Total ban on ivory sales would endanger art | Letters
A singularly distinguished roster of scientists, and others, with an interest in wildlife conservation have signed a petition calling for Theresa May to impose a “total UK ban on ivory sales” (Conservationists and MPs call for a total UK ban on ivory sales, theguardian.com, 22 September), claiming that Andrea Leadsom’s announcement of a ban on post-1947 […]
No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth | George Monbiot
The Paris climate change agreement is worthless. Politicians can’t possibly honour it unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reserves Do they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments such as ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change, haven’t the faintest idea what it means – either that or […]
Greenland's receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project
Camp Century – part of Project Iceworm – is underground cold war network that had been thought buried forever, until climate change made that highly unlikely A top-secret US military project from the cold war and the toxic waste it conceals, thought to have been buried forever beneath the Greenland icecap, are likely to be […]
Do you live in an area where proposed fracking is condemned by your council?
If you live in an area where your council is opposed to fracking, we’d like to hear from you. Get in touch below Within the next fortnight, the government will decide whether to accept shale company Cuadrilla’s appeal against Lancashire county council’s decision last year to turn down its application for two fracking sites. Related: […]
Bid to drill shale wells in Nottinghamshire 'should get green light'
Officials say IGas application to drill two wells at Springs Road, former cold war missile launch site, should be approved A planning application to drill two exploratory shale gas wells at a former cold war missile launch site in north Nottinghamshire should go ahead, officials have said. In a report hundreds of pages long, planning […]
Mining in Malawi brings forced evictions and ruined crops, report says
Human Rights Watch claims the government is failing to protect local communities from environmental impact of mining around Lake Malawi Villagers in Malawi have been forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for coal and uranium mines and consequently face serious problems accessing safe water, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, which […]
Brexit ‘could trigger’ UK departure from nuclear energy treaty
The UK’s withdrawal from the EU could also force it to exit the Euratom treaty on nuclear energy, ENDS has learned The UK’s withdrawal from the EU could also force it to exit the Euratom Treaty on nuclear energy, ENDS has learned. The Euratom Treaty, which applies to all EU member states, seeks to promote […]
Council asks for child’s birth certificate before it will collect nappies
Anger in Anglesey after parents told they must prove their child is under three if they want binmen to collect dirty nappies A local authority in north Wales has told parents they must show their children’s birth certificates if they want binmen to collect dirty nappies. Waste management teams at Anglesey council have introduced the […]
Shale gas ban 'would cement decline of UK manufacturing'
As Ineos takes first shale gas shipment from US, its CEO Jim Ratcliffe says without fracking UK manufacturing’s future is ‘gloomy’ The billionaire hoping to become Britain’s biggest fracker has said banning shale gas would cement the decline of UK manufacturing, as he brushed off environmental concerns about the hotly disputed energy source. Speaking as […]
China accused of defying its own ban on breeding tigers to profit from body parts
Beijing faces pressure at global summit to close 200 farms where tigers are bred for luxury goods and end its obstructive tactics China has been accused of deceiving the international community by allowing a network of farms to breed thousands of captive tigers for the sale of their body parts, in breach of their own […]