Four held after Arctic storm halts Greenland protest
Four Greenpeace activists who clung to an oil rig off western Greenland using rock-climbing gear have been arrested after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their protest.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Forest fires in Madeira put future of Europe's rarest seabird under threat
Europe's rarest seabird, the Zino's Petrel, found only in Madeira, has suffered potentially devastating losses from a forest fire which struck the birds' breeding area on the Atlantic island.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Could solar cells harm the environment?
Photovoltaic cells provide environmental benefits but unless properly disposed of they could amount to over 600,000 tons of un-recycled waste per year.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100 How to ensure you're 'buying green'
To avoid being 'greenwashed,' consumers cynical of corporate environmental claims can take a number of steps to ensure they are really buying 'green.'
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Hurricane threatens US holiday islands
Visitors and some residents were evacuated from low-lying holiday islands off the North Carolina coast yesterday as Hurricane Earl bore down on the US eastern seaboard, churning up dangerous swells.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 India's elephants finally given same protection as tigers
The humble hardworking elephant is not an animal that usually likes to complain. But over the years, while higher-profile, more urgently threatened species have been the subject of widescale conservation efforts, elephant numbers have been allowed to dwindle. Perhaps worse, the gender ratio ? since only males have tusks, it is they who are sought by poachers ? has become perilously skewed.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 One of the wettest, coldest Augusts
Last month brought the coldest temperature recorded in August for 23 years ? and a complete absence of "hot days", figures showed yesterday.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Protesters shut down 'dangerous' Arctic oil drill
Environmental campaigners today claimed to have shut down a "dangerous"
oil drilling operation by a British energy company in the Arctic.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:09:41 +0100 Chopsticks: The cutlery conundrum
For the humble chopstick, life is predictable. Start off as a tree, one of the 25 million felled each year for the purpose. Spend a brief few weeks, newly-whittled, encased in paper. Then wind up on someone's plate, where you are expertly used to shovel noodles, or rice, or meat into a mouth. Then that's it. It's time to face the great landfill in the sky.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 What is the best poem about the British countryside?
Britishness as a cultural identity has become surrounded by doubts and misgivings in recent years, partly because in a multicultural society it has begun to seem exclusive (to some), and it has been aggressively appropriated by the far right. Yet it is clear, from many markers, that a sense of Britishness stubbornly persists in millions of people, and that a very prominent component of this is a feeling for the countryside.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 IPCC feels the heat as it is told to get its facts right about global warming
The powerful international body set up to advise governments on the effects of global warming needs a major overhaul if it is not to repeat errors that damaged its credibility and gave succour to climate change sceptics, an independent investigation has concluded.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5°
The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses suggest. The failure of last December's UN climate summit in Copenhagen means that cuts in carbon emissions pledged by the international community will not be enough to keep the anticipated warming within safe limits.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Activists ready to sabotage French bird-hunters
French ornithologists are waging an increasingly sophisticated war against the hunting of the ortolan, a songbird which is regarded by gastronomes ? when eaten beak, bones and all ? as the ultimate in sinful pleasure.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Star names try to beat slump in eco-clothing
The dream of eco-friendly, fashion is not wearing well. While high-profile new eco-clothing lines from the designer Katharine Hamnett and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde may give the appearance that it is boom time for environmentally friendly fashion, stagnant sales figures are leading analysts to question whether there really is a market for sustainable style.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Are we losing the fight to save our hedgerows?
They are the living seams that have typified the British countryside for centuries. But now hedgerows are disappearing fast, and a report published tomorrow will say we are not doing enough to protect them.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 It's a greener shade of green: Britain's first organic golf course
With their diamond-patterned jumpers, neatly pressed slacks and expensive club memberships, most golfers seem to have little in common with the unwashed eco-warrior brigade. The divide between the two groups is not just sartorial, but stems from the fact that many golf clubs use huge amounts of water, disfigure the landscape and use fertilisers and pesticides to keep their greens lush. However, this gulf may soon be bridged, as a Cambridgeshire club which boasts a full-time ecologist, not to mention a resident stoat at the eighth hole, is poised to become the UK's first organic golf club.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Bio-plastics: Cashew nut computers?
A unique plastic made from cashew nut shells could be used in consumer electronics by 2013.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Return of the seals delights tourists in northern France
Victims of hunters, seals had almost disappeared from the coasts of northern France at the end of the 1970s, but in the past few years they have come back, to the delight of tourists.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Simon Usborne: 'Nick Dodds was diagnosed with testicular cancer ? but as he fought back, doctors told him to ride again'
It's easy, as a bike bore, to get caught up in a cycle of vanity and obsession. You get fixated on gears, seeking out water bottles to match your paintjob, or checking your form in shop windows (no, really). But now and then you meet someone who reminds you it really isn't about the bike.
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Far from the sea, urban seagulls terrorise skies
Britain's population of urban seagulls, the source of increasing complaints about dirt, health threats, noise and attacks on people, is now rising so fast that it may reach one million birds by 2020 if concerted action is not taken to manage the problem.
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