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A new article reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton have been declining globally over the 20th century. Phytoplankton forms the basis of the marine food chain and sustains diverse assemblages of species ranging from tiny zooplankton to large marine mammals, seabirds, and fish.
The director of BBC North has no plans to actually move there – more fool him, says Philip Hensher.
The fashion for covering gardens with decking could be behind a recent decline in the Britain’s most common butterflies conservationists fear.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 28, 2010) – Pollution continues to contaminate the water at America’s beaches, causing 18,682 closing and advisory days in 2009, while this year the oil disaster has already led to 2,239 days of beach closing, advisories, and notices in the Gulf region, according to the 20th annual beachwater quality report released today [...]
WASHINGTON (July 22, 2010) – Following is a statement from David Hawkins, Director of Climate Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council:“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today delivered very bad news to the American people. Continuing obstructionism by the Senate Republican leadership, joined by a handful of Democratic senators, is still blocking the way forward on [...]
The portable device would supply hydrogen to the micro fuel cells of electronic gadgets
Yes, say ecologists, but not if the current enthusiasm for corn ethanol continues to hold sway
When the turbines go up, it’s not just the scenery that suffers, it’s the atmosphere too. Ed Douglas reveals the environmental costs of wind power
BP is being prevented from selling fuel anywhere in central London this morning by Greenpeace activists who have shut down every petrol station in the capital and put up signs which say: "Closed. Moving beyond petroleum".
Later this morning BP is expected to announce the appointment of Bob Dudley as the company’s new CEO. Greenpeace [...]
OUR marsupials descended from South American ancestor, shocking new research claims.