Climate Change Authority's plan is 'a dog's breakfast', say dissenting members
Climate scientist and economist publish minority report calling for full emissions trading scheme and closure of brown-coal-fired power plants The Climate Change Authority’s latest report is a “recipe for further delay” on climate change, contravenes the authority’s legal obligations and recommends “a dog’s breakfast” of policies, say two key members in a dissenting minority report. […]
Eastern gorilla now critically endangered due to illegal hunting
Largest living primate joins three other great ape species on International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list, but pandas no longer endangered Humanity has moved a step closer to wiping out our closest evolutionary relatives, with four of the six great ape species now listed internationally as critically endangered. The International Union for Conservation […]
Eastern Gorilla now 'critically endangered', says world conservation congress – in pictures
Orangutans, Gorillas, Duiker antelopes, and Plains Zebras, are amongst the animals that have moved up the global list of endangered species Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
First they came for our plastic bags, now they’re coming for our coffee cups
Having led the way with the coalition’s popular 5p bag levy, the Lib Dems have another cunning plan … Name: The 5p cup charge. Status: Just a possibility. Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
North Dakota pipeline protest turns violent after cultural sites destroyed
Tribal officials say at least 30 people were pepper-sprayed after confronting construction crews for destroying burial and cultural sites near a reservation A protest against a four-state, $3.8bn oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota. Morton County sheriff’s […]
US beekeepers fear for livelihoods as anti-Zika toxin kills 2.5m bees
‘It kills everything’: conservationist warns over threat to other animals Regulators: ‘clear and public health crisis’ allows use of Naled chemical Huddled around their hives, beekeepers around the south-eastern US fear a new threat to their livelihood: a fine mist beaded with neurotoxin, sprayed from the sky by officials at war with mosquitos that carry […]
The National Trust, the sheep farm and the fight for a Lakes way of life
In the Lake District’s Borrowdale Valley, farmers – and Melvyn Bragg – are pitted against the country’s guardian of natural treasures Deep in the Borrowdale valley, where England is observed in its finest garments, there is ferment in the fields and on the hillsides. The gnarled farming communities who toil with their sheep on these […]
‘Human swan’ conservationist takes to skies on 4,600-mile migration
Sacha Dench will use a motorised paraglider to track the Bewick’s swan on its journey from Siberia and discover why numbers are falling In a few days, conservationist Sacha Dench will take to the air in the most unusual company. She will launch herself from the tundra of Siberia in a motorised paraglider and, when […]
Fantasy art: the future of energy and water technology – in pictures
They look like designs from the pages of a futurist’s notepad, but the concepts below are all finalists in the biennial public art contest held by the Land Art Generator Initiative (Lagi). These ideas illustrate the possibility of marrying aesthetics with renewable energy and water technology and educate the public about the challenges of addressing […]
Latin America's largest Ramsar Site facing 586 km transmission line
Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon demand to be consulted about electricity project that would cut through their territories Indigenous peoples in Peru are demanding to be consulted about a proposed electricity transmission line that would run for approximately 586 kms through the Amazon. The stated aim of the line is to connect Iquitos in Peru’s […]