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Choosing trees to cool urban areas in hot weather
The discomfort associated with hot, dry summers in some urban areas can be reduced by planting the most appropriate trees in open city spaces, according to a recent study. The researchers identified the Indian laurel fig...
Scottish Government retains climate change target
The Scottish Government has laid regulations which will build further on its Climate Change Act and its target of reducing carbon emissions by 42 per cent by 2020.
Google invests in two wind farms
Internet search giant Google Inc has invested $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota that generate enough energy to power more than 55,000 homes.
Landfill sites and shooting ranges to be converted into nature reserves
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) fear the UK is in danger of becoming a barren urban landscape with a few tiny pockets of wildlife fenced-off in old fashioned reserves. Under a radical new approach to...
Disease threatens to fell Britain's historic oak trees
The English oak is under grave threat from a little-understood new disease that forestry experts fear is spreading far more rapidly across the country than previously estimated.
Offshore wind farms to be used for air defence
Offshore wind farms will double as radar defence systems in a pioneering deal involving the Ministry of Defence, which previously opposed the erection of almost 1,000 wind turbines off the UK's eastern seaboard because o...
Empty skies proved that airports cause pollution, say researchers
Scientists have used the no-flying period caused by the volcanic ash cloud to show for the first time that airports are themselves significant causes of pollution. Although long suspected, the fact that mass take-offs an...
Australia plans tough Great Barrier Reef shipping laws
Australia is planning to subject commercial ships passing through all parts of the Great Barrier Reef to greater surveillance. The tough new measures are intended to protect the region from pollution. It follows the grou...
UK relying on 'virtual water'
The UK's reliance on 'virtual' water, in imported food and other supplies, is exacerbating water shortages in other countries, according to a report from leading engineers. They warn the UK's future development could be ...
Current GHG emissions trends will not deliver Obama's targets
The latest report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reveals a growing carbon chasm between US emissions trends and the cuts needed to reverse emissions output to meet President Obama's target.