A major US wind energy company is fined $1 million in the country's first-ever settlement over bird deaths caused by wind turbines, after 149 protected birds were killed.
… Wind turbine bird deaths - company pays $1m fine Eco-Watch | 29th November 2013 News Wind Renewables Energy Regulation golden-eagle.png A major US wind energy company is fined $1 million in the …
The government's decision to turn down the 1GW Navitus Bay offshore wind farm near the Isle of Wight sends a chilling message to developers: 'don't waste your time and money here!' The refusal of planning permission based on visual impact to a geological world heritage area is capricious and threatens to kill off an industry in which the UK has been - until now - the world leader.
… Navitus Bay offshore wind refusal - UK energy and climate policy … | 25th September 2015 Activism UK Renewables Wind Regulation Politics navitus-wind-park_002-cut.jpg The government's …
Renewables good, fossil fuels bad... unless, of course, renewables begin to take up more and more land in order to meet our energy needs. Paul Kingsnorth adds fuel to a tricky debate.
… | 1st April 2008 News Renewables Nimby Wind Solar Biofuels Land Use Equity Climate Change Dams Tidal Solar Wind Climate Change Climate Change Natural … yet fully have grasped. The battle is over a wind farm – potentially the world’s biggest – …
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond faces criticism over his decision to allow offshore oil drilling at the same time as pledging Scotland could achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025
… Change Renewables Oil Energy Natural World windturbinesoffshore.jpg Scotland is on target … for electricity by 2050 through offshore wind and tidal power. However, green … READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Offshore wind: can we afford it? High costs of offshore …
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting policymakers with complex and difficult choices. The Worldwatch Institute’s latest look at Earth’s “vital signs” sees dangerous times ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates
… use is up (as is, more encouragingly, wind and solar power), while carbon emissions … the encouraging signs was the growing use of wind power, spurred by concerns about climate … energy security. Outside of Europe – where wind capacity rose 19% last year -- Asia …
Stuck for ideas when you're stuck with the kids? Here are five outdoor activities from the Wildlife Trusts' new book '152 Wild Things to do'
… Kite flying is an excuse to get thoroughly windswept and to lose yourself watching clouds … shape-shift across the sky. Wait for the wind to pick up, then walk to the top of the … good gust and then launch your kite into the wind. Feel immense pride as it glides through …
The UK Government is seeking to 'Justify' the Hitachi ABWR reactor type for new nuclear build at Wylfa and Oldbury. But as Mark Hackett reveals, the design is a dismal failure in Japan, costs more than alternatives, and brings serious health hazards.
… well after 2024. The NIA attacks solar and wind The NIA argues that even if solar PV and wind end up requiring lower strike prices - … " the sun doesn't shine at night and the wind doesn't blow all the time " is overly …
As the UK Prime Minister welcomes the recommendations of his science advisors to 'go it alone' in Europe and embrace GMO crops, Pat Thomas wonders - whatever happened to the Precautionary Principle?
… GMOs - Throwing precaution to the wind Pat Thomas | 15th March 2014 Comment EU …
The UK's community energy sector was badly hit by the financial regulator's sudden decision this summer to disallow renewable energy co-operatives, writes Tammy Calvert. A consultation on the topic ends tomorrow, Friday - so get your views in quickly while you can!
… The wind turbine at the end of the rainbow. Photo: … sell electricity from their solar panels or wind turbines direct to members. Instead, they …
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.
… is the beauty. Along the peninsula, the road winds through fishing settlements known as … maples and yellow birch glow against the wind-stunted fir and spruce. Seawards, in the … tell you that the Bonavista peninsula is windy all year but never gets particularly hot …
Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.
… brought in from across the Atlantic. Trade winds that sweep close to the surface of the … process. When passing over the warm ocean the winds pick up massive quantities of water … being drawn across the Atlantic in the trade winds, and so the cycle is complete. Every …
When nuclear reactors are refueled, a 12-hour spike in radioactive emissions exposes local people to levels of radioactivity up to 500 times greater than during normal operation, writes Ian Fairlie. The spikes may explain infant leukemia increases near nuclear plants - but operators provide no warnings and take no measures to reduce exposures.
… emission and a large radioactive plume downwind of the station lasting for 12 hours or … living near nuclear power stations and downwind from them will be exposed to high doses … source term, proximity to the reactor, wind speed, wind direction, and the diets and …
Who are we? We are the people who are ready to fight back, writes Derrick Jensen. The people who no longer live in hope that the Earth will be saved, but in the certainty that we will save her. We are activists, survivors, lovers and fighters. And we say: the destruction will stop.
… the shark. We speak for the soil, for the wind, for the snow, for the ice caps. We speak … voices that are no more and no less than the wind moving in and out of our bodies, over our …
To find out about habitats, species and ecosystems are faring, don't just look, writes Ella Browning. Listen! Many species are hard to see, but have distinct auditory signatures, and advances in electronics suggest a future of landscapes 'wired for sound' feeding data streams for ecological analysis, not to mention detecting criminal activities from 'black' fishing to illegal logging and hunting.
… prey or even just find their way around. Wind whistles, rain hammers and streams … natural but non-biological sounds like rain wind and waves (geophony). Humans often don't …
The growing trend for GM crops incorporating herbicide resistance now threatens to flood Europe's crops and groundwater with the Agent Orange chemical 2,4-D. The madness must stop now.
… GMOs Gm Food Farming EU Regulation crop-spray-wind.png The growing trend for GM crops … are highly volatile and will drift by wind to other fields. There are many mixtures …
Thanks to the efforts of local residents, Ennerdale has been restored to its natural glory. Matilda Lee takes up the villagers' inspiring tale
… streetlights makes a night drive through the winding mountainous roads to Cumbria’s Low … own definition of wild from unpredictable wind, to the wandering sheep to the bits of …
Next week the indigenous peoples of the Yukon challenge their Government in the Territory's Supreme Court, writes Jill Pangman. At issue, its plans to open the Peel watershed, a vast unspoilt ecosystem rich in wildlife and cultural meaning, for industrial development.
… in the translucent shallow waters of the Wind River. A great arc of limestone peaks … outfitter in the Bonnet Plume, Snake and Wind River drainages since the 1960's, and has …
An ancient grassland SSSI at Rampisham could be saved following a government decision to put an 'hold' notice on the West Dorset Council's planning consent for a huge solar farm, writes Martin Harper. Now Eric Pickles must 'call in' the case to a public inquiry, or set a truly dreadful precedent for our most precious nature sites.
… from the exposed nature of the site, open to wind, rain and the fierce summer sun. The … that this decision needed challenge. As with wind farms the RSPB is in principle supportive … of renewable energy developments. But as with wind farms our line is simple - they must be …
Koide Hiroaki has spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer, and has become a central figure in Japan's movement for the abolition of nuclear power plants. He met with Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai to discuss the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daaichi in March 2011, and the crimes and cover-ups committed both before and after the event.
… American coast, and the prevailing westerly winds will carry anything released into the … of this material will ride the prevailing winds across the Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, closer to the ground, the winds will be east, south, and north, and …
Want to mix a little conservation with your holiday? Volunteering on Skomer Island, a haven for seabirds and nature lovers, is a rewarding experience says Eifion Rees
… of Jack Sound can be choppy, with northerly winds and bad weather meaning cancelled … against the island's rocky shores and the wind is a constant presence, the towering …
The seabirds of Shetland and Orkney are in ‘deep trouble’, according to the RSPB. Could this be the first real indicator that our lives are about to change quickly and dramatically as a result of climate change?
… quickly and dramatically if we don’t act now. Wind farms are part of the potential solution, … of structures in the sea; structures such as wind or wave farms. And guess which arm of …
Talis Kalnars was a pioneer of 'continuous cover' forestry in Britain, writes Phil Morgan. His woodlands were not only beautiful but profitable, as he nurtured the 'natural capital' of the forest ecosystem, and only harvested the dividend of high value timber.
… structure you can block off cooling winds, increase the effective area of … structure is greater resilience against the wind. I have had one even-aged hectare plot … the woodland system or exposing the trees to windthrow. He pointed to an area across the …
Daniel Crockett guided a 300km walk along ancient horse routes through the Westfjords, a remote, depopulating region of Iceland rich in nature, myth and magic. The wild, non-human environment enters our beings, he writes - and thus infected, the onus is on us to spread the message far and wide.
… travel beneath bird cliffs. Curious, fickle winds stir in the fjords, jerked this way and … up on top, lie underneath it, go up into the wind and sing songs about it. A pair of …
Following this month's intense rainfall in the north of England an Environment Agency alert has highlighted the flood risk to the crumbling nuclear waste dump adjoining Sellafield in Cumbria, writes Marianne Birkby - a dump which remains in use despite its condemnation by the EA in 2005 due to its likely destruction by rising seas. Now it really is time to close the gate on Drigg!
… been repeatedly hit by torrential rain and wind this month. But there has been little …