A family of wild of beavers has established on an English river for the first time since Henry VIII. But now the Government has decided to trap them and consign them to captivity in a zoo or wildlife centre. Defenders of wilderness are now demanding: keep our wild beavers free!
Let England's wild beavers be! Oliver Tickell | 1st July 2014 Comment Natural World Flooding UK Beavers Water river-otter-beavers.jpg A family of wild of beavers has established on an English river …
A 30-year decline in toad populations recorded by volunteers, shows the need to rebuild vital 'green infrastructure' across both the wider countryside and urban areas, writes Oliver Tickell: reversing habitat fragmentation, digging out ponds and ditches, and leaving ample unkempt areas for cover and hibernation.
Toad's 30-year decline shows 'large-scale deterioration of environmental quality' Oliver Tickell | 6th October 2016 News UK Switzerland Amphibians Conservation Development Ecology Natural World …
The same pattern of severe droughts that extinguished the Ancient Pueblo culture of the southwest US in the 13th century will come back with a vengeance later this century as climate warms and dries, writes Tim Radford. And it could have precisely the same effect on the region's modern-day residents.
Southwest USA faces long term 'megadroughts' this century Tim Radford Oliver Tickell | 17th February 2015 News Climate Change Water USA mesaverde_cliffpalace-cut.jpg The same pattern of severe …
The discovery of over 16,000 cracks in two Belgian reactor vessels may have global implications for nuclear safety, says the country's nuclear safety chief. He and independent experts are calling for the immediate checks of nuclear reactor vessels worldwide.
Belgian nuclear reactors riddled with 16,000 unexplained cracks Oliver Tickell | 18th February 2015 News Nuclear Energy Regulation tihange-cut.jpg The discovery of over 16,000 cracks in two Belgian …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
Europe on the brink - green future or industrial wasteland? Oliver Tickell | 12th December 2014 Comment EU UK Nuclear Natural World Trade Finance euro-comm-cut.jpg The EU faces a choice: a green, …
Limiting climate change is just the start of what we need to do to forestall a runaway cascade of species extinctions, write Bill Laurance & Paul Ehrlich. We must also reverse the destruction and fragmentation of key wildlife habitats, constrain our over-consumption of natural resources, stabilise human numbers - and elect leaders determined to prioritise these issues.
The debate is over: Earth's sixth great extinction has arrived Bill Laurance Paul Ehrlich | 18th November 2016 News Extinction Climate Change Conservation frog-cut.jpg Limiting climate change is just …
The destruction of the world's wilderness is accelerating with a new clutch of mega projects from dams, roads and mines to large scale agriculture, write James Watson, Bill Laurance, Brendan Mackey & James Allan. It's cost-effective to put a stop to it right now for the carbon value of wilderness alone - never mind the biodiversity and indigenous peoples it safeguards.
Wilderness needs immediate protection for climate - and much more James Watson Bill Laurance Brendan Mackey James Allan | 16th September 2016 Comment Climate Change Forests Wilderness Conservation …
A new study explains for the first time how nanoparticles like those in diesel exhaust fumes cause heart disease by lodging in inflamed blood vessels, writes Oliver Tickell. The study, published as the UK government is ordered before the High Court to justify its refusal to publish plans to tackle illegal air pollution which afflicts 38 million people, also raises wider fears about 'engineered nanoparticles' in the environment.
As government delays pollution plan, study shows how killer nanoparticles cause heart disease Oliver Tickell | 26th April 2017 News Science Pollution Health UK Law Technology …
The respected Russian campaign group Sakhalin Environment Watch is being forced to choose between registering as a 'foreign agent' label and closing down, writes Oliver Tickell. Environmental campaigning, it seems, is now a 'political activity'.
… plans to build pipelines across Gray whale migration routes. Since then the group has …
In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy than the G20's 2009 Pittsburgh Statement made shortly before the failed COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
… even greater geopolitical conflicts and mass migration of desperate refugees." Oliver …
Africa is facing an unprecedented surge in road and railway building with 33 huge 'development corridors' planned that threaten 2,400 of the continent's protected wildlife areas, writes Bill Laurance. We must block the most destructive plans and limit avoidable impacts on natural areas - before it's too late.
… this, the corridors will encourage human migration into many sparsely populated areas …