Environment
Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
Published: 16 January 2006
Why Gaia is wreaking revenge on our abuse of the environment
Published: 16 January 2006
With anyone else, you would not really take it seriously: the proposition that because of climate change, human society as we know it on this planet may already be condemned, whatever we do. It would seem not just radical, but outlandish, mere hyperbole. And we react against it instinctively: it seems simply too sombre to be countenanced.
Global warming to speed up as carbon levels show sharp rise
Published: 15 January 2006
Global warming is set to accelerate alarmingly because of a sharp jump in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
India turns to spy technology to save tigers
Published: 15 January 2006
Yes, that really is a vulture in the garden
Published: 15 January 2006
Frequent flyer Palin: I'll offer to resign
Published: 15 January 2006
Greenpeace video of 'terror attack' is condemned
Published: 14 January 2006
A video showing terrorists crashing a passenger plane into a nuclear power station - a vivid attack on the Government's alleged intention to build a new generation of nuclear power plants - has been condemned by the nuclear industry as "distasteful".
No wonder we're gloomy: it's the greyest January for years
Published: 13 January 2006
Much of Britain has suffered one of the gloomiest starts to the year for a decade, with persistently leaden skies and a succession of overcast days.
Shakespeare's red kite returns to London after an absence of 150 years
Published: 13 January 2006
Once it was as much a London bird as the ravens in the Tower of London. The streets of Shakespeare's capital were full of red kites. "The city of kites and crows," he calls it.
Global warming: Today's news of the world
Published: 12 January 2006
Food and the environment: Welcome to the wheatgerm empire
Published: 12 January 2006
'Polluters' Summit: 'Industry will solve problem of global warming'
Published: 12 January 2006
The US, China and four of the other largest-polluting countries yesterday opened a "counter-Kyoto" conference by declaring that voluntarily adopted technological advances could solve the problem of climate change. After the first day of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, the US Energy Secretary, Samuel Bodman, said that even without financial incentives, coal, gas and energy companies were capable of reducing harmful emissions.
Ireland's Wildlife: New farming methods put birds in serious decline
Published: 12 January 2006
The Republic of Ireland's Heritage Council has warned that many of the country's birds are under threat because of trends in agriculture. The corncrake, lapwing, barn owl, cuckoo and chough are all on the danger list, according to the official body that monitors the health of Ireland's wildlife.
Threat To Lions: 'King of the Beasts may not rule beyond this century'
Published: 12 January 2006
The lion, once ubiquitous across the plains of Africa, faces extinction unless urgent action is taken to halt its conflict with humans, conservationists have warned.
Disaster Planning: Norway builds a 'doomsday vault'
Published: 12 January 2006
Norway has revealed a plan to build a "doomsday vault" hewn out of an Arctic mountain to store two million crop seeds in the event of a global disaster.
Battle On High Seas: Japan's target is to kill 935 whales
Published: 12 January 2006
Greenpeace activists confronted the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean yet again yesterday as part of their continuing protest against Japan's annual whale hunt.
Extreme weather in Asia: The Big Freeze
Published: 11 January 2006
Toxic waste creates hermaphrodite Arctic polar bears
Published: 10 January 2006
Wildlife researchers have found new evidence that Arctic polar bears, already gravely threatened by the melting of their habitat because of global warming, are being poisoned by chemical compounds commonly used in Europe and North America to reduce the flammability of household furnishings like sofas, clothing and carpets.
Driven to extinction: cuts threaten Large Blue
Published: 09 January 2006
Whales: In deep trouble
Published: 09 January 2006
GM: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed
Published: 08 January 2006
Sexy beast: The last known Tasmanian tiger
Published: 08 January 2006
King Kong to the rescue
Published: 08 January 2006
Overpopulation 'is main threat to planet'
Published: 07 January 2006
Climate change and global pollution cannot be adequately tackled without addressing the neglected issue of the world's booming population, according to two leading scientists.
Booming population 'threat to climate change fight'
Published: 06 January 2006
Environmental problems such as global warming can be tackled only if the international community addresses the problem of population growth, a leading scientist warned today.
