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RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch confirms many species still declining
Starlings and house sparrow numbers dwindling as survey reveals long-term downward trend despite overall boost to populations due to a warm winter and bumper harvests
The number of backyard researchers in the world’s biggest citizen science survey was up this year, but participants found populations of many bird species continued to decline.
More than 585,000 people took part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch. The survey took place over a January weekend, as it has for the past 36 years.
Continue reading...Emissions Reduction Fund: Safeguard Mechanism Consultation Paper
Emissions Reduction Fund: Safeguard Mechanism Consultation Paper
Oceanreef Aquaculture
Oceanreef Aquaculture
West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery
Florida's unspeakable issue leaves climate change official tongue-tied
- Emergency chief says anything but phrase ‘banned’ by governor
- Fema to pull funding for states that refuse to address climate change
The latest victim of Florida governor Rick Scott’s unwritten ban on state officials using the words “climate change” is his own disaster preparedness lieutenant, who stumbled through verbal gymnastics to avoid using the scientific term in a newly surfaced video.
Continue reading...Review of the National Carbon Offset Standard
Review of the National Carbon Offset Standard
Review of the National Carbon Offset Standard
Australia's emissions projections 2014-15
Australia's emissions projections 2014-15
Syrian seedbank wins award for continuing work despite civil war
Syrian scientists who risked their lives preserving the region’s ancient farming heritage with nearly 150,000 seed samples are presented Gregor Mendel award in Berlin
The fields around Aleppo have sustained humanity for tens of thousands of years. Blood-torn now, they were among the first to produce wheat, barley and the crops that made this area part of the “fertile crescent” that Western civilisation sprang from.
There may be little sign of that left today, amid Syria’s bloody civil war, but the few remaining strands of the region’s farming heritage have been pulled together by a small group of scientists, whose achievement has just been recognised.
Continue reading...Amazon's trees removed nearly a third less carbon in last decade – study
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 more deeply to tackle climate change.
Trees in untouched areas of the forest have been dying off across the basin at an increasing rate, found the study, published in Nature on Wednesday. Meanwhile the tree growth produced by higher CO2 levels in recent decades levelled off.
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New threatened ecological community listings
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Continue reading...Pangolins: the world's most illegally traded mammal – in pictures
The endangered pangolin is being eaten out of existence before many people have even heard of it. Photographer Paul Hilton followed poachers in Indonesia to raise awareness of this gentle animal’s plight
Audio slideshow: See more of Paul Hilton’s work on the impact of deforestation on Indonesia’s wildlife
Continue reading...Don't feed the ducks bread, say conservationists
We feed six million loaves of bread a year to ducks in England and Wales causing damage to birds’ health and polluting waterways. Oats, corn and peas are safer for the birds
The seemingly innocent act of feeding ducks with bread is harming waterfowl and polluting waterways, conservationists warned on Monday as they urged people to use more benign alternatives.
A survey by the Canal and River Trust found nearly a quarter of English and Welsh people had together fed six million loaves of bread to ducks last year. Uneaten bread causes algal blooms, allows bacteria to breed and attracts rats and other vermin.
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