High pesticide levels on oilseed rape crops harm wild bees, scientists prove
Species that feed most on the bright yellow flowers of the crop treated with controversial neonicotinoids have fallen by as much as 30% Pesticides used on oilseed rape crops, whose bright yellow flowers have become an increasingly common sight across the British countryside, are harming native populations of wild bees, scientists have conclusively proved. Species […]
Irish Times subeditor comes up with a perfect pun
Praise for the journalist who crafted a superb headline over a routine story I’m about to take a two-day break but I can’t go without mentioning a superb headline I came across in today’s Irish Times. It was over a fairly routine story about research at Galway university into the declining numbers of the “dark […]
Louisiana floods: state begins recovery from devastating storm – in pictures
Historic flash floods in the southern state have left at least seven people dead and caused more than 20,000 people to be rescued. The storm has put another 12,000 people into temporary shelters. Residents were pulled from water-logged homes, flooded cars and at-risk hospitals across the southern portion of the state Louisiana left stunned by […]
Meet the microbial bacteria that cleans water and generates electricity
What if sewage could be treated at a household level in an economically feasible and energy efficient way? It’s the challenge that Boston-based Cambrian Innovation has set itself and has begun field tests on at a plant called BioVolt in Maryland. Over 2000 litres of sewage can be converted into enough clean water each day […]
Louisiana left stunned by damage from '1,000-year' flood: 'It just kept coming'
In a state that stays prepared for hurricanes, the devastating floods that have left tens of thousands homeless seemed to creep up almost without notice An enormous and slow-moving rainstorm has laid waste to much of southern Louisiana, which the National Weather Service has called a “1,000-year” disaster. By Monday afternoon, more than 20,000 residents […]
Second phase of world's biggest offshore windfarm gets go-ahead
Multibillion-pound Hornsea Project Two, 55 miles off Grimsby coast, would see 300 turbines span an area five times size of Hull Plans for the world’s biggest offshore windfarm off the Yorkshire coast are to be expanded to an area five times the size of Hull after being approved by ministers. The multibillion-pound Hornsea Project Two […]
Disasters like Louisiana floods will worsen as planet warms, scientists warn
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to classify disaster as the eighth flood considered to be a once-in-every-500-years event in the US in a year The historic and devastating floods in Louisiana are the latest in a series of heavy deluges that some climate scientists warn will become even more common as the world continues to […]
Young Londoners launch independent air pollution billboard campaign
Artists teamed with photographer and volunteers to produce posters that will warn young people of air quality on some of the capital’s most polluted streets Young Londoners concerned about air pollution from traffic have launched an independent billboard campaign to warn their peers of the dangers of diesel fumes. Artists Vasilisa Forbes and Claire Matthews, […]
Amazon chiefs visit British Museum as part of dam-building protest
Leaders of the Munduruku people will be shown the storeroom’s head-dresses and other objects made by their tribe more than 150 years ago Amazonian leaders, in Britain to protest against the construction of several large dams which they say will destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people, will on Tuesday be shown head-dresses and […]
Elephant dies after 1,000-mile journey from India to Bangladesh
Conservation officials’ attempt to transport animal to safari park after it was separated from herd in floods in Assam fails An elephant thought to have travelled at least 1,000 miles (1,600km) from India into Bangladesh after floods separated it from the herd has died, despite efforts to save it. The distressed animal was tranquillised three […]