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A study by the University of Worcester in England and Britain’s National Trust has found the bees that live in towns and cities eat a more varied diet than those living in rural locations.
Country bees rely mostly on monocrop farms, while urban and suburban bees have a wider range of flowers to feed on.
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A plan to kill off some 1,500 badgers in the north Pembrokeshire area of Wales via trapping and shooting has been reversed by a Welsh appeals court.
Many farmers and government ministers in Wales, concerned that bovine tuberculosis (TB) is being spread to cattle via badgers, supported the cull.
On Tuesday animal welfare advocates, including the RSPCA [...]
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama addressed the American people on national television, live from the Oval Office, in an attempt to inform and assure the nation about efforts to deal with the United States’ largest environmental disaster ever. He also urged support for a move away from fossil fuels and towards a reliance on renewable [...]
Scientists in Germany have observed and filmed bonobos – a close relative of the common chimpanzee – shaking their heads from side to side in what is believed to be body language for ’saying no’.
Bonobos have already been observed using head shaking to express other emotions, but same signal meaning ‘no’ for both bonobos and [...]
The cloud of ash over the UK and much of Europe is continuing to disrupt air traffic as eruptions from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano continue. When flights will resume regular service is still unknown. UK air traffic controllers have suggested that British airspace may reopen at 7am tomorrow, yet major carriers have cancelled all flights for [...]
The volcanic eruption on Iceland has resulted in the ‘most significant in living memory’, according to a BBC News report. The flight cancellations in the UK and other European countries are even more extensive than what occurred following the attacks on September 11th, 2001.
As the ash moves southward from Iceland towards the British Isles and [...]
A census on marine life in the Antarctic called The British Antarctic Survey seeks to shed some light on how the wide variety of animals that live on the Antarctic sea floor might react to climate change.
According to the survey, which began in 2005, ‘the Polar Regions are amongst the fastest warming places on Earth’. [...]
Not to be outdone by its fellow large expanse of sea and longtime nemesis, the larger Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean can now claim a colossal plastic garbage patch of its own.
According to reports from the BBC and AP, the Atlantic ‘Rubbish Patch’ – located within the latitudes of 22 and 38 degrees N in [...]
In Japan, the giant salamander – or hanzaki – is a national monument. Children sing its praises and a festival is held in its honor. Unlike most salamanders, which are generally only a couple of inches or a few centimeters in length, the hanzaki can grow to be an enormous 1.5 meters (5 feet) long [...]
A new report by the Forest Footprint Disclosure initiative discloses how global business is destroying the one of the world’s most valuable resources: its rainforests. A UK government backed project, Forest Footprint Disclosure’s aim is to inform investors and the public about how organizations contribute to deforestation.
The results are not good: the beef, soy, palm [...]
The cold snap or ‘big freeze’ disproves global warming. The heat wave the UK experienced last June proved it was real. Sometimes what’s obvious or ‘crystal clear’ is anything but. Climate change and global warming are – precisely as their names would suggest – global phenomena concerning climate, and not local weather events, as many [...]
According to a piece in the London Times ‘two thirds of dairy farmers in England and Wales have gone out of business in the past decade,’ with another failing every day. The culprit? For one, it’s cheap milk. Prices are so low on standard, non-organic milk that dairy farmers in the UK have trouble turning [...]
The strains of human civilization take their toll on the natural environment in many ways – not least among them the biodiversity of our planet. The loss of species is in fact unsustainable – to both the species and ecosystems that vanish and to humanity who benefits from those species and ecosystems in so many [...]
Two stories from the BBC highlight how very different societies are adapting to climate change – specifically to the threat of flooding and rising water levels. One article explains how a new study conducted by researchers in the United States suggests that reconnecting flood-plains to rivers would decrease chances of future flooding and lessen the [...]
A poll was taken between June 19th and October 31st to see how the world viewed climate change. Of the 24,071 people that participated, a whopping 64% said that yes, climate change is a “very serious” problem. The survey was conducted by GlobeScan for Britain’s BBC World Service and the 64% result is actually a [...]
A recent piece in the London Times entitled ‘After lunch we’ll save the planet’ documents a project that set out to calculate the carbon footprints of four families living in the U.K. It came up with some interesting results. The families consider themselves to be living generally Green lifestyles and are conspicuously upper middle class. [...]
The BBC’s Box project followed a functioning metal shipping container on its journey from port to port around the world for over one year. The Box’s trip lasted 421 days and covered 51,654 miles (83,129 km) circling the globe twice, mostly by boat, but also using rail and road. Its contents included such treasures as [...]
Grizzly Man he is not, but the similarities between the professional life of biologist Lynn Rogers and the well-known pursuits of Timothy Treadwell – slain subject of director Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary – will likely draw a few extra viewers on October 28th, when the BBC’s debuts Bearwalker of the Northwoods. Treadwell was a gung-ho [...]
When I say ‘caught on tape’ I don’t mean to say that the orcas were doing anything wrong. They were just taking advantage of the mackerel that managed to wriggle out of the massive nets of a Scottish fishing vessel. Poor mackerel: escaping death by fishing boat only to be relinquished into the awaiting jaws [...]
The BBC has just opened Wildlife Finder, the world’s largest zoo online. On this site you can see over 370 animals doing their “thing” right out in their own habitat, rather than the cramped, faux settings of a regular zoo. Visitors to this online zoo can search through their favorite animals, habitats and ecosystems, and [...]
Sometimes you just gotta love the Beeb. The BBC’s interactive website Bloom – ‘smart choices for the carbon conscious,’ features a wealth of information on environmental issues. The site is beautifully done, a pleasure to navigate and offers a vast array of tips on how to make your life Greener. Just click on ‘find actions’ [...]
