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The biggest environmental battles facing the Trump administration
Some flashpoints for environmental activists relating to climate change that are likely to erupt in the first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency
Donald Trump is likely to face unprecedented opposition from environmental groups during his presidency as activists prepare to battle the new administration on a number of fronts across the US.
While environmentalists clashed with Barack Obama over the Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines, these fights could pale in comparison to the array of grievances Trump will face over water security, fracking and climate change.
Continue reading...Seal found in Blakeney garden 2km away from the sea
Yellowstone fish deaths point to huge toll of human activity on rivers
A recent outbreak of a fish parasite on Yellowstone may have seemed unremarkable, but new research shows it could be linked to years of human activities that are slowly chocking river systems to death, reports Environment 360
The Yellowstone river has its headwaters in the mountain streams and snowy peaks of the famous US national park with the same name, and makes an unfettered downhill run all the way to the Missouri river, nearly 700 miles away. It is the longest undammed river in the Lower 48 states.
Last August, the Yellowstone made national headlines when a parasite killed thousands of fish, mostly whitefish. Fear of spreading the parasite to other waterways forced Montana officials to close the river to fishermen, rafters, and boaters. At the height of summer, the stunningly scenic, trout-rich river was eerily deserted. Fishing re-opened in the fall, but the parasite has been found in other Montana waterways.
Continue reading...Cuadrilla starts work on Lancashire fracking site
Energy firm says it is building access road at site in Fylde after receiving government green light last year
Energy company Cuadrilla has started work on a controversial shale gas site in Lancashire that will later this year become the first well to be fracked in the UK since 2011.
The site at Preston New Road in the Fylde is one of two that Lancashire county council rejected but whose decision was overturned last year by the communities secretary, Sajid Javid.
Continue reading...The nuclear brink
Green Investment Bank sale is 'deeply troubling', say Scottish ministers
Climate minister Nick Hurd told bank’s portfolio will be broken up and asset-stripped by Australia’s Macquarie
The prospect of the UK Green Investment Bank being stripped of its assets in a sale to Australian investment bank Macquarie is “deeply troubling”, Scottish ministers have told Westminster.
The sale of the Edinburgh-based bank, which supports offshore windfarms and other green projects, is expected to be agreed in January. But the Labour party, Liberal Democrats, Greens and former Conservative ministers have all raised concerns in recent weeks that privatisation may see the bank lose its environmental purpose.
Continue reading...Exploring nature
Bluefin tuna auctioned for £517,000 at Tokyo market – video
A 212kg bluefin tuna sells for 74.2m yen (£517,000) at the first auction of the year at Tsukiji market in Tokyo, amid warnings that decades of overfishing by Japan and other countries is taking the species to the brink of extinction
Continue reading...UK military to build prototype 'laser weapon'
Dance of wings over the white crests
Roker beach, Sunderland Storms tore wracks from the seabed and raucous black-headed and herring gulls rode the waves
Storms had torn wracks and kelps from the seabed and driven them against Roker pier, forcing the heap higher up the beach with each successive tide. This afternoon it was seething with seabirds.
There were sanderlings, conspicuous in their pale grey and white plumage, and turnstones, whose feathers so closely matched the hues of the brown fronds that they would have been all but invisible if they had not been constantly on the move. Close by, on the seaward side, raucous black-headed and herring gulls gathered, riding the waves.
Continue reading...Family out on day trip saves whale caught in fishing net – video
A family enjoying a new year’s trip has freed a humpback whale it found entangled in fishing nets off the coast of Antofagasta, Chile. Juan Menares said two of his children dived in to free the distressed 10-metre animal on Monday. Menares said: ‘That feeling after doing something good ... fills me with joy, fills me with pride and to be able to do something that I really had never done before.’
Continue reading...Meet the latest organisation to join the Carbon Neutral Program
Meet the latest organisation to join the Carbon Neutral Program
Meet the latest organisation to join the Carbon Neutral Program
Climate change: Fresh doubt over global warming 'pause'
Port Augusta residents concerned about ash blanketing city
World's oldest known orca presumed dead in blow to endangered whales
Known as Granny and believed to be 105, the matriarch of a small population of struggling Puget Sound orcas was first identified by researchers in the 1970s
The world’s oldest known orca – a century-old matriarch of a small population of endangered Puget Sound orcas – has been missing for months and is presumed dead by researchers in what is being described as a tremendous blow to an already struggling population.
Known as Granny and believed to be 105 years old, the orca has not been seen by researchers since mid-October, according to the Centre for Whale Research in North America’s Pacific Northwest.
Continue reading...New study confirms NOAA finding of faster global warming | John Abraham
Thomas Karl and colleagues were harassed by Republicans for publishing inconvenient science. A new study proves them right.
A new study has shown that a 2015 NOAA paper finding that the Earth is warming more rapidly than previously thought was correct.
Mystery cosmic radio bursts pinpointed
Migrant farm workers may stay after Brexit but red tape goes
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