Do you know your endangered species? – video
The World Wildlife Foundation surveyed 2000 UK adults about their knowledge of endangered species. Roughly a third didn’t know giant pandas and snow leopards are under threat, while a fifth thought cows and grey squirrels are. One in four thought the dodo and brachiosaurus still exist! Do you know your wild species at risk? – […]
Anti-fracking camps planned in Yorkshire and Lancashire
Campaigners fear more sites will get green light after decision to let Third Energy carry out test drilling in Kirby Misperton Anti-fracking campaigners are threatening to set up protest camps in Yorkshire and Lancashire to prevent energy companies drilling for shale gas. The fracking firm Third Energy was given permission on Monday to carry out […]
UN expert calls for tax on meat production
People could be deterred from eating meat by increasing its price further up the supply chain, stemming rise in consumption and environmental damage Governments should tax meat production in order to stem the global rise in consumption and the environmental damage that goes with it, according to a UN expert. The world faces serious environmental […]
Why do you so rarely see dead birds?
Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts Why is it that you never see bird corpses (except those the cat brings in) when the countryside should be littered with them? Where do they go to die? John Parke, London SW14 Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
The hidden risks of climbing Mount Everest – video
Three climbers have died on Mount Everest in the past week, all succumbing to altitude sickness after reaching the summit. The increasing number of deaths on the world’s tallest mountain is raising fresh fears about overcrowding and the ethics of commercial mountaineering on Everest Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
Why dinosaur extinction is only half the story of killer asteroid's impact | Susannah Lydon
We tend to focus on the extinction of the dinosaurs, but the plant fossil record holds different parts of the story of life – and death – at the end of the Cretaceous The extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, is the most well-known of the “Big Five” […]
Global clean energy employment rose 5% in 2015, figures show
More than 8 million people were employed worldwide in the renewable energy sector last year as rapidly falling costs drove growth in the industry A boom in solar and wind power jobs in the US led the way to a global increase in renewable energy employment to more than 8 million people in 2015, according […]
Universities of Newcastle and Southampton join fossil fuel divestment push
Newcastle University latest to announce it will pursue investment decisions that are compatible with its sustainability values, reports BusinessGreen As the world’s leading oil and gas majors this week face a series of questions about their ability to respond to escalating climate risks, two of the UK’s leading universities have become the latest institutions to […]
How to re-think plastics – interview with Chris Grantham, IDEO
“Now is the time for implementation. We must now begin to practice what we have preached – changing our production and consumption patterns in order to create virtuous cycles rather than depletive ones and harnessing the global interconnectedness, communications technology and breakthroughs in materials science.” This is the sentiment with which President of the UN […]
Great Barrier Reef: advisers call for cap on farm pollution
Taskforce head reportedly tells Queensland government ‘we’re stuffed with a capital S’ if water quality isn’t improved A cap on pollution from farms close to the Great Barrier Reef has been proposed by advisers to the Queensland government. The Great Barrier Reef water science taskforce, which advises the Queensland government on how to meet pollution […]