Environment news

• Climate change: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report

  08-12-2018 21:25 via bbc.co.uk
  A major climate conference in Poland has failed to adopt a key report after a dispute over a form of words.
  
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• Bitterns, curlews and lapwings at risk as vital wildlife funds dry up

  08-12-2018 17:00
  Bird experts call on ministers to plug gap left by EU grants worth millions of poundsThey are some of the most elusive birds to nest in the UK. Indeed, they hide so well in their reedbed homes that ornithologists can only estimate bittern numbers by counting the sources of the booming sounds made by males in summer. It is a census that has produced alarming results. Only 11 booming bitterns were counted across the country in the 1990s.But since then the bittern has begun to bounce back – t
  
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• 'We live in a lobstocracy': Maine town is feeling the effects of climate change

  08-12-2018 12:00
  When lobsters are life, environmental change affects livelihoods, and warming waters will ultimately bust the lobster industryThe American lobster is a symbol of Maine, central to the state’s ethos and economy.Its image appears on license plates, restaurant signs and clothing. It is sold alive, with its claws banded shut, on docks, at highway rest stops and supermarkets. Cooked, it is served everywhere from seaside shacks to the finest restaurants. Continue reading...
  
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• Airlines ignoring efficient planes in blow to carbon targets – study

  08-12-2018 12:00
  TUI Airways comes top of 2018 Atmosfair Airline Index while Virgin Atlantic ranks 83rdAirlines are failing to take up the most efficient planes in sufficient numbers to make a significant dent in their carbon dioxide emissions, a new study has found.The most efficient new aircraft models, such as the Boeing 787-9 and Airbus A350-900 and A320neo, can achieve substantial carbon savings over older models, but no airlines have invested sufficiently in the new types to reach the top levels of energy
  
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• Are real or fake Christmas trees better for the planet?

  08-12-2018 10:00
  Artificial trees are getting more popular, but environmentalists say they have a downsideIf the surge in sales of artificial trees at John Lewis and other stores signals an attempt by consumers to go green, then they should perhaps think again.With 8m real trees in the process of being purchased this Christmas, the idea of saving one from the axe might be prompting the move to fake ones this year in the belief that they are more environmentally friendly. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It's medieval': why some cows are still living most of their lives tied up | Tom Levitt

  08-12-2018 09:00
  A farming practice where cows are tethered and restricted to sitting or standing is still commonplace, particularly in southern Germany. Now farming groups are calling for a banJürgen Weber points to a lesion on the hind leg of one of his cows, a common health problem in “tie stalls”, where the animals are kept permanently restrained in one position. His herd of 30 cows face each other in two rows inside the dim, low-ceilinged barn on the side of the family home in the town of B
  
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