Spending cuts threaten Scotland's endangered species
Major projects to promote rare and endangered species
such as red squirrels, sea eagles and beavers are being threatened
by deep spending cuts imposed on Scotland's main nature conservation
agency.
The World’s heaviest flying bird is roaming across
almost 150 miles of the south west of England for the first time in
180 years signalling a remarkable conservation success story.
Scientists amazed after five migrating cuckoos ...
meet up in the same spot in Africa
Scientists have been left astonished after five cuckoos
who headed south from Britain for the winter have congregated in the
same little-known part of Africa.
The extent of Scotland's push to become the green
energy leader of the world is revealed today as figures show 2700
new onshore wind turbines are in the pipeline, taking the potential
total number stretching across the country to more than 4000.
Money for projects to cut flooding risk and boost
wildlife
Rural communities in Yorkshire are set to benefit
from thousands of pounds in funding to reduce the risk of flooding,
maintain farmland and create new wildlife habitats.
Vital work is being funded to help protect rare grassland
at Linby. Notts County Council has secured a grant of £25,000
for projects at the Linby Trails and a similar site near Teversal.
Ministers call for free vote on repeal of fox hunting
ban
The Agriculture minister, Jim Paice, has claimed
the Hunting Act is not working – renewing pressure on David
Cameron to schedule a free Commons vote on repealing the ban ...
Weaknesses in parliament's law-making procedures
have been exposed by a curious case encompassing a Tyneside egg-collector,
the hatching of a non-existent offence, and the criminalisation
of Britain's museums.
Long Preston Wet Grassland Project gets conservation
cash
A nationally important wetland in Craven is set to
receive £18,000 to enhance its wildlife conservation work
and to develop educational and tourism benefits.
Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn
One of the nation's most widely planted crops —
a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide
— may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears
to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.
Experts worried over massive harvesting of sea grass
common in Surigao
Sargassum or “samo”, a type of seaweed
that is abundant off the coast of Surigao del Norte, has become valuable
to some fisher folk, and locals now consider it a means to augment
income as overfishing continues to affect their main livelihood.
New Delhi rules out pact on legally binding emission cuts
The government today ruled out signing legally binding
global agreement for greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
as the country’s needs economic growth for poverty eradication.
The state environment department is trying to include
Sunderbans in the final draft of the state action plan on climate
change. The department is working on the final stages of preparing
the draft plan and is expected to submit it by January next year.
After Republicans took control of the House in the
2010 midterms, many observers predicted that it would be a fairly
quiet year on the energy and environmental fronts.
A 460-page, in-depth report ... says -- in no uncertain
terms -- that New York State’s climate is changing, and cautions
what its outcomes will be, and also offers recommendations for adapting
to it.
A recent study by an international group of evolutionary
biologists has pointed to six broad yet distinct ‘waves’
of climate-induced mammalian diversity in the last 65 million years
of evolution.
‘Climate change poses serious threat to food
security'
Climate change poses the most serious threat to agriculture
world over and to the food security, with countries like India facing
the most unfavourable crop prospects, according to Chief Operating
Officer of NutriPlus Knowledge Programme of ICRISAT Saikatdatta
Mazumdar.
