An East Anglian farm dedicated to countryside conservation
has launched a small but determined attempt to help save the iconic
red squirrel from extinction.
The Rt Hon. David Cameron, the Prime Minister said
on BBC Countryfile: “When you’ve got all this evidence
that culling should be part of a balanced packet of measures do you
just sweep it under the carpet and announce a further review or do
you get on and make this work . . ''
National park throws out plans for 'Nelson's Column'-sized
turbine
National park planners have rejected a farmer’s
proposal for a wind turbine almost has high as Nelson’s Column,
saying approving it could set a precedent in other national parks.
High-tech radar deal clears 4GW of UK wind power
for take-off
Some 4GW of stalled wind farm projects off the east
coast of Britain have been cleared for take-off following finalisation
of a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract to install innovative
radar systems that counter interference by turbine rotor-blades.
The world's first tidal current energy turbine, in
Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough, has been given an environmental
all-clear by a group of scientists.
Ale drinkers raise £2,700 for Norfolk Wildlife
Trust
Ale drinkers have helped to raise £2,700 to
protect wildlife habitats across Norfolk by drinking more than a
quarter of a million pints in the last year.
Terence Blacker: Enough of townie prejudice against
the countryside
Most of the time, those of us who happen to live
in the country are happy to ignore the casual urban prejudice which
characterises British politics and the media.
The Government has been accused of "appalling
complacency" after it emerged that not a single minister has
met with the Environment Agency's experts to discuss the hugely
controversial gas exploration technique known as fracking.
Exactly one hundred years ago, workers and engineers
at the small town of Oppau near Ludwigshafen, Germany, were busy constructing
a new factory that would start a more drastic change to global biogeochemistry
than any other human intervention before or since.
New research sheds light on whale by-catch in the Korean
peninsula
New published research ... has shed light on one of
the most contentious issues in global conservation – the sale
of skin, blubber and meat from whales caught accidentally.
Near the Mediterranean resort of Sète, on a
140-hectare expanse of wetland that used to be the Villeroy salt marsh
and now belongs to France's Conservatoire du Littoral (CDL), a little
island of seashells mixed with sand and salt has just been laid out
for the birds.
The government's Green Deal aims to deliver large
cuts in carbon emissions. But official figures show it will mean
a dramatic fall in British homes being insulated to make them more
energy-efficient.
The green deal will be the biggest home energy programme
of modern times
2012 is set to be a monumental year for Britain.
Of course we are looking forward to the diamond jubilee and the
Olympics, but it's also the year in which we'll launch the pioneering
green deal, unleashing real competitive forces in the energy efficiency
market.
U.K.’s Osborne backs green-energy research
projects with China
U.K. Chancellor of the ExchequerGeorge Osborne backed
joint scientific research projects intostem cells and green energy
with China as he sought to forge links with companies in the world’s
fastest growing economy.
NGOs upbeat over China's environmental transparency
progress
Green activists applauded steady progress on environmental
transparency in China after public campaigns forced major players,
including Apple and the Beijing government, to release sensitive
information on pollution and its origins.
Insight: climate change likely to increase isolation
of dead zones
Oceanic oxygen minimum zones – regions with
very low dissolved oxygen content in the eastern tropical Atlantic
and Pacific oceans – limit the habitat of many marine species
and enhance the formation of greenhouse gases.
Michael Mann vows to keep up the "street fight"
against climate change deniers
Scientists are in a “street fight” to
prove climate change is happening, according to Michael Mann, the
physicist who first created the controversial hockey stick graph.
Wild-caught, farmed fish have same climate impact,
study shows
Cod and plaice fished in the North Sea have the same
environmental impact as farmed salmon and tilapia, according to
a study by Dutch agricultural researcher LEI, an affiliate of Wageningen
University.
Saving Devon's precious pearls