could have caused a major disaster, was
only averted by a chance decision to wash some dirty clothes, according to a newly
obtained official report.
Construction of Europe's largest wheat refinery at Wilton on
Teesside is almost complete and the plant is on track to beginning bioethanol
production later this summer.
New guide takes
visitors to hills on walk on wild side
Visitors
to the Mendip Hills are being invited to take a walk on the wild side with the
help of a new illustrated guide to eight walks in the area of outstanding natural
beauty.
TransCanada Corporation commits a million dollars to bird conservation
As millions of migratory birds return northwards from their non-breeding
grounds, Nature Canada (BirdLife Partner) has announced that TransCanada Corporation
will support an initiative to protect important bird habitat across the country.
Greens oppose recreational hunting
in national parks
A new bill that
would open the state's national parks and reserves to recreational hunters who
could be licensed to shoot native animals and birds has been condemned by the
NSW Greens, the Liberal Party and environmental groups.
Hormone experts said on Wednesday they are becoming worried by
a chemical called bisphenol A, which some politicians say they want taken out
of products and which consumers are increasingly shunning.
The environmental record of the outgoing European Commission
is worryingly off target. This is the outcome of the report published today in
Brussels by the ‘Green 10’, the coalition of leading environmental organisations,
of which BirdLife International is a member.
India plans more solar power, slower
emissions rise
India will submit plans
within weeks to slow its rise in carbon emissions significantly and to generate
more solar power by 2020 than the whole world generates now, a senior climate
official said on Thursday.
Climate change worsens disaster risks for poor: U.N.
Climate change will aggravate natural disasters and people in
developing nations such as Dominica, Vanuatu, Myanmar and Guatemala are most at
risk, a U.N.-backed study showed Thursday.
World science academies push for G8 climate action
The world's richest countries and those that are developing fastest
need to lead the transition to an energy-efficient and low-carbon economy to stave
off the worst effects of climate change, science academies from these nations
said on Thursday.
Environmental legislators from the 13 countries with the largest
greenhouse gases emissions are meeting in Rome this Friday and Saturday to discuss
steps towards the UN climate change conference scheduled in December in Copenhagen.
US nuclear industry
tries to hijack Obama's climate change bill
America's
nuclear industry and its supporters in Congress have moved to hijack Barack Obama's
agenda for greening the economy by producing a rival plan to build 100 new reactors
in 20 years ...
Chevron CEO says U.S. 2050 carbon goals too ambitious
The head of oil company Chevron Corp said efforts to cut U.S.
carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 were unrealistic because so much current
energy infrastructure would have to be replaced.
The UK needs to cut greenhouse gases by 45 per cent by 2020 to
prevent the world "lurching into climate disaster", according to a new report
from Oxfam.
