Environment
Night flights much worse for global warming
Published: 15 June 2006
Restrictions on night-time aircraft flights could help in the fight against global warming as well as making life easier for people living near airports.
Just how green are polytunnels?
Published: 15 June 2006
Japan buys votes to take control of whaling body
Published: 14 June 2006
Japan has succeeded in buying the votes that will give it control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) later this week, in a major step towards bringing back commercial hunting of whales.
Campaigners win funds to save great yellow bumblebee
Published: 14 June 2006
A three-year research project to save Britain's rarest species of bee begins in the Outer Hebrides this autumn. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) has been awarded a £28,000 grant from the Scottish Executive to look into protecting the last stronghold of the great yellow bumblebee in Britain.
The Big Question: Should householders be charged for the collection of their rubbish?
Published: 14 June 2006
How do we pay for our rubbish to be collected?
Today's forecast: rising levels of smog, asthma and hay fever
Published: 13 June 2006
Soaring temperatures have prompted a rash of medical alerts, amid fears that smog will choke British cities this summer.
Artificial flowers create a storm in the 'Venice of the Cotswolds'
Published: 13 June 2006
Few villages can rival the bucolic charm of Bourton-on-the-Water. Known as the Venice of the Cotswolds, the clear waters of the river Windrush flow peacefully beneath its ancient stone bridges conjuring a timeless appeal.
New species of hammerhead shark found in US waters
Published: 13 June 2006
A new species of hammerhead shark has been discovered in the north-western Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina.
Habitat of rare bumblebees under threat
Published: 12 June 2006
Britain's threatened bumblebees have some of their biggest strongholds on the derelict brownfield sites of the Thames estuary east of London - but these may vanish when the area is redeveloped, a new book says.
Saddle up: The Urban Cyclist's Survival Guide
Published: 12 June 2006
Robert Elms: My life in the saddle
Published: 12 June 2006
I've been riding bikes for well over 20 years (which is not the same as riding bikes well), but I don't recall ever becoming a cyclist. Despite getting on a battered hybrid most days to make the short but hairy inner-city journey from home to work, I don't recognise myself in most of the clichés of the earnest, yoghurt-hugging, two-wheeled eco-warrior. And now that I also pull on extremely hip Rapha gear and display the family jewels in lycra, while training to do stages of the Tour de France on my sleek Roberts racer, I'm even more aware that there is not one homogenous - and apparently to many, hateful beast - "the cyclist". The maiden aunt on her sit-up-and-beg is not the same as the boys doing wheelies on their BMXs, or the honed athletes whizzing past me as I wheeze through Regent's Park every morning.
Polar bear apocalypse
Published: 11 June 2006
Film reveals Norway's whale slaughter
Published: 11 June 2006
Water company applies for drought order
Published: 10 June 2006
Thames Water will apply to the Government for a drought order to limit water use in the capital, the company said today. If granted, the restrictions will affect around five million customers in London.
West's emissions 'fuelling destruction of Heritage Sites'
Published: 09 June 2006
The United Nations is facing pressure from scientists and campaigners to acknowledge the potentially devastating effect of climate change on the world's most precious ecological sites.
Italy is Europe's worst environmental offender, EU report says
Published: 09 June 2006
Italy has been singled out as the worst environmental offender in Europe in a report by the EU's Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas.
Global warming has forced animals to evolve already
Published: 09 June 2006
Some species of animals are changing genetically in order to adapt to rapid climate change within just a few generations, scientists believe.
Erosion may put golf course tees out of bounds
Published: 08 June 2006
For more than 400 years, golf has been played on the links of Montrose, making it one of the earliest established courses in the world. Generations of sportsmen have teed-off among the sand dunes that dominate the spit of sandy land a mile wide on which the east coast community is built.
The ethics audit 2006
Published: 08 June 2006
Desert life threatened by climate change and human exploitation
Published: 05 June 2006
The deserts of the world are threatened by a combination of human exploitation and climate change that could, within decades, wipe out many unique habitats and rare species, an authoritative study has found.
Why deserts will inherit the Earth
Published: 05 June 2006
Widening tropics 'will drive deserts into Europe'
Published: 04 June 2006
Pilots poisoned by contaminated air
Published: 04 June 2006
Airline pilots have been rendered incapable of flying their planes safely by polluted air pumped into their aircraft, a shocking report reveals.
Leave our apes alone
Published: 04 June 2006
Now you can save the planet even after you've died
Published: 04 June 2006
Using energy-saving light-bulbs and abandoning gas-guzzling cars are among the lifestyle changes adopted to combat climate change. Now the environmentally conscious are being asked to go one step further and help save the planet after death.
IoS poll: Should the international ban on commercial whaling be lifted?