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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Northern Ireland

Ireland's wildlife audit unveiled
Yahoo! News | 23 Mar 2011
Ireland's scenic mountains woodlands and waterways are home to more than 31000 different species of flora and fauna.

Forecasts see water pipes rethink
Yahoo! News | 19 Jan 2011
Forecasts of another seven years of the extreme winter that triggered the burst pipes crisis in Northern Ireland may force changes to how water is plumbed into homes the regional development minister has warned.

Northern Ireland | Climate Variability | Economics and the Environment | Energy Consumption | Extreme Weather

Cold weather hits business activity
Yahoo! News | 17 Jan 2011
Cold weather saw Northern Ireland business activity decrease at its fastest rate in almost two years.

Northern Ireland | Economics and the Environment | Extreme Weather

Northern Ireland Water chief resigns over crisis
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Jan 2011
Laurence MacKenzie steps down after thousands of households left without water over Christmas and New Year. The head of Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has resigned over the mishandling of the water crisis that hit the province over Christmas and the New Year in the wake of freezing temperatures. The...

Northern Ireland | Health and Environment | Urban Planning | Urban Water and Sanitation | Water Management

Northern Ireland's green homes by the sea
Green Building Press | 10 Oct 2010
Some of Northern Ireland's most energy efficient homes are to be built in the scenic seaside village of Carnlough. The Stormont Social Development Minister, Alex Attwood, has paid a visit to the site of the old Drumalla House which has made way for the innovative Co Antrim project.

Northern Ireland | Energy Efficiency | Urban Environment | Energy Conservation

NI Green Party in new jobs pledge
BBC | 22 Apr 2010
The Green Party of Northern Ireland launches its election manifesto with a focus on jobs and disillusioned voters.

Northern Ireland | Governance | Renewable Energy

University told to hand over data
BBC World Service | 15 Apr 2010
Queen's University in Belfast has been told by the Information Commissioner to hand over 40 years of research data on tree rings.

Northern Ireland | Climate Change | Science and Environment

James Orr becomes Director of Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 22 Mar 2010
The new Northern Ireland Director of Friends of the Earth, James Orr, takes up his post today (Monday 22 March 2010).

Northern Ireland

Cold tides making water boil
BBC | 15 Mar 2010
The waters of Strangford Lough run cold, fast and deep, but the experimental technology being tested in Northern Ireland is being promoted as one of the ways to reduce the UK's carbon emissions.

Northern Ireland | Carbon Storage | Climate Change

Sea trout subject of £1.8m study
BBC World Service | 11 Mar 2010
A project aims to discover more about the life and pressures on the sewin or sea trout in Wales and Ireland.

Northern Ireland | Wales | Fisheries

The farming forecast
BBC World Service | 09 Mar 2010
With increasing emphasis being placed on low carbon and sustainable farming, our Rural Affairs Correspondent, Martin Cassidy, looks at the future of agriculture in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland | Carbon Storage | Farming Practices | Global Warming

Boris Johnson speech to enironment agency
Guardian Unlimited | 26 Nov 2008
This has been Johnson's big environment policy day, with the launch of his Help A London Park programme and a speech to the Environment Agency conference this afternoon. The Labour group has responded sharply, claiming that the mayor has cut half a million pounds from the environment budget. Murad Qureshi: "It appears Boris can only see projects in terms of the cost on a balance sheet. ...

Action urged to protect deep seas
BBC | 19 Jun 2006
Urgent action is needed to protect the world's oceans from human exploitation, according to conservationists.

New homes drive out rare wildlife
Guardian Unlimited | 19 Jun 2006
Government plans to build hundreds of thousands of new houses across Britain are a greater threat to the country's most at-risk species and habitats than climate change.

Humpback whales: Licence to kill
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
Humpback whales - the best loved and one of the most endangered of all the giant mammals - are to be slaughtered for the first time in more than 30 years, in defiance of an international ban.

Saved from extinction, the demoiselle damselfly
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
One of Britain's most striking insects is making a comeback that is as spectacular as its appearance - thanks both to pollution and an environmental clean-up operation.

Greenpeace says M&S is the best
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
For decades, British supermarkets have fought to provide the cheapest baked beans, knickers and fish fingers. But this year's battle on the high street is for the "green pound", and environmentalists have declared one store the winner: Marks and Sparks.

Hunt for the humpback
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
Herman Melville described them as 'the most gamesome and lighthearted' of whales. Their leaping and singing have captivated the human race. And Japan wants to kill 50 of them next year

Hundreds of black bears face slaughter after Army abandons trial of synthetic fur for Guards' ceremo...
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
As a show of British military finery, the Trooping of the Colour has had no equal for 258 years.

Police investigate poisoning of golden eagle
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
Police are investigating the poisoning of one of Britain's rarest birds, a golden eagle.

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