Environment
Climate change ‘disrupting local plant diversity’
Researchers have discovered that the numbers of plant species recorded by botanists have risen in locations where the climate has changed most rapidly, especially in relatively cold parts of the world.
Govt allows fracking to resume on same day research says it’s major source of greenhouse gas emissions & Thunberg sails across ocean
The Government is pushing ahead with Fracking regardless of the potential environmental costs.
Microplastics from bottles and food packaging discovered in snow on sheets of ice… floating in Arctic
Scientists dropped onto the floes by helicopters and dinghies - and collected samples. It shows air pollution is more widespread than previously feared, they say.
Europe can produce enough energy from onshore wind farms to power the whole world for the next 30 years
British and Danish researchers found the continent could produce more than 100 times the energy it currently does from the farms.
Golden eagle pictured with ‘trap’ attached to leg
Police have launched an investigation after a tourist raised concerns about the protected bird of prey near Balmoral on Thursday.
Same amount of carbon dioxide pumped out by 200 million cars ’emitted from African region blighted by drought’
Scientists say that soil across a huge part of the continent, including western Ethiopia, is producing the gas because of drought and changing land use.
Burger ban at University to tackle climate emergency
Beef products are to be removed from sale at Goldsmiths University as part of a plan to become carbon neutral by 2025.
Drone picture shows epic sunset with dramatic rays bursting through a wall of cloud
The image was taken from Mersey Island in Essex by professional videographer Dan Abbott
Sharks and marine predators need to live 1,250km from humans in order to thrive
Scientists from ZSL found that sharks that lived near human populations of 10,000 or more in the central Indian Ocean were fewer and smaller purely due to humans.