Study
finds "no evidence" that badgers give TB to cattle
The Badger Trust strongly challenges claims by the Scottish Agricultural
College (SAC) that "TB could be passed from badgers to cattle" through contact
between cattle and badgers in the field.
The perpetrators are unlikely to do bird or even be hauled in
front of the beak. But a sudden and inexplicable upsurge in animal-on-animal violence
has left welfare officers struggling to cope.
Deadly parasite could endanger salmon and trout populations in
U.K.
Stocks of the
UK’s Atlantic salmon along with varieties of domestic brown trout could be under
threat from a deadly parasite according to research led by Bournemouth University
(BU) and published in the International Journal of Parasitology.
The scale of safety problems inside Britain's nuclear power stations
has been revealed for the first time in a secret report obtained by the Observer
that shows more than 1,750 leaks, breakdowns or other "events" over the past seven
years.
For centuries
they were sworn enemies, two fearsome clans who raided each other's territories
to pillage and murder on the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis.
Though still an
island, Britain is now surrounded by desert. New research has shown that repeated
trawling has turned much of the sea bed around the UK into a barren wasteland.
An environment protection agency
is urging people to look after the North-East's green spaces to improve the region's
long-term economy and well-being.
A record number of rule-breaking,
stinking, pollution-spewing industrial plants across the country are named and
shamed by the government's official green watchdog this weekend.
The resistance pattern for antibiotics
in gulls is the same as in humans, and a new study by Uppsala University researchers
shows that nearly half of Mediterranean gulls in southern France have some form
of resistance to antibiotics.
Brazil to
pay Amazon small farmers to plant trees: Lula
Brazil
will pay small farmers to plant trees in deforested Amazon areas to slow rain
forest degradation, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday as he unveiled
a broad plan to protect the region.
Desert
icon Joshua trees are vanishing, scientists say
A breeze stirs the silence at Joshua Tree National Park as a
red-tailed hawk takes flight from the spiky arm of one of the namesake plants
in search of breakfast.
Destroying levees in a
state usually clamoring for them
In
the 1960s, a group of businessmen bought 16,000 acres of swampy bottomland along
the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana and built miles of levee around it.
Europe to hunt more whales than
Japan, figures show
Europe plans to
hunt more whales than Japan for the first time in many years, dividing EU countries
and dismaying conservationists who say that whaling is escalating in response
to the worldwide recession.
Why what happens to this Scottish power station could make life
even harder for this farmer in Malawi
In
three days time the Scottish Parliament will take the most important decision
of its life. Ministers and MSPs will vote on what the nation will do over the
next few years to combat one of the greatest threats facing the world.
One contributor to global warming -- bigger than coal mines,
landfills and sewage treatment plants -- is being left out of efforts by the Obama
administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Vermont dairy farmers
Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint,
have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy
cows' contribution to global warming.
Ecologists’ own goal: ozone saver is global
warmer
The green movement’s greatest
triumph – the abolition of ozone-destroying CFC gases in the 1980s – may become
its biggest embarrassment because of research showing that their replacements
are sharply accelerating global warming.
Banning certain fishing gear can help
save reefs from climate change
Banning
or restricting the use of certain types of fishing gear could help the world's
coral reefs and their fish populations survive the onslaughts of climate change
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