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25 July
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The salmon business: Can marine farming every be eco friendly?
Salmon is an easy fish to love. Simple and tasty, its pink flesh is pulled from supermarket shelves and transformed into an array of increasingly exotic dishes.
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The Independent |
James Daley: The "Summer of Cycling" initiative
Last Monday morning, London's new mayor Boris Johnson – or Bojo, as he is affectionately known – summoned the nation's press to the foot of the London Eye for the unveiling of a major new cycling initiative. I was, alas, washing my hair (or something equally important) at the time, but it turns out, as I suspected, I didn't miss much.
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The Independent |
Better than new: Give you home an eco facelift
Soon after I decided to leave mainstream politics – I was the deputy chair of the Liberal Democrat Party – and concentrate on becoming an eco-auditor and writer, I looked around my home and realised that, like many a politician's property, it had suffered from years of neglect and now badly needed repairing and redecorating. Knowing that more than 72 million tons of waste is produced each year by the UK construction industry and that huge resources and CO2 emissions are involved in producing new building materials, I resolved that the refurbishment should be as eco-friendly as possible. I would avoid new products and, where I had to buy new ones, would opt for those with good environmental credentials.
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The Independent |
Egrets? We've had a few
Britain has a new species of breeding bird, it was announced yesterday – the cattle egret, a white heron which has spread out from Africa across the globe.
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The Independent |
Invasion of the jellyfish: Mediterranean on alert as hundreds suffer from stings
As thousands of tourists head to the Mediterranean, the spectre of jellyfish ruining holidays looms large after French emergency services received more than 500 calls for help in a single day along a 10-mile stretch of coast from Nice to Cannes.
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The Independent |
Think tank reveals plan to manage tropical forests
Novel way to use carbon credits to save trees.
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Nature |
Green activist superglues himself to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
A climate-change protester tried unsuccessfully to superglue himself to the Prime Minister last night.
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The Times |
Solar power from Sahara will keep Europe's lights on - Times Online
European politicians are discussing ambitious plans to harvest the energy of the Saharan sun, connecting a vast network of solar panels to electricity grids across the continent. According to The Guardian, the project, estimated to cost up to £35.7 ...
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The Times |
Mongrel fish is a mixture of three species
An aquatic ménage à trois between native and introduced fish could damage biodiversity in the Colorado river (full text available to subscribers)
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New Scientist |
California Green Energy Proposal Has Thin Support
LOS ANGELES - Awareness is low, but 63 percent of those who had a view on it favor a California ballot measure that would require half the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2025, a Field poll issued Tuesday shows.
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Planet Ark |
Japan Feeds Animals Recycled Leftovers
SAKURA, Japan - With animal feed and fertilizer prices at record highs, Japan's food recycling industry is seeing greater demand than ever before for pellets for pigs and poultry made from recycled leftovers.
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Planet Ark |
World Bank Overstated Money for Environment - Report
WASHINGTON - The World Bank overstated its commitment to environmental projects since 1990, possibly by billions of dollars, an internal watchdog group reported on Tuesday.
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Planet Ark |
Hail, Worms and Floods Hurt Drought-Prone Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA - Army worms, hail and floods are adding to the woes of Ethiopians reeling from high world food prices and a drought that has affected some 4.6 million people, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Planet Ark |
About 20 Pct of EU Timber Illegal or Suspect - Report
BRUSSELS - Nearly a fifth of wood imported into the European Union has been harvested illegally or comes from suspect sources, mostly in Russia, Indonesia and China, according to a report by environmental group WWF.
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Planet Ark |
Last Three Gorges Dam migrants evacuate as water rises
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has finished evacuating the last town to be submerged by the giant Three Gorges Dam, making way for water levels in the reservoir to rise to their final height of 175 meters above sea level, state media said.
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Reuters |
Parasitic worms may help fuel AIDS epidemic: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People infected with parasitic worms may be much more susceptible to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Tuesday that may help explain why HIV has hit sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard.
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Reuters |
Drivers 'unaware of emission levels'
Nearly three in four drivers do not know how much carbon dioxide their car emits, it was revealed today.
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The Independent |
Ethics G...
My last post was about Channel 4's controversial climate change documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which Ofcom has rapped over the knuckles
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The Independent |
GM looks to an electric avenue
"The eyes of the world are now on the Volt. It's the future of America and the world." That was the US presidential candidate John McCain talking to car industry workers a few days ago, referring to General Motors' promised new electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt. The future of the world, no less. No pressure, then.
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The Independent |
Call to cut Games site emissions
MPs and experts demand London's Olympic organisers tackle harmful emissions from the construction site.
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BBC |
Press Centre
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DEFRA Lay Down the Way Forward for Contaminated Land
Defra have announced their plans for improving for contaminated land guidance.
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Environmental Protection UK |
Ministers urged to support renewable energy
The government must intervene to aid the renewable energy industry as gas prices looked set to rise for the foreseeable future.
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Energy Saving Trust |
Underwater windmill connected to grid
What has been described as an underwater windmill by its creators has been connected to the national grid for the first time.
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Energy Saving Trust |
Biofuels industry to get support in form of subsidies
Subsidies worth $25 billion (£12.5 billion) will be awarded to the biofuels industry in the US, Canada and the European Union by 2015.
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Energy Saving Trust |
Lanarkshire windfarm gets go ahead
A proposed windfarm for South Lanarkshire has been granted permission, it has emerged.
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Energy Saving Trust |
Biomass plant to be built in Fife
A £100 million biomass plant is to be built in Markinch, Fife, to power a local paper mill and feed into the national grid.
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Energy Saving Trust |
