Environment
Raging bulls: Endangered & dangerous
Published: 08 October 2006
Office workers who leave computers on all night 'add to global warming'
Published: 06 October 2006
Don't just switch off the television, switch off the computer too. Office workers who leave two million computers on every night are speeding up climate change, according to new research.
Blair hails progress on G8 climate change bid
Published: 06 October 2006
The whole world finally recognises the scale of the threat of climate change, Tony Blair said yesterday after the latest session of a round of negotiations between the biggest polluting countries, which he instigated last year at the G8 summit in Gleneagles in Scotland.
Intelligent, emotional, ingenious: the amazing truth about whales and dolphins
Published: 05 October 2006
Jumping through watery hoops? Forget it. They can solve problems and use tools. They exhibit joy and grief. They live in complex societies.
Government urged to save threatened 'British' albatrosses breeding on South Atlantic islands
Published: 05 October 2006
"The fishermen love the birds," says Meidad Goren, an ornithologist who has spent recent months travelling with vessels off South Africa in search of tuna and swordfish bound for the world's restaurant tables.
Crocodile farms: is it cruel to keep these wild creatures captive?
Published: 05 October 2006
Froogles: The new challenge to rampant consumerism
Published: 05 October 2006
The century of drought
Published: 04 October 2006
Global warming devastates sea ice in Arctic Circle
Published: 04 October 2006
Sea ice in the Arctic last month melted to its second lowest monthly minimum in the 29-year record of satellite measurements.
Lead and smoking blamed for rise in hyperactive children
Published: 01 October 2006
One-third of all children with attention deficit problems can blame their disability on their mothers smoking in pregnancy and on lead pollution, according to an official US study.
$1,000,000,000,000: the cost of capping greenhouse gas emissions
Published: 30 September 2006
The cost of curbing the soaring emissions of harmful gases blamed for causing global warming has been estimated at $1 trillion by a major new study.
Climate change may drive lemurs to extinction
Published: 30 September 2006
Climate change will condemn the already endangered lemurs of Madagascar to extinction, a study shows.
Appetite for fish spells disaster for sea life
Published: 29 September 2006
For millennia Europeans have harvested the oceans with little thought to the future, but over-fishing, illegal catches, wasteful methods and destructive techniques are turning once plentiful waters into barren seas.
Summer heatwaves may get much worse
Published: 29 September 2006
Climate change could send heatwave temperatures in the South-East of England soaring as high as 46C (114.8F) by the end of the century, the Met Office has warned.
Urban farming: City pickers
Published: 28 September 2006
How an extinct butterfly fluttered back to life
Published: 28 September 2006
The life cycle of the large blue butterfly is one of the more extraordinary in the animal kingdom. Its survival is dependent upon a combination of pure chance, the grazing habits of cattle and its ability to trick its way into the nests of an entirely different species, whose young it devours greedily. Unsurprisingly, the butterfly became extinct in Britain in 1979.
EU urged to limit tuna fishing as sushi demand threatens stocks
Published: 25 September 2006
Rising demand for sushi is helping to drive tuna stocks to the edge of collapse and could lead to the seasonal closure of fishing grounds.
The green house of the future
Published: 24 September 2006
Global warming must be top priority for UN, says Beckett
Published: 23 September 2006
Tackling climate change and averting the threat of rising sea levels, increased droughts and associated famines should become the greatest priority for the United Nations, the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, said yesterday.
Branson pledges $3bn to combat global warming
Published: 22 September 2006
There seem to be no bounds to Sir Richard Branson's generosity - or his ability to grab the limelight.
Mass tourism and climate change could lead to destruction of world's wonders
Published: 22 September 2006
Gloomy predictions of extreme heat and destruction of some of the world's leading holiday destinations were made yesterday in a report assessing the impact of the dangers of mass tourism and climate change.
Lowering emissions: California dreaming?
Published: 22 September 2006
Sea levels are rising faster than predicted, warns Antarctic Survey
Published: 20 September 2006
The global sea level rise caused by climate change, severely threatening many of the world's coastal and low-lying areas from Bangladesh to East Anglia, is proceeding faster than UN scientists predicted only five years ago, Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, said yesterday.
'New climate' detected as Britain grows ever hotter
Published: 19 September 2006
England has become a full degree Celsius warmer since the Beatles started playing - and human activity is the cause, according to research released yesterday.
Dozens of new species found in underwater wonderland
Published: 18 September 2006
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