What does New York do with all that trash? One city's waste – in numbers
The Big Apple generates more than 14 million tonnes of rubbish a year, and spends around $2.3bn disposing of it – sometimes 7,000 miles away in China. Max Galka counts the costs of a city literally built on trash As the largest city in the world’s most wasteful country, New York generates more than 14 […]
Natural world faces collapse as wildlife population plummets | The daily briefing
Number of wild animals living on Earth set to fall by two-thirds; Trump hits back at Khizr Khan again; Afghanistan war ignored in US presidential campaign The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying […]
Squirrels and swingers: Colorado man defends his passions after police raid
Kendall Seifert says he’s being unfairly targeted after the state raided his unusual business premises, where he runs both a swingers club and a wildlife refuge Kendall Seifert’s chief passions in life are squirrels and swingers. Or, to put it another way, wildlife and wild sex. For the last few years he has maintained this […]
Could giving wild animals property rights help stop their decline? | John Hadley
Two-thirds of wild animals could be lost by 2020 and the biggest driver is destruction of their homes. A radical idea to give animals a ‘voice’ could encourage land managers to think about wild areas in a new way Researchers report that the future for the Earth’s wild animals is very bleak. Two-thirds will be […]
UK public support for fracking falls to lowest level
Just 17% of people surveyed back the process, the lowest level since the government survey started tracking public attitudes about shale gas Public support for fracking has fallen to new lows, a government survey has revealed. Just 17% of people backed the process of extracting shale gas, compared with a third who opposed it, and […]
Scheme to reopen river Severn to fish wins almost £20m in funding
Project to open up miles of the river to enable fish to reach spawning grounds will help to restore threatened and declining species A scheme to open up miles of the river Severn and its major tributary to help threatened fish has won almost £20m in funding. The £19.4m project will reopen the UK’s longest […]
Tour England's countryside in one London garden
Natural History Museum, London A short walk takes you on a wildlife journey that would otherwise take days of travel What would it look like if you tried to compress the English countryside into a 6,000 sq m metropolitan plot? Well, the wildlife garden at the Natural History Museum is as close to achieving the […]
A big day in Manchester for bird fanciers – archive, 27 October 1906
27 October 1906: Billed as the ‘most important exhibition of cage birds in the kingdom,’ Hulme Town Hall allows breeders to show 1,500 birds Just now the Hulme Town Hall is filled with the twittering of many canaries. It is the show of the Manchester and Northern Counties Ornithological Society, the most important exhibition of […]
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns
Living Planet Index shows vertebrate populations are set to decline by 67% on 1970 levels unless urgent action is taken to reduce humanity’s impact The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural […]
WA must embrace dawn of renewable energy era or risk being left behind
Western Australia could become a renewable energy superpower – if the government halts LNG expansion plans and creates an innovation fund Last year the world’s governments finally got their act together on climate change, agreeing to limit global warming to well under two degrees. To meet this commitment, we need a rapid global transition to […]