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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Coastal and Marine Issues

In praise of... Sunderland Point
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Nov 2010
Choosing what to protect of Britain's vulnerable coastline is a difficult balancing act. Choosing what to protect and what to try to save from the stormy waters around the British coast is an invidious task. Sunderland Point (that's Sunderland, Lancashire, not Sunderland, Tyne and Wear) is typical...

Hoaxers target new Chevron advertising campaign
Reuters | 18 Oct 2010
Chevron Corp launched a new advertising campaign on Monday to address negative perceptions of big oil companies, but a bogus release and website by activist hoaxers and an environmental group quickly sought to turn the tables on the company.

Accidents and Spills | Coastal and Marine Issues | Corporate Social Responsibility | Energy Production | Environmental Awareness

We can't use it - so why the heck are we prospecting for new oil? | George Monbiot
Guardian Unlimited | 27 Sep 2010
To stop runaway climate change we have to get out of fossil fuels. Drilling off Shetland and in the Arctic makes no sense. Forget, for a moment, the fragility of the Arctic environment and the likely consequences of a spill there. Forget the dangers of deepwater drilling in a strait plagued by storms and icebergs, and the difficulties - greater than in the Gulf of Mexico – of capping a leaking well there.

England | Climate Change | Coastal and Marine Issues | Energy Production | Fossil Fuels

BP oil leak aftermath: Slow-motion tragedy unfolds for marine life
Guardian Unlimited | 10 Jun 2010
The wildlife haven Grand Isle is at the heart of the environmental catastrophe engulfing LouisianaOut on the water, it starts as a slight rainbow shimmer, then turns to wide orange streamers of oil whipping through the waves. Later, on the beach, we witness a vast, Olympic-sized swimming pool of...

England | Accidents and Spills | Coastal and Marine Issues | Disasters

Dispersant 'may make Deepwater Horizon oil spill more toxic'
Guardian Unlimited | 05 May 2010
Scientists fear chemicals used in oil clean-up can cause genetic mutations and cancer, and threaten sea turtles and tuna.

Accidents and Spills | Coastal and Marine Issues | Disasters | Water Pollution

Parties discuss coastal erosion
BBC World Service | 28 Apr 2010
Plans to deal with coastal erosion in the East have been outlined by the three main parties.

England | Climate Change | Coastal and Marine Issues | Governance

An inconvenient truth: beware the politician in fleece clothing
Guardian Unlimited | 14 Sep 2006
Al Gore's film delivers a stunning lesson on global warming. It should also alert Britons to the danger of voting on personality

Most corals unable to adapt to warming oceans
New Scientist | 14 Sep 2006
Three-quarters of the worlds coral reefs may lack the ability to cope with climate change, despite previous optimistic predictions, according to a new review of coral research.

Coastal and Marine Issues | Conservation

Norway fails to fulfil whaling quota
Guardian Unlimited | 22 Aug 2006
Norway will not be able to fulfil its whaling quota this year in what conservation groups are claiming is proof that the government should no longer support the industry.

Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Coastal and Marine Issues | Coastal Development and Tourism

Nine climate change champions depart for Switzerland to learn more about effects of global warming
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 20 Jul 2006
Nine climate change champions from across England will next week depart by train to Switzerland to see how global warming is affecting Swiss glaciers.

Killer whales spotted off NI coast
BBC | 19 Jul 2006
Killer whales have been spotted off the coast of Northern Ireland, some close to the shore.

Biodiversity and Trade | Biodiversity Conservation | Coastal and Marine Issues | Global Warming | Water Pollution

Norway's whale catch falls short
BBC | 18 Jul 2006
Norway's whaling fleet will catch only half of its quota this season.

Coastal and Marine Issues | Encroachment on Ecosystems | Marine Life

Ulster civil servants at loggerheads over £59m green energy scheme
Belfast Telegraph | 18 Jul 2006
An internal Civil Service row over a multi-million pound Government boost aimed at around 4,000 Northern Ireland homes can be revealed today. Fears over the future of the £59m scheme - a personal priority of Secretary of State Peter Hain - have led to warnings that it may not reach its targets.

Economists must take climate change seriously say scientists
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 17 Jul 2006
With 'compelling evidence' backing the scientific case for man-made climate change it is time for economists to turn up the heat in the battle to reduce greenhouse gases, says the Royal Society.

Sea wall breached creates UK's largest wetland as flood defence
Environment Times | 17 Jul 2006
The UK's largest man-made wetland has been created by breaking the sea wall defences at Wallasea Island in the south east England county of Essex in order to create a natural buffer which will improve flood defences and create a prime wildlife habitat too.

Coastal and Marine Issues

Global warming 'will cancel out Western aid and devastate Africa'
The Independent | 13 Jul 2006
Climate change could have a devastating impact on Africa, wiping out all the benefits from the measures to help the continent agreed by the world's richest nations last year.

Council unveils wind turbine plan
BBC | 12 Jul 2006
A council announces plans to go green and install wind turbines on the roof of one of its buildings.

MP condemns spending on aquarium
BBC | 04 Jul 2006
An MP criticises spending on a project to build the world's largest freshwater aquarium.

Coastal and Marine Issues | Fish Farming | Fisheries | Freshwater

Credits cut 'will raise prices'
Telegraph | 30 Jun 2006
Business groups hit out at the Government for cutting its cap on carbon emissions which they say will push up energy prices and make Britain less competitive.

EU emissions spark new effort
Green Consumer Guide | 29 Jun 2006
The European Commission has vowed to intensify climate change efforts, following last weeks publication figures that showed an increase in emissions during the last two years across the region.

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