Environment news

• March for Science: Rallies worldwide to protest against political interference

  22-04-2017 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of scientists demonstrate in cities around the world against an "assault on facts".
  
  Read more

• Canadian oil firm pulls out of national park in Peru's Amazon

  22-04-2017 23:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Pacific abandons one million hectare concession including indigenous peoples’ territories along Brazil borderA Canadian-headquartered company, Pacific Exploration and Production, has pulled out of a huge oil and gas concession overlapping a new national park in the Peruvian Amazon. The concession, Lot 135, includes approximately 40% of the Sierra del Divisor national park established in 2015. The concession has provoked opposition in Peru and just across the border in Brazil for many years
  
  Read more

• March for Science puts Earth Day focus on global opposition to Trump

  22-04-2017 19:23 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 600 marches held around the world, with organizers saying science ‘under attack’ from a White House that dismisses the threat of climate changeWhy March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only elites benefitHundreds of thousands of climate researchers, oceanographers, bird watchers and other supporters of science rallied in marches around the world on Saturday, in an attempt to bolster scientists’ increasingly precarious status with politicians.Related: Bill Ny
  
  Read more

• Ten of the best March for Science signs – in pictures

  22-04-2017 19:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of climate researchers, oceanographers, bird watchers and other supporters of science rallied in marches around the world on Saturday, in an attempt to bolster scientists’ increasingly precarious status with politicians.Hundreds of thousands join March for Science rallies across the worldContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Thousands rally around the world for ‘March for Science’ – video

  22-04-2017 18:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of people gathered in demonstrations across the globe for the ‘March for Science’ on Saturday, in a rebuke of Donald Trump’s dismissal of climate science and his attempts to cut large areas of scientific research. People congregated in cities such as London, Sydney and Berlin, with more than 600 marches planned across the US, Europe, South America and AustraliaGlobal ‘March for Science’ protests call for action on climate change
  Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Government has failed to act on air pollution, says Labour

  22-04-2017 16:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour says it would introduce legislation to tackle the "public health emergency" if in power.
  
  Read more

• Christian Earth Day lessons: worship by protectiong creation | Paul Douglas

  22-04-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate change is a global pro-life issue Readers of this column know that I tend to focus on breaking science in the climate and energy areas. Sometimes, I stray into politics and other times, I venture further afield. Today, on Earth Day, I was reflecting on best ways to move real action forward and it is clear to me, and almost everyone in this industry, that building bridges between like-minded groups is key.Frankly, it isn’t just scientists that are concerned about climate change. Ou
  
  Read more

• Christian Earth Day lessons: worship by protecting creation | Paul Douglas

  22-04-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate change is a global pro-life issue Readers of this column know that I tend to focus on breaking science in the climate and energy areas. Sometimes, I stray into politics and other times, I venture further afield. Today, on Earth Day, I was reflecting on best ways to move real action forward and it is clear to me, and almost everyone in this industry, that building bridges between like-minded groups is key.Frankly, it isn’t just scientists that are concerned about climate change. Ou
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The village that made itself hedgehog friendly

  22-04-2017 11:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hedgehogs, nursed back to health in an animal sanctuary, are released in the village of Burton Fleming, East Yorkshire.
  
  Read more

• Cassini probe heads towards Saturn 'grand finale'

  22-04-2017 10:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Cassini satellite puts itself on a trajectory that will take it to destruction in September.
  
  Read more

• The ice stupas of Ladakh: solving water crisis in the high desert of Himalaya

  22-04-2017 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  An ingenious idea to build artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures could transform an arid landscape into an oasisThe idea crystallised in his mind one morning as Sonam Wangchuk was crossing a bridge in the Indian Himalayas.The engineer from Ladakh, in the Jammu region of north India, was already a famous problem solver: a Bollywood film loosely based on his life had grossed a billion rupees in its first four days. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Nearly 40 million people live in UK areas with illegal air pollution

  22-04-2017 07:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: analysis commissioned by Labour reveals 59% of Britons live in areas where diesel pollution threatens healthNearly 40 million people in the UK are living in areas where illegal levels of air pollution from diesel vehicles risk damaging their health, according to analysis commissioned by the Labour party.The extent of the air pollution crisis nationally is exposed in the data which shows 59% of the population are living in towns and cities where nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution breache
  
  Read more

• Earth Day 2017: ‘The experts are fighting back’

  22-04-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With a climate-change sceptic in the White House, marchers worldwide are today spreading a message of hope that protest and science can save the world‘An exuberant rite of spring” is how the New York Times described 22 April, 1970. In Manhattan, and across America, “huge, light-hearted throngs ambled down autoless streets.” Earth Day had been born, an outburst of protest – and revelry – that involved everyone from save-the-whales activists to opponents of new
  
  Read more

• Chris Packham: ‘Sometimes the best way to make a change is to make trouble’

  22-04-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The TV presenter accused of assaulting hunters killing migratory birds in Malta says it’s time for committed environmental activismWe decided to go to Malta because we were fed up with the inactivity from NGOs about the endless trapping and killing of migratory birds there.We first went four years ago, then started to go annually to liaise with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter. It is an incredible organisation that attracts volunteers from all over Europe. When we first went, we put a
  
  Read more

• Chris Packham on Malta’s wild bird hunt: ‘The best way to make a change is to make trouble’

  22-04-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The TV presenter was accused of assault this week as he faced down hunters killing migratory birds. It’s time for committed environmental activism, he saysWe decided to go to Malta because we were fed up with the inactivity from NGOs about the endless trapping and killing of migratory birds there.We first went four years ago, then started to go annually to liaise with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter. It is an incredible organisation that attracts volunteers from all over Europe. When
  
  Read more

• Three glorious hours cut off by the tide

  22-04-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Foulney Island, Morecambe Bay This shingle spit provides winter quarters for thousands of eider ducksThe rising tide fetched with it slews of blue sky. As I walked the causeway jumble of rocks, the sea slopped gently below. I was about to be cut off for three glorious hours on Foulney Island.
  Saltmarsh metamorphosed into momentary lagoons. Dozens of curlew settled, probed, then lifted at the water’s ingress. Due west could be seen Piel Island, its castle all turrets and crumbling towers li
  
  Read more

• British power generation achieves first ever coal-free day

  22-04-2017 04:44 via theguardian.com
  
  National Grid hails milestone as other sources like gas, nuclear, wind and solar allow UK to keep lights on with all coal-fired powerplants offlineFriday was Britain’s first ever working day without coal power since the Industrial Revolution, according to the National Grid.The control room tweeted the milestone on Friday. It is the first continuous 24-hour coal-free period for Britain since use of the fossil fuel began. West Burton 1 power station, the only coal-fired plant that had been u
  
  Read more

Follow @UK_Environment on Twitter!