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Toxic troubles for climate 'fix'
Spreading iron in the oceans as a climate "fix" could poison marine mammals and birds, scientists show.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2010 | 3:04 am
Home improvement 'hitting swifts'
A survey of swifts suggests the species is at risk from improvement work being undertaken on old houses.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2010 | 1:53 am
Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin: study
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Adding iron to the world's oceans to capture carbon and fight global warming could do more harm than good, as the mineral appears to boost the growth of a plankton that produces a deadly neurotoxin, a study published Monday shows.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 15 Mar 2010 | 9:48 pm
UK responds to EU noise directive
The government has responded to the EU Noise Directive by publishing a long-delayed noise policy statement.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 6:08 pm
Mars moon Phobos seen in detail
The European Mars Express probe releases new pictures from its close flybys of the Martian moon Phobos.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
PM leads funeral tributes to Foot
Gordon Brown led mourners in fond tribute to Michael Foot at the funeral of the former Labour leader, who died aged 96.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 15 Mar 2010 | 3:49 pm
Tiger decline 'sign of failure'
Governments need to crack down on the illegal trade in tiger parts if the big cats are to be saved from extinction, the UN warns.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 1:47 pm
Reindeer body clock switched off
Reindeer have "switched off" their internal body clocks to survive dark winters and light summers in the Arctic.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 11:20 am
UK minister talks climate in China
The UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband is in China to hold discussions with the country's political leaders.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 10:59 am
Australia '0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years'
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 15 Mar 2010 | 10:20 am
Bee swarms follow 'pied pipers'
A tiny group of bees act like "pied pipers" to trigger the onset of "explosive" swarms leaving the hive, report scientists.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 10:17 am
Carbon capture plans under way
The first stage of a planning process to build a coal plant with carbon capture technology in Ayrshire is to get under way.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 9:55 am
Late-blooming daffodils spark web appeal
Tourism bosses in Cumbria urge people to get in touch if they see a blooming daffodil, after the cold weather delays growth.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2010 | 9:47 am
Rio's zoo a maternity ward for endangered species
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Rio's zoo has been abuzz with activity in recent months, welcoming new arrivals to its collection of animals as it battles to try to save many of the nation's endangered species.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 14 Mar 2010 | 7:05 am
Apollo men decry Obama Moon plans
Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic".
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:34 am
Coffee car
The waste fuel for your motor that won't cost a lot
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:20 pm
India's smoggy capital tries a whiff of fresh air
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India has switched on its first public air purifier in the heart of capital New Delhi as part of an experiment that backers say could help other smog-choked cities in emerging countries.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:08 pm
What happened next? Zebra puts head in hippo's mouth
A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared doomed when visitors saw its head in the mouth of a hippo, but it was only cleaning its teeth.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:28 pm
Beauty and power
What Saturn's rings tell us about the entire Solar System
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:20 pm
Powering up
Japan's home fuel-cell tech to take on Europe
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 11:46 am
Climate linked to smaller birds
Songbirds on the US east coast are becoming smaller, a trend thought to be driven by climate changes.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:05 am
Siberian tigers die at China zoo
Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at a zoo in north-eastern China, raising fears over treatment of captive animals in the country.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:03 am
Central American shrimp, lobster fast disappearing
PANAMA CITY (AFP) - Illegal fishing and climate change are decimating shrimp and lobster populations in Central America, threatening a two-billion-dollar industry and 136,000 jobs, regional experts said Thursday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:47 am
Decapitated group 'were Vikings'
Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
Thalidomide effect mystery solved
The mechanism by which thalidomide causes birth defects including malformed limbs is revealed by scientists.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 Mar 2010 | 7:45 pm
Scan 'can distinguish memories'
Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:07 pm
Experts warn of monster mudslides in Taiwan
TAIPEI (AFP) - Southern Taiwan could experience even bigger mudslides than those that buried hundreds alive last year, when the worst typhoon in half a century hit the island, experts warned Thursday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:02 pm
Arctic seed vault hits half-million mark
OSLO (AFP) - Barely two years after it opened, a unique Arctic "doomsday" stockpile of all the world's crop seeds has reached the half-million species mark, the foundation that oversees it said Thursday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:20 pm
In pictures
Learning from bears' love of telegraph poles
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm
£30bn high-speed rail network green light
A new £30 billion high-speed rail network, with 250mph trains, from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds has been announced.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:29 pm
Dutch capital to be put on trial over ICoast waste dump
THE HAGUE (AFP) - The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:12 pm
Half-cock chicken mystery solved
Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:08 pm
Japan protest over tuna ban plan
Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:46 am
Scientists to review climate body
The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:06 pm
EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban
EU nations decide to support a Atlantic bluefin tuna ban.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 Mar 2010 | 8:57 pm
Huge meat-eater plant eats poo
The largest meat-eating plant in the world eats animal poo study finds.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 Mar 2010 | 9:29 am
Ring may be giant 'impact crater'
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:26 am
Galapagos tension
Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 Mar 2010 | 12:31 am
Hailing the arrival of alien predators
Europe is set to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am
Changes to Met Office forecasts
Following public research we are making changes to our range of forecasts.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 5 Mar 2010 | 10:50 am
Climate change and human influence
A Met Office review of the latest climate science has shown there’s compelling evidence about how our climate is changing and what's causing it.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 5 Mar 2010 | 10:50 am
Aboriginal whaling rights slipping
Commercial and political interests are abusing historical whaling rights of indigenous people.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm
Coldest UK winter for over 30 years
Provisional figures from the Met Office show that the UK winter has been the coldest since 1978/79.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 1 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm
A stormy end to February
Following the recent heavy snow over Scotland, February looks set to end on a stormy note across England and Wales.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 26 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm
New global temperature analyses
We have proposed a programme to deliver a new global temperature data set.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 24 Feb 2010 | 2:30 pm
Heavy snow for Scotland
Our forecasters are predicting persistent spells of heavy snow during Wednesday and Thursday, with the risk of local travel disruption.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 24 Feb 2010 | 2:30 pm
Cold weather to continue with some snow
The cold February weather is expected to continue with the ongoing risk of snow for parts of the UK, which could lead to some disruption to travel.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 19 Feb 2010 | 3:50 pm
More snow as cold weather continues
The cold February weather is predicted to continue with an increasing risk of snow for parts of the UK.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 17 Feb 2010 | 3:20 pm
Forecasts on the move with iPhone
Weather forecasts from the Met Office are now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 1 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
easyJet set for ClearFlight
easyJet has signed a multi-year contract with the Met Office to use our ClearFlight service.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 1 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
Earth Watch
Ugly rumours put rhinos and tigers on extinction road
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 20 Jan 2010 | 10:36 am
Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 9 Dec 2009 | 4:04 pm
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