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Bee swarm clinging to car boot has Welsh town abuzz
Park ranger and beekeepers help remove thousands of bees after queen was thought trapped in back of a car in Haverfordwest
Thousands of bees left a town buzzing after swarming on to the boot of a car.
The insects are believed to have swarmed on to the back of a silver Mitsubishi Outlander after their queen got stuck in its boot.
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Body Shop 'bio-bridges' to regenerate forests and connect wildlife habitats
Programme in partnership with World Land Trust will create corridors of natural habitat to prevent threatened species from being cut off from each other
A programme to regenerate thousands of acres of forest and link habitats in wildlife-rich parts of the world has been launched.
The “bio-bridges” scheme, which creates corridors of natural habitat to prevent threatened wildlife populations being cut off from each other, is being run by the Body Shop in partnership with the World Land Trust.
Continue reading...North Yorkshire council fracking decision a 'declaration of war'
Industry welcomes decision in Kirby Misperton but campaigners vow to fight council’s approval
Anti-fracking campaigners have accused North Yorkshire council of declaring war on people’s rights to clean air and water after it approved the first operation to frack for shale gas in five years.
Campaigners opposed to the development outside Kirby Misperton – a village in Ryedale near the North York Moors national park – launched a “people’s declaration” in an attempt to stop the process going ahead. There have also been calls for a judicial review from Friends of the Earth and Frack Free Ryedale, which led the campaign against the application by Third Energy.
Continue reading...Unreliable car emissions tests harming fight against air pollution, expert says
On the road and lab test discrepancies undermining efforts to curb toxic air levels as UN environment assembly admits global response is not up to scratch
The growing gulf between laboratory tests and real world air pollution from cars is hampering efforts to cut the toxic air that kills millions of people a year worldwide, a leading expert has warned.
The UN admitted on Tuesday that the global response to air pollution is not up to scratch, after it was revealed last week by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that harmful airborne particulates had risen by 8% in cities around the world.
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No deadline set for final decision on Hinkley nuclear plant
Energy minister tells MPs that no time limit has been set for EDF to make a final investment decision on the much-delayed nuclear plant
The UK has set no deadline for the final go-ahead to the much-delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, energy minister Andrea Leadsom told a committee of MPs on Tuesday.
The head of the company aiming to build the new reactors, French state-owned EDF, told the same hearing he could not give a date for the decision nor confirm that it would start generating electricity in 2025, as previously pledged.
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UN calls for overhaul of national laws to tackle wildlife crime
Countries urged to outlaw possession of wildlife and timber illegally harvested or traded elsewhere
Governments around the world need to pass national laws outlawing the possession of wildlife and timber that has been illegally harvested or traded elsewhere, a new report by the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) urges.
At present, unlisted but endangered flora and fauna can be legally sold in other nations, even if it was illicitly taken from the countries of origin, due to a lack of coverage in the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).
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South African court gives green light to domestic trade in rhino horn
Court dismisses government bid to uphold seven-year ban on domestic trade in rhino horn - but global ban remains in place
South Africa’s supreme court has dismissed a government bid to uphold a seven-year ban on the domestic trade in rhino horn, an industry group said this week.
The decision has no bearing on a ban on international trade in rhino horn. Potential domestic buyers could include those who see rhino horn as a store of wealth that could appreciate in value and those who want it as a decoration.
Continue reading...UK renewables cuts 'risk slowing shift to clean energy'
Push for nuclear and gas over renewables could be more costly in the long term, warns UN’s environment chief
The UK government risks slowing the shift to clean energy sources by cutting support for renewable energy and strongly backing gas as a transitional fuel, according to the UN’s environment chief.
Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told the Guardian that he thought the UK’s push for nuclear and gas over renewables could be more costly in the long term.
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Why British environmentalists should vote for Brexit | Michael Liebreich
From phasing out coal to creating nature reserves, it is the EU which should be taking lectures from the UK, not the other way round
The leading lights of the UK environmental movement would have us believe that a win by the Brexit camp on 23 June would be akin to a natural disaster.
According to them, it is only our membership of the EU that renders our beaches swimmable, our water drinkable and our air almost breathable. Freed from the noble, ceaseless efforts of the ever-vigilant EU, troglodyte Britain would tear up decades of environmental legislation and return to our 1970s roots as the “dirty man” of Europe. This is complete and utter tosh.
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