Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Sanitation

Current economic growth model is 'immoral', says Prescott
Guardian Unlimited | 04 Sep 2009
With the world's population growing to nine million by 2050, the Britain's former deputy PM predicts far more crucial and complex talks in Copenhagen than in Kyoto

Edinburgh's sewage to help biofuels grow
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 29 Jun 2006
Sewage sludge from Edinburgh's waste water will fertilise fields of biofuel crops, as the first sewage-to-biofuel scheme of its kind in the UK kind gets under way.

Climate Change | Renewable Energy | Sanitation | Urban Water and Sanitation | Urban Water Resources

Now allotments go organic in Edinburgh
The Herald | 29 Jun 2006
Scotland's first organic allotments which feature eco-friendly flush-free toilets were opened last night.

Health and Environment | Sanitation

"Housing associations must meet sustainability standards" - London Mayor
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 23 Jun 2006
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has told edie he wants to see housing associations taking the lead on sustainable development - in the hopes that the private sector will follow.

Sanitation | Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment | Urban Planning | Urban Pollution

Road and dam building 'threaten Indian fish supplies'
SCIDEV.NET | 18 May 2006
Scientists have warned that development projects in the northeast of India are degrading rivers and putting fish populations at risk of extinction.

Government welcomes report on affordable rural housing
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 18 May 2006
A new report which highlights the need for more homes to help families in rural areas has been welcomed by Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Miliband.

Industry given a licence to pollute
WWF-UK | 17 May 2006
Newly released figures confirm that European countries have failed to set sufficiently tough limits on pollution from industry.

Toxic warnings for nano industry
BBC | 05 May 2006
Industry should disclose how it tests products containing nanoparticles, the Royal Society of the UK has said.

Bad air clouds Hong Kong's future as global hub
Reuters | 04 May 2006
Mark Williams, one of Hong Kong's top marathon runners, has had enough of the city's dirty air and is leaving for New Zealand with his wife and two young children in July.

Executive transport plan 'not good enough' - NGO
Green Consumer Guide | 27 Apr 2006
The Scottish Executive has been slammed by green group Friends of the Earth for backing what it describes as pollution-generating projects and failing to address the issue of transport pollution, following the publication of a consultation.

Air quality indicator for sustainable development 2005 (final figures)
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 25 Apr 2006
The air quality indicator is one of the 68 indicators of the Governments new Sustainable Development Strategy. It presents trends for annual levels of particulate and ozone pollution, the two pollutants thought to have the greatest health impacts, as well as the number of days on which levels of any one of a basket of five pollutants were moderate or higher.

Road charging 'vital to reduce pollution'
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2006
The government will today say a national road charging programme will be a vital tool in cutting pollution levels that reduce life expectancy by eight months and threaten the environment.

Commissioner takes smoking test
Green Consumer Guide | 05 Apr 2006
European Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou and other Commissioners have had their breaths tested for carbon monoxide (CO) as part of the EUs ongoing anti-smoking campaign.

Ten years down the road: car giant foresees the non-polluting, accident-proof saloon
Guardian Unlimited | 31 Mar 2006
Toyota has set out its vision for the future of motoring. It envisages accident-proof eco-cars, powered by a non-polluting engine that can clean the air around it, running on open roads free of congestion.

Euro-MPs debate mercury crackdown
BBC | 14 Mar 2006
Tough measures to reduce the use of mercury in Europe are to be debated in the European parliament.

China province may close down industrial polluters
Reuters | 07 Mar 2006
The Chinese province of Hunan, home to China's largest zinc smelter, is considering closing heavy industrial plants that pollute, a senior government official said on Monday.

Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050
BBC | 06 Mar 2006
Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says.

Britain is worst in Europe for power station pollution
The Independent | 06 Mar 2006
Britain is Europe's worst polluter, with 18 of the continent's 50 filthiest power stations, which are responsible for killing more than 7,600 people a year, a new report concludes.

Longannet emissions 'kill 690 Europeans every year'
Sunday Herald | 27 Feb 2006
Pollution from the Longannet power station in Fife is killing 690 people every year in Europe, making it one of the continents dirtiest and most dangerous indust- rial plants.

China warns officials against covering up pollution
Reuters | 21 Feb 2006
China has warned local environmental protection officials that they will be punished if they allow or cover up damage to the environment in favor of economic growth, state media said on Tuesday.

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