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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Land Tenure Issues

Attention! Military land mountain bikers!
Guardian Unlimited | 24 Jan 2011
Continued reluctance to discuss the issue of biking on military land could leave responsible cyclists excluded from the debate. South-east England may not be blessed with the type of angular geography enjoyed by mountain bikers in Wales, Scotland and northern England, but with acres of army land as...

Prince Charles to challenge ban on farmland housing
Guardian Unlimited | 19 Jan 2011
Prince of Wales to combat Bath council decision stopping Duchy of Cornwall from building 2,000 homes over green fields. He claims to be "the defender of nature", but Prince Charles was accused of hypocrisy after it emerged that he will challenge a decision preventing his Duchy of Cornwall property...

England | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation

Forest of Dean selloff angers locals
Guardian Unlimited | 04 Jan 2011
In pictures: More than 3,000 people at rally pledge to defend 'the people's' trees in the area between the rivers Severn and Wye from what they fear will be corporate land grab.

England | Land Tenure Issues | Local Environment Initiatives | Local Issues | Woodlands

Largest postwar prefab estate to be demolished
Guardian Unlimited | 02 Jan 2011
Campaigners say key piece of history will be lost after only six of 187 houses built by German and Italian PoWs listed. The UK's largest surviving estate of postwar prefab houses, described by conservationists as a unique slice of 20th-century social history, is set to be bulldozed and replaced by...

Elders to sue UK government for injustices
Daily Nation | 23 Nov 2010
The Taita Council of Elders is pondering filing a case in The Hague over historical injustices against the community. The council, also known as Waghosi wa Isanga, has called Taita lawyers for a brainstorming meeting on the matter. The councils treasurer Gabriel Nyambu said on Tuesday that they would discuss the possibility of suing the British government for taking away more than 17,000 square kilometres of their land to establish a national park.

Land Tenure Issues | Protected Areas | Public Policy | Tourism and Biodiversity

Selling England's woodlands will not be easy
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Nov 2010
The government and the Forestry Commission must answer some tough questions if they want to successfully privatise England's woodlands. The proposed privatisation of England's woods sounds easy enough. You put an ad in the papers, invite offers and wait for the money to come in, right? No. As both...

England | Carbon Storage | Economy | Health | Land Tenure Issues

Letters: Forest policy
Guardian Unlimited | 27 Oct 2010
The Forestry Commission (FC) owns a substantial amount of land which is of high value for wildlife - a tremendous national asset. Transfer of such land should not take place before a clear policy has been established (Forests sell-off plan is 'asset-stripping our natural heritage', 25 October)....

United Kingdom | Forests and Woodlands | Land Tenure Issues

Culling is necessary to sustain the herd
Guardian Unlimited | 25 Oct 2010
We must maintain the balance between deer numbers and the environment, says David Kenyon. Culling is essential for the health of the national herd. It maintains the balance between deer numbers and the environment they live in. If there are too many deer, they eat out the understorey of the woods,...

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Land Tenure Issues | Local Issues

Forests sell-off plan by government is 'asset-stripping our natural heritage'
Guardian Unlimited | 24 Oct 2010
'If this means vast swathes of valuable forest being sold to developers, it will be an unforgiveable act', says Caroline Lucas. Many of England's best-loved forests and woodlands may be sold to large landowners, housing developers and international power companies in what could be the UK's greatest...

United Kingdom | Forest Plantation and Afforestation | Forests and Woodlands | Land Tenure Issues

Population growth demographics spur climate change
Reuters | 11 Oct 2010
The world is probably going to be a more crowded place by 2100 and demographic changes in this growing population -- how many more people there are, how old they are and where they live -- will affect climate-warming emissions, researchers reported on Monday.

Globalisation | Environment | and Sustainable Development

Why landfill mining could be the next big thing
Guardian Unlimited | 11 Oct 2010
A new project that will reuse 16.5m tonnes of rubbish from a Belgian landfill site could help solve a host of environmental problems. It might sound like a load of old rubbish, but landfill mining could be the next resources idea to sweep Britain and the rest of Europe. UK company Advanced Plasma...

United Kingdom | Land Tenure Issues | Plastics | Renewable Energy | Waste Management

Friends of the Earth urges end to 'land grab' for biofuels
Guardian Unlimited | 29 Aug 2010
Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans into hunger and raising carbon emissions, according to Friends of the Earth...

England

Landfill waste to produce energy
BBC | 28 Jul 2006
Methane produced by two Fife landfills is to be used to generate enough electricity to power 4,500 homes.

Councils failing to meet local waste targets
Epolitix.com | 26 Jul 2006
Local authorities look set to miss targets on reducing the amount of biodegradable waste sent to landfill disposal sites, according to a report from parliament's spending watchdog.

Development of a Framework for Assessing the Suitability of Controlled Landfills
Foundation for Water Research | 21 Jul 2006
Sniffer commissioned this project on behalf of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Environment and Heritage Service, Northern Ireland (EHS), Scottish Executive and the Environment Agency for England and Wales

Biodiversity Conservation | Land Pollution | Land Tenure Issues | Water Management | Water Pollution

Lax landfill traders will be fined - Bradshaw
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 19 Jul 2006
Local authorities that fail to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill using the Government's new trading scheme will be fined, waste management minister Ben Bradshaw has said.

Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | Environmental Impacts

Hands sells UK landfill giant to Spanish for £1.4bn
The Independent | 18 Jul 2006
Guy Hands' private-equity group has made about £1bn profit from investing in the waste disposal market after selling the UK's biggest landfill site operator for £1.4bn yesterday.

Prices remain low in landfill allowance trading scheme
LetsRecycle.com | 29 Jun 2006
Prices for landfill allowances remain low in the second year of the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme in England. Council finance officers are being urged by their waste officers to provide funding early, to purchase landfill allowances before prices rise.

Contract awarded for £50m scheme
BBC | 29 Jun 2006
HIE is to help run a new grant scheme designed to aid island and inner city communities.

Land Tenure Issues | Local Environment Initiatives

Seed treaty is new hope for food security
SCIDEV.NET | 16 Jun 2006
The future of sustainable agriculture depends on countries agreeing on how to share genetic resources.

Agrochemicals | Farming Practices | Genetically Modified Organisms | Land Tenure Issues

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