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Germany extends support work for poorer nations on carbon markets, orders EU ETS liquidity study
Government faces growing pressure over Heathrow third runway
Government faces criticism from its own advisors over failure to mention emissions targets as campaigners enter second week of hunger strike
The government is coming under growing pressure from environmentalists and its own advisers over its support for a new runway at Heathrow.
The Committee on Climate Change [CCC] has expressed its “surprise” that there was no mention of the government’s legal obligations to reduce greenhouse gases when it announced it was backing Heathrow expansion plans earlier this month.
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Continue reading...Can Scotland save its wildcats from extinction?
The secretive mammals are fast disappearing from the Highlands but last-ditch efforts to save them are fraught with challenges
Set deep in mixed woodland of Scots pine and birch, near the banks of the river Beauly in Inverness-shire, several huge, concealed pens contain two breeding pairs of Scottish wildcat.
Wildcats mate from January to March, and their high, anguished breeding calls through the dark winter nights are thought to have inspired tales of the Cat Sith, a spectral feline of Celtic legend that was believed to haunt the Highlands.
Continue reading...UPDATE – Ontario to abstain from August WCI auction as new Premier Ford announces end of carbon market
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RGGI auction clears above secondary market as compliance entities shy away
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
A colourful sand lizard, a giant baobab tree and a racoon with a head for heights are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Continue reading...Work starts to upgrade Large Hadron Collider
Stephen Hawking's memorial service under way at Westminster Abbey
Australia deepens details on NEG but refuses to budge on key issues
Dutch court jails EU carbon trading tax fraud ringleader for 8 years
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The magical wilderness farm: raising cows among the weeds at Knepp
You can’t make money from letting cows run wild, right? When Patrick Barkham got access to the sums at a pioneering Sussex farm, he was in for a surprise.
Orange tip butterflies jink over grassland and a buzzard mews high on a thermal. Blackthorns burst with bridal white blossom and sallow leaves of peppermint green unfurl. The exhilaration in this corner of West Sussex is not, however, simply the thrilling explosion of spring. The land is bursting with an unusual abundance of life; rampant weeds and wild flowers, insects, birdsong, ancient trees and enormous hedgerows, billowing into fields of hawthorn. And some of the conventional words from three millennia of farming – ‘hedgerow’, ‘field’ and ‘weed’ – no longer seem to apply in a landscape which is utterly alien to anyone raised in an intensively farmed environment.
This is Knepp, a 3,500-acre farm in densely-populated lowland Britain, barely 45 miles from London. Once a conventional dairy and arable operation, at the turn of this century, Knepp’s owners, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree, auctioned off their farm machinery, rewilded their land and, as much by accident as design, inched towards a new model of farming. Some view the result as an immoral eyesore, an abnegation of our responsibility to keep land productive and tidy. Others find it inspiring proof that people and other nature can coexist.
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