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1111.Great Barrier Reef: Nationals MP says environmentalists are guilty of treason (2015-03-25)
... Conservation groups are ‘eco-traitors’ for lobbying the Unesco world heritage committee on reef, says Abbot government backbencher George Christensen Protesters in Sydney on global divestment day on 13 February. Coalition MP George Christiansen has said conservationists lobbying over the Great Barrier Reef want to shut the coal industry down completely. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images ...
1112.World’s top zoo organisation accused of links to Taiji dolphin slaughter in Japan (2015-03-24)
... Conservationists take World Association of Zoos and Aquariums to court for allegedly sanctioning a deal with fishermen in which dolphins were selected for capture Link to video: dolphins slaughtered in Taiji, Japan. WARNING: viewers may find scenes distressing. Oliver Milman and Justin McCurry ...
1113.Why National Trust is focusing on restoring UK’s green lungs (2015-03-24)
... I was on the Clent Hills in Worcestershire on Friday morning, there to meet the local MP and secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Sajid Javid. This area of National Trust-owned woodland and common is a historic “green lung” for the people of the Birmingham. When I arrived at 9 am, it was... ...
1114.Global water use may outstrip supply by mid-century (2015-03-24)
... Population growth could cause global demand for water to outpace supply by mid-century if current levels of consumption continue. But it wouldn’t be the first time this has happened, a Duke University study finds. Using a delayed-feedback mathematical model that analyzes historic data to help project future trends, the researchers identified a regularly recurring pattern... ...
1115.Ascension of marine diatoms linked to vast increase in continental weathering (2015-03-24)
... A team of researchers, including Rensselaer professor Morgan Schaller, has used mathematical modeling to show that continental erosion over the last 40 million years has contributed to the success of diatoms, a group of tiny marine algae that plays a key role in the global carbon cycle. The research was published today in the Proceedings... ...
1116.Ocean circulation changing: Ten years of ocean monitoring uncovers secrets of changing UK winters (2015-03-24)
... A groundbreaking project to observe and analyse regular data about ocean circulation and how it impacts on Britain’s climate has reached a ten-year milestone, giving valuable new insights into how ocean currents can affect global warming. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major system of currents in the North Atlantic, and monitoring changes... ...
1117.Amazon’s trees removed nearly a third less carbon in last decade – study (2015-03-19)
... Fall in amount of carbon absored by rainforest means even greater cuts to manmade emissions are needed to combat climate change, warn scientists. The amount of carbon the Amazon’s remaining trees removed from the atmosphere fell by almost a third last decade, leading scientists to warn that manmade carbon emissions would need to be cut... ...
1118.Ineos launches consultation to gain support for fracking in Scotland (2015-03-18)
... The operator of Scotland’s largest petrochemical plant at Grangemouth will run an information programme promoting shale gas. The operator of Scotland’s largest petrochemical plant at Grangemouth has started a community consultation process in a bid to gain support for fracking. ...
1119.UK’s first hedgehog conservation area planned (2015-03-18)
... A project to create the UK’s first dedicated hedgehog conservation area is being launched, as part of efforts to reverse declines in populations of the prickly creature. ...
1120.The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming overwhelming (2015-03-17)
... As progressive institutions, the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust should commit to taking their money out of the companies that are driving global warming, says the Guardian’s editor-in-chief as he launches our climate campaign The world has much more coal, oil and gas in the ground than it can safely burn. That much is physics. ...
