WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that effective February 1, 2010, the Campaign for America’s Wilderness (CAW) will become part of the Pew Environment Group, expanding Pew’s work to protect public …
Protesters hold up 11 coal trucks and a freight train in the latest action against opencast mining in South LanarkshireClimate protesters claim they have closed down one of Scotland’s main coal terminals, halting 11 coal trucks and a freight train, as activists extended their campaign against opencast mining in South Lanarkshire.Lucy, a camp spokesperson (she [...]
This week the 10,000th person joined a campaign to create the Earth’s biggest marine protected area in the Chagos archipelagoA coalition of conservationists is calling on the British public to urge Gordon Brown to create “Britain’s Great Barrier Reef” by designating its territory in the Indian Ocean as the biggest protected marine area on Earth.The [...]
Is the goal of climate sceptics to lead us into greater scientific truth – or merely to sow doubt about the temperature record?When you peruse the many sceptic arguments against man-made global warming, you find a tendency to focus on a narrow piece of the puzzle while ignoring the broader picture. This narrow focus serves [...]
Chris Hall’s letter questions whether the Ramblers is “on the frontline in getting the paths and countryside open” (Forget Twitter – ramblers need a grown-up campaign for access, 23 January). It neglects to mention that the charity recently (two months ago) achieved one of the biggest campaigning victories in its history: securing a continual walking [...]
Britain controls pesticide use to protect animals, wildlife and the environment, but not for people. This has to changeFor nine years I’ve been campaigning to get the government to take action to protect public health from pesticide spraying. Last July, the court of appeal overturned my case, making it only one of six court decisions [...]
• Measures fail to ease capital’s car-choked roads• Planners want city to be haven for cyclistsAfter wrestling for years with Beijing’s appalling traffic and pollution problems, city planners have come up with a distinctly old-fashioned solution: bicycles.Municipal officials want to boost the number of cyclists by 25% during the next five-year plan, state media reported [...]
Tom Franklin, chief executive of the Ramblers’ Association, claims “We’ve achieved a world-class network of paths and open access in the country” (Off the couch: Ramblers target the young, 18 January). He seems to have forgotten that less than three years ago the association itself stated that “more than 30% of paths in England Wales [...]
First butter was bad for you, then margarine. Now a new front has opened in the battle of the spreads, with fresh calls for trans fats to be banned. But will any of this really prevent heart disease?The butter v margarine wars, so reminiscent of 1970s advertising, were back this week. A flurry of headlines [...]