Environment
Seven years to save planet, says PM
Published: 08 February 2006
Tony Blair has warned world leaders they have less than seven years to save the planet. But he ruled out a "ticket tax" on British airline passengers to combat global warming.
Rivers at risk from march of the 'Mandelson' crab
Published: 08 February 2006
The Chinese mitten crab's predatory habits once led John Prescott to compare it to his Labour Party colleague Peter Mandelson, another creature with fearsome claws and a tendency to approach its prey sideways on.
Estonian oil spill threatens 35,000 birds
Published: 07 February 2006
Up to 35,000 birds, including snow geese, gulls and swans, may die as a result of an oil spill in the frozen waters off Estonia's north-west coast.
Analysis: 'I had long given up on the thought of finding new species'
Published: 07 February 2006
By the time the clouds closed us off from the outside world, the helicopter had dropped three loads of people and gear on to the little boggy clearing in the mountain forest. We were met with silence, but for the sound of birds, frogs and cicadas. At this point we all were excited and nervously elated that we were all finally in this promised land - we had surmounted the many hurdles and had defied the odds and had made it into the Fojas.
Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species
Published: 07 February 2006
An astonishing mist-shrouded "lost world" has been uncovered high in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea.
Revealed: why the sparrows are dying out
Published: 06 February 2006
Me old cock sparrer, we may have cracked it. New evidence is pointing at a solution to the greatest wildlife mystery of recent years - why the house sparrow, Britain's most familiar bird, has been vanishing from London and other towns and cities.
Is it possible to ski without ruining the environment?
Published: 06 February 2006
Where does all our rubbish go?
Published: 06 February 2006
It's like a post-Apocalyptic mirage: towering white pyramids that close up reveal themselves as the sordid, humdrum detritus of all our lives: plastic bags, wine bottles, baked-bean tins, broken glass, paper.
When the crude runs out: Life after oil
Published: 05 February 2006
Burly, blue-eyed and with an outdoor blush to his face, Peter Kendall looks exactly like the successful Home Counties farmer he is. But he is producing oil, at the cutting edge of an energy revolution unexpectedly endorsed by President George Bush last week.
Stranded sperm whale dies in Humber estuary
Published: 05 February 2006
Rescuers yesterday failed in a dramatic attempt to save a rare sperm whale stranded at the mouth of the Humber estuary. The leviathan's death, on a sandbank three-quarters of a mile from the shore, is the second of a whale along the east coast in as many weeks.
Pregnancy test may have spawned deadly frog fungus
Published: 04 February 2006
A skin disease that is wiping out frogs around the world and is feared to have reached Britain may have been spread from Africa though an old-fashioned pregnancy test, scientists believe.
Scientists to walk out in wildlife centre row
Published: 03 February 2006
Environmental scientists have threatened to hold a virtually unheard-of mass demonstration over proposals to close Britain's three leading wildlife research centres.
Infectious facial tumours threaten to wipe out Tasmanian devils
Published: 02 February 2006
An infectious cancer is wiping out the Tasmanian devil, a marsupial carnivore whose aggressive bites could be passing facial tumours from one animal to another.
Poison death lures India's vultures to extinction
Published: 31 January 2006
Three species of vulture which are dying out faster than any other bird species could be extinct within five years because of the widespread use of a painkiller to treat cattle in India and Pakistan.
Fairy-tale ending as trapped dolphin finds mate
Published: 31 January 2006
The omens were bad for an increasingly distressed and malnourished bottlenosed dolphin which has been trapped in a Cumbrian tidal harbour for the past month. Conservationists attempting a rescue feared that they would have to put the creature down.
Climate poses increased threat, admits Blair
Published: 30 January 2006
Bush tried to gag environment expert
Published: 30 January 2006
One of Nasa's leading climate experts has accused the Bush administration of trying to censor him on global warming and the need for immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Why we need to build more ponds
Published: 30 January 2006
Greenland: Love in a very cold climate
Published: 30 January 2006
Whalemania (catch them while you can)
Published: 29 January 2006
Watch the birdy
Published: 29 January 2006
Cheap flights threaten UK targets for carbon emissions
Published: 28 January 2006
The boom in foreign travel generated by cheaper air fares and no frills airlines will wreck Britain's attempts to bring climate change under control, environmentalists fear.
RSPB warning as wind turbines kill sea eagles
Published: 28 January 2006
Sea eagles, among Europe's most magnificent birds, are being killed by the turbines of a Norwegian wind farm, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said.
Thames whale was trying to swim home - via Reading
Published: 26 January 2006
How about this for sad: she was trying to swim home, the Thames whale. Trying to swim home to the deep, deep waters of the north-east Atlantic. But she was trying to go via Maidenhead, Reading and Oxford.
