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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Urban Ecosystems

Norman Foster: City of the future is camels, penguins and cars you don't drive
Daily Mail | 23 Jan 2011
Masdar City, located between Abu Dhabi Airport and Abu Dhabi in the UAE, is a template for a vision of a new kind of city.

Cities should step up climate change fight: World Bank
Reuters | 03 Dec 2010
Cities should play a much bigger role in fighting global warming and can act more easily than governments struggling to agree on a U.N. climate accord, the World Bank said on Friday.

River of money flows to Thames as it wins global conservation prize
Guardian Unlimited | 12 Oct 2010
London's mighty river was declared a dead zone 50 years ago - but now it is full of life and has been rewarded for its resurgence. In the 1950s it was declared biologically dead – a heavily polluted river that was a far cry from the days when it was admired by William Wordsworth, Claude Monet and the Three Men in a Boat of Jerome K Jerome's book.

Water effort needs campaign - study
Green Consumer Guide | 10 Oct 2006
A government-backed campaign to save water would have a major effect on UK consumers, according to the results of a new study.

Parliament softens EU clean-air law
EurActiv | 28 Sep 2006
The proposal to revise the directive on ambient air quality is part of a wider 'Thematic strategy on air pollution' put forward by the Commission in September 2005.

Recycling: Tenement plans welcomed
Friends of the Earth- Scotland | 28 Sep 2006
Friends of the Earth Scotland welcomed funding plans to increase the amounts of waste recycled by those living in tenements and high rise flats.

Urban Areas | Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment | Urban Planning | Urban Pollution

Greens home energy efficiency targets bill welcomed
Friends of the Earth- Scotland | 28 Sep 2006
Friends of the Earth Scotland and the Association for the Conservation of Energy welcomed the formal introduction, in the Scottish Parliament, of a Member's Bill aimed at improving energy efficiency levels in Scottish homes.

UK calls for action to save tuna
BBC | 27 Sep 2006
The UK is pressing the EU for action to stop overfishing of the bluefin tuna, which campaigners say is being fuelled by the demand for sushi.

Biodiversity Conservation | Fish Farming | Fisheries | Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment

Europeans urged to eat less fish
BBC | 27 Sep 2006
The conservation group WWF is calling on European consumers to think twice before they eat fish.

Conservation | Fisheries | Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment

Cryptosporidiosis: A report onthe surveillance and epidemiology of Cryptosporidium infection in Engl...
Foundation for Water Research | 22 Sep 2006
Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrhoeal disease that is commonest in young children, can infect people of all ages and is severe in people with an immune deficiency.

WWF-UK: Shell's Sakhalin II environmental oil permit cancelled
WWF-UK | 20 Sep 2006
The Russian government has cancelled an environmental permit for Shell's $20 billion oil and gas project in the far east of Russia. This has the potential to suspend the construction of the project until the permit is satisfied.

Corporate Social Responsibility | National Policies and Environmental Laws | Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment

MEPs push back new EU car-pollution limits
EurActiv | 19 Sep 2006
The Parliament's environment committee vote took place just days before the European Mobility Week which runs from 16-22 September. During Mobility Week, EU citizens are encouraged to leave their cars at home and use greener transport modes, such as walking, cycling, public transport or car-sharing.

Palm offensive
Guardian Unlimited | 18 Sep 2006
Ah, Los Angeles. City of palm trees and convertibles. Actually, scrub that. From now on, city leaders are urging, Los Angeles will be the city of oak trees and bicycles.

Electronic green league launched
Green Consumer Guide | 30 Aug 2006
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has launched a new league system designed to chart the eco-performance of the worlds leading electronics producers, however the opening statistics revealed the current poor performance in the industry.

Air quality experts seek views on nitrogen dioxide report
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 21 Aug 2006
A draft report investigating unexpected trends in roadside nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations and possible links with changes in vehicle technologies has been published today for comment by the Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG).

Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment | Urban Planning | Urban Pollution

No early solution to nuclear waste, interim steps needed quickly
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 03 Aug 2006
The Government need to urgently implement interim measures to ensure nuclear waste is stored safely while investigating longer term measures to deal with the problem, Friends of the Earth has warned.

Nuclear Power | Nuclear Waste | Urban Ecosystems | Urban Environment | Urban Planning

VARs blast government over final phase of WEEE
Yahoo! News | 31 Jul 2006
'Delightfully vague' recycling announcement leaves channel confused

Planet Ark : Toronto Buildings Going Green on Top, But Very Slowly
Planet Ark | 28 Jul 2006
A handful of buildings in Canada's biggest city are going green on top in an effort to help the environment and reduce global warming, but the city admits its plan for high-rise gardens has barely taken root.

Forest Action Plan
EurActiv | 28 Jul 2006
On 15 June 2006, the Commission adopted a five-year (2007-2013) action plan to enhance sustainable forestry management and improve the competitiveness of the European forestry industry.

Jurassic Coast feels heat of climate change
Yahoo! News | 28 Jul 2006
The quaint seaside town of Lyme Regis with its narrow, winding streets seems a million miles from the melting polar ice caps or the flooded coral atolls of the Pacific.

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