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Global warming threatens Scottish puffin paradise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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One of Britain's largest puffin colonies is being wiped out by an invasive plant that is thriving in warmer temperatures brought about by climate change.
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Ministers urged to extend grants for solar panels as demand soars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Ministers who imposed a cap on the number of homes that qualify for grants for "green" energy sources such as solar panels and wind turbines following a sharp rise in consumer demand have come under pressure to scrap the monthly limit.
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Mystery of where bald ibis goes in winter is solved (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It's a weird-looking bird, a mysterious bird, and one of the rarest on earth. Now at least part of its mystery has been solved.
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Species under threat: Honey, who shrunk the bee population? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It has echoes of a murder mystery in polite society. There could hardly be a more sedate and unruffled world than beekeeping, but the beekeepers of the United States have suddenly encountered affliction, calamity and death on a massive scale. And they have not got a clue why it is happening.
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Fleeces get an eco-makeover (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Donning a fleece - anywhere other than up a mountain - normally just makes the one fashion statement. And it isn't particularly flattering. But that could all change with the advent of the world's first "green" fleece, a jacket made entirely from recycled plastic bottles.
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Julia Stephenson: The Green Goddess (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Some of you may remember this newspaper's charity auction before Christmas, in which readers could bid for the company and services of Indy writers. I was one of the lots - offering a green home audit to the highest bidder - and I was worried no one would bid for me.
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The Roadkill Chef: Hunting for dead tasty meals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It's a crisp January afternoon, and Fergus Drennan is picking mushrooms in a field near the Kentish seaside town of Whitstable. Out of the corner of his eye, he spots some black and white feathers poking up from a tuft of grass.
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Scientists from 63 countries to investigate polar melting (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Thousands of scientists from 63 countries are joining forces to make a detailed study of the Earth's polar regions, where climate change is having a dramatic impact on ice formations that have been stable for millennia.
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Africa sees the return of the elephant killers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The growing trade in ivory is fuelling an alarming rise in elephant poaching which could undermine attempts to save the world's biggest land animal from extinction, according to a study published today. Scientists believe that poaching of African elephants has returned to a scale not seen in decades and that the number of animals being killed could cause some regional populations to become extinct.
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Melting ice gives birth to a strange new world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Herds of sea cucumbers on the move, fields of sea squirts and forests of glass sponges. These were just some of the fantastic sights scientists captured on an underwater expedition to a remote region of Antarctica.
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Oldest bird reserve threatened by plan to expand airport (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Plans for a huge airport expansion on the south-eastern tip of Kent are threatening the oldest reserve under the management of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Businessman, Sheikh Fahad al-Athel, is proposing a huge expansion of the small airport near the village of Lydd.
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Cardboard tents: a triumph of green entrepreneurship (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The traditional tent cities at festivals such as Glastonbury and T in the Park may never be the same again. In a triumph of green entrepreneurship that is certain to appeal to environmentally-aware music-lovers, a design student is to receive financial backing from the City to produce eco-friendly tents made of cardboard that can be re-cycled after the bands and the crowds have gone home.
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Britain's first custom-built green estate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Britain's first entirely green housing estate, complete with wind turbines and rainwater harvesting facilities, is to be built in London's Docklands.
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Poland road plan threatens wildlife in peatland (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Bowing to pressure from environmentalists, the Prime Minister of Poland said yesterday he would hold a local referendum to decide whether to build a controversial road through one of the most beautiful areas of the country.
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One woman, fighting to save her people from extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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If Nobel Peace Prizes could refreeze the polar ice caps, then Sheila Watt-Cloutier would be a very happy woman indeed because her people are, "defending the right to be cold".
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Deep sea discovery: The monsters from the deep (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It is one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep ocean, and one of the most elusive. Only half a dozen colossal squid have been caught. The specimen hauled out of the inky waters of Antarctica is believed to be the biggest, weighing half a ton, with eyes as big as dinner plates.
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Greens attack delay in climate change law (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The Government's green credentials were called into question after it emerged that its Climate Change Bill would not become law in the current parliamentary session.
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Great Barrier Reef polluted by pesticides (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The Great Barrier Reef, already under threat from global warming, is also being affected by pollutants and pesticides from the land carried into the sea by flooded rivers, satellite images show.
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'Tree houses' invoke ire of Hebden Bridge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Environmentalists have always found a warm welcome in Hebden Bridge, the Hampstead of the Pennines, which has built a bohemian image since New Age residents began arriving in the 1970s. But environmental warfare has begun over plans for a cluster of ecofriendly homes which, for many locals, goes a shade of green too far.
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The best ethical products (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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'Everyone who plants something will harvest something" says Carlos, a 65-year-old citrus farmer in Cuba. "That's the beauty of Fairtrade."
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Julia Stephenson: The Green Goddess (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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This week I was prised from the anonymity of my eyrie into the eye of the storm - yes, the congestion charge has hit west London and, as the only person in the area who seems to support it, I've found myself unusually in demand.
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Reprieved hedgehogs may be no safer on the mainland (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It was a welcome piece of good news in an increasingly sad tale. The decision this week to halt the cull of hedgehogs on the Western Isles of Scotland and instead transport them alive from the wilds of the Uists back to the mainland was heralded by conservationists as a crucial step in the fight to save the creatures.
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Q. How many Australians does it take to change all the light bulbs? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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After almost a decade as a pariah in the battle against global warming because of its refusal to join the Kyoto Protocol, Australia scored an environmental first yesterday by becoming the only large economy to ban the traditional incandescent lightbulb.
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Cutting-edge eco-features: a climate for change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Double glazing is old hat and as for loft insulation - well, it's so last year. These days some UK house-builders are going well beyond those traditional tools of energy efficiency and are instead pioneering more sophisticated sustainable means of building our properties and powering our lifestyles.
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Energy Performance Certificates: a green bill of health (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The average household in the UK creates about six tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, chiefly from the fuels that we burn - coal, oil and gas - and through routine activities like cooking, washing and keeping our homes warm.
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Low-cost Homes: economical eco-options on the rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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With the Government insisting that all new homes in Britain must be carbon-neutral by 2016, the pressure is on developers to come up with good design that doesn't cost the earth - financially or environmentally.
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Macquarie's feral cats: a delicate ecological balance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Nestling in the icy waters of the sub-Antarctic is the World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island, home to more than a dozen species of threatened marine mammals and seabirds - and 100,000 rabbits.
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Campaign wins reprieve for Uist hedgehogs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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A five-year battle between conservationists and animal welfare campaigners over the fate of hedgehogs in the Western Isles of Scotland is expected to come to an end today.
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Bangladesh: At the mercy of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The Sundarbans nature reserve in Bangladesh's south-west is one of the last untouched places on Earth - and home to the largest population of tigers left in the wild. But the trees in the Sundarbans have suddenly started dying. And not just that: they have started dying in a way nobody has seen before, from the top down.
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Organic farming 'no better for the environment' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Organic food may be no better for the environment than conventional produce and in some cases is contributing more to global warming than intensive agriculture, according to a government report.
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Native languages hold the key to saving species (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Many animals and plants threatened with extinction could be saved if scientists spent more time talking with the native people whose knowledge of local species is dying out as fast as their languages are being lost.
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Nation's gin tree in need of a tonic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Juniper, the aromatic bush whose berries gave the world gin, is in trouble. It is dying out so relentlessly on British hillsides that a new study says if action is not taken it could disappear altogether. And the root of the problem is, well, sex.
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How to pick out a penguin (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It has long been a source of wonder to nature watchers. As huge throngs of seemingly identical penguins crowd the South Atlantic shoreline, birds returning from long fishing trips can unerringly pick out their relatives in the midst of what sounds like bedlam.
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The green Oscars: A Hollywood blockbuster starring DiCaprio and Cruz (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Things have truly changed in Hollywood since Kermit the Frog famously lamented that it was "not easy being green".
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Britain in bloom - when it's not meant to be (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Trengwainton, eight miles from Land's End, enjoys perhaps the most favourable gardening conditions in mainland Britain.
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From VP to MC - Gore reveals stars for shows to save world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Some of the biggest names in music including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lenny Kravitz and the Black Eyed Peas are to perform in a series of rock concerts across the world to highlight the threat of global warming.
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World leaders reach climate deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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World leaders have reached a new agreement on tackling climate change at a
meeting in the United States.
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Zoologists plan 'ark' to save frogs from extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Zoologists from around the world were gathering in Atlanta yesterday to plead for a global action plan to save hundreds of species of frogs believed to be on the brink of extinction, because of, in part, a strange and rapidly expanding fungus.
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Scientists sound alarm over melting Antarctic ice sheets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The long-term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of metres, has been called into question with the discovery of fast-moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.
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How farmers aim to save ancient animal breeds from extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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There are just a few thousand tigers left in the wild, and mountain gorillas are down to a few hundred. With figures like these, it's easy to overlook those less exotic animals closer to home that are facing extinction. But, while they might not grab the headlines, the plight of native British livestock breeds such as the bagot goat, the British lop pig, the boreray sheep and even the original Aberdeen angus beef cattle is no less critical.
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Could Australian recycling scheme solve our landfill problems? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The Lancashire town of Leyland is hardly a monument to cutting-edge technology. It is best remembered for the car plant that became a symbol to the industrial turmoil that plagued Britain in the 1970s. Perhaps that's why the locals were none too impressed to hear, a few months back, that their locality had been earmarked for a plant where all Lancashire's domestic waste would soon be processed. The county produces 775,000 tons of the stuff a year, so it certainly sounded as if Leyland was being dumped on from a great height in return for a few badly needed jobs.
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Julia Stephenson: The Green Goddess (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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I've been following this newspaper's war against packaging with interest. I thought I was the only fanatical anti-rubbish Nazi in the country, but no. Judging by the scores of e-mails on the subject, there are other desperate souls boiling their heads with rage at the amount of pointless waste thrust upon us.
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Prime Minister an unlikely architect of a 'Kyoto II' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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You could hardly call Tony Blair an all-round environmentalist; during his decade in office he has had precious little to say on green issues that exercise many people, such as wildlife conservation, marine pollution, or recycling. But on the biggest issue - climate change - he has said plenty.
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Blair bypasses Bush to build a consensus on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Tony Blair is to devote himself to fighting global warming when he quits power this summer by promoting an American rethink on the Kyoto protocol.
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A Valentine's Day for people who love the planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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A hand-tied bouquet or an exquisite box of chocolates are traditional signifiers of affection on St Valentine's Day. But choose your gift carefully and you can brighten the prospects of the planet as well as the eyes of your lover tomorrow.
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Cuts threaten work on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Britain's world lead in climate change research is being put at risk by proposed government spending cuts - just as Tony Blair sets out on a mission to secure a new international climate treaty.
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Frustrated Japan pushes for return to commercial whaling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Japan launches its most serious challenge yet to the two-decade ban on whale-hunting when it hosts a conference tomorrow aimed at "reforming" the International Whaling Commission.
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Poisoned: 400 of Britain's lakes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Nearly 400 of Britain's most wildlife-rich lakes are being stifled by pollution, an official study has found. They include most of the country's best-known and best-loved expanses of water.
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WI to renew campaign against packaging (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Women's Institute members plan to invade supermarkets again in protest at the excessive packaging of everyday products.
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Jet-setters pledge to ditch air travel to save the environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The Bishop of London has done it. So have lawyers, teachers, gardeners and at least one MEP. The latest trend in jetting around the globe is: not jetting around the globe.
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Snow falls - and much of Britain comes to a predictable standstill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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A flurry of snow slowed down southern Britain yesterday and brought much of it grinding to a halt.
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Sabina Ali: 'By the fourth or fifth train, I managed to squeeze on ' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Sabina Ali feared the worst when she drew her bedroom curtains in Islington, north London, yesterday morning.
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Saviour of the planet - or a space-hopping hypocrite? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The latest "green" offering by Sir Richard Branson has much to commend it. If scientists can devise a sustainable and cheap way of capturing and storing the CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere, it could amount to a huge breakthrough in tackling climate change.
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Inuit accuse US of destroying their way of life with global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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A delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington DC to provide first-hand testimony of how global warming is destroying their way of life and to accuse the Bush administration of undermining their human rights.
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Global warming 'Live Aid' planned (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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A day of concerts across the globe intended to exceed Live Aid in scale and ambition is to be held this summer to highlight the issue of climate change.
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Branson offers £10m to the person who can prevent the climate change crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Sir Richard Branson is raising his game as "saviour of the planet" by announcing a multimillion-pound prize for the best way of removing thousands of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Could avian flu spell end free range eggs? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Peter Barton is as uneasy as the rest of them. The organic poultry farmer has 50,000 hens scuttling around his fields in East Sussex. He, like many farmers, thought if anyone was going to be hit by bird flu, it would be someone like him. "We are obviously very concerned about what has happened, but it's not a total surprise," he says. "We've been expecting this for the last two or three years. However, I am very surprised how it turned up on an intensive farm rather than on one of ours. They are able to have much higher biosecurity. Our birds just run around and come into close contact with all things wild and natural. It flies in the face of logic. Something has gone wrong somewhere."
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Julia Stephenson: The Green Goddess (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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For the past couple of weeks, there can only have been one topic exercising the mighty brains of this paper's readership: how to have an eco-friendly Valentine's Day. Celebrating this event uses huge amounts of the Earth's resources - cards, pesticide-ridden Champagnes and flowers, exploitatively farmed chocolate and carbon-emission-busting travel.
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Waste firms 'exporting non-recyclable rubbish' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Private firms are routinely breaking the law on the export of British rubbish to the developing world, say the Government's environmental investigators.
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Climate campaign issues 'wake-up call' to world leaders (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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George Bush, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac are in bed, fast asleep. All around them the evidence of climate change is clear and pressing but nothing can rouse the world leaders from their slumber.
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Compost heap could help in the war on waste (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Shoppers are being encouraged to solve the problem of excess packaging by taking direct action and dumping trays and wrappers in their gardens.
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Carbon-free living: China's green leap forward (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Wang Enming pauses as he emerges from the subway in Dongtan to listen to the sound of flocks of birds settling on the wetlands near the metro station, undisturbed by man as they prepare for a winter migration. Cycling the remaining three minutes home to his apartment, he marvels again at the fresh breeze coming off the mighty Yangtze river, which is never cleaner than at this point at the world's first eco-city near Shanghai.
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The former banker advertising his green conversion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Peter Myers remembers his environmental epiphany very clearly. As a corporate financier working in the frenzied atmosphere of the City in the late 1990s he was responsible for a £100m portfolio of loans on behalf of his employer, a company in the NatWest group.
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British abroad: 'The amount of frivolous travel is a problem' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The founders of Lonely Planet have condemned "frivolous" British travellers who fly to European cities with no real sense of purpose.
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Stores 'should be responsible for disposal of packaging' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Shops should be forced to provide containers for customers to dump packaging in before they leave the store, one of Parliament's senior environmentalists says.
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Green: They are. Are you? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Acting cool will help save the planet, according to top stars, who are setting out to convince the world. They have launched a 10-year campaign to try to make environmentally friendly living fashionable, thus putting pressure on world leaders to act.
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Chirac leads calls for new UN body to save the environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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More than 40 countries are backing calls for an international organisation to police governments that fail to act against climate change. It would also fight threats such as global warming, water shortages and the loss of species.
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Doomed: the songstress of the deep (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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The waters off the Alaskan coastline are now becoming a graveyard for the beluga, the mystical rare white whale, whose repertoire of high-pitched squeaks, squeals and whistles have led to it being dubbed the songstress of the deep.
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UN delivers definitive warning on dangers of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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A terrifying leap in average global temperatures of 6.4C with higher
figures nearer the poles could occur over the next century, according to
the most authoritative report yet on global warming.
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North Sea gas and oil boom threatens dolphins (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Marine conservationists have called for permanent protection of one of the UK's most important colonies of dolphins which is being threatened by a boom in North Sea oil and gas exploration.
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Supermarkets discover shoppers hate excess packaging as waste campaign gathers force (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Supermarkets have detected considerable annoyance among their customers about excessive packaging, as The Independent's campaign against waste gathers support from politicians and stores.
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Carbon dioxide rate is at highest level for 650,000 years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at their highest levels for at least 650,000 years and this rise began with the birth of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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The temperature is rising - and humans are to blame (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:27
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It's a pretty grim conclusion: greenhouse gas reduction targets being talked about to stop climate change will not now avoid potentially catastrophic rises in global average temperatures, yesterday's report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), makes clear.
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Sex lives of grey seals boosted by warming climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:55
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It's an ill climate change that blows nobody any good, or so seals have been discovering. For global warming has been making them hot in more senses than one.
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Global warming: An inconvenient truth or hot air? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:55
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After two decades, the long scientific and political debate over whether human activities are warming up the Earth is finally over. Or is it? The world scientific community says so. Even the most recalcitrant governments, including the Bush administration, reluctantly agree. But the British media is characteristically unwilling to let an old row simply fade away.
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Sick people used like laboratory rats in GM trials (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:55
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Genetically modified potatoes developed by Monsanto, the multinational biotech company, have been fed to sick patients in an experiment. Rats that ate similar potatoes in the research suffered reductions in the weight of their hearts and prostate glands.
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