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Ortolan bunting - Roger Tidman, Corbis

Europe’s birds

: Early warning here. I imagine the report itself, once released, will be illuminating. There are several other links off the Guardian article below. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/14/a-third-of-europes-birds-under-threat-says-most-comprehensive-study-yet

El Nino heat map - AFP / Getty images

El Nino has, apparently, arrived.

: This cyclical weather phenomenon has apparently finally arrived. NOAA said it started in March 2015, although few of the physical signs appeared. The link below shows Australia, Japan and…

Human embryo at the 16 cell stage - Dr Yorgos Nikas, Science Photo Library

CRISPR: for good or ill?

: Here’s a story to twist your mind in many different directions πŸ™‚ πŸ™ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/10/crispr-genome-editing-dna-upgrade-technology-genetic-disease

Group Membership

One of our objective is to build and maintain a mutually fruitful cooperation with groups we establish some sort of partnership. Obviously it would be beneficial for both side if…

Association of Journalists and Writers for nature and ecology

Pangolin campaign shared on JNE’s fb public group

: A big thank you for Marie Paule and Laurent Samuel for sharing our Pangolin campaign on the fb group of JNE: “Association des journalistes et Γ©crivains pour la nature…

TheGuardian

The Guardian and Gates

: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” …with assumptions and with ignorance of potential risk and consequences. I can understand the biased ardour of The Guardian’s Keep…

Gregory Boyce chairman, Peabody Energy - Aaron M. Sprecher, Getty Images

Vested interests vs. climate change

: This is what these times are actually about: just who is in charge of our globalised world? http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/29/fossil-fuel-companies-defy-warnings-on-burning-reserves

Sudan, one of the six remaining northern white rhinos

Rhinos

: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/last-male-northern-white-rhino

Our website moved to Scotland

Hi everybody, I have the pleasure to inform you that, effective from today, our website hosting has been transferred to Inverness, Scotland, and now it is in the expert hands…

Rotoroa Island - Rototoa Island Trust

Rotoroa: Creating a novel ecosystem

: I like this story: for far too long people have ben accused of ‘playing God’ whenever they’ve tried to do something positive for our natural world. On the other…

Shrinking Pastoruri glacier - Karel Navarro, AP

Re-inventing glacial loss!

: I like this story, much to learn from it πŸ™‚ http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/apr/15/peru-glacier-melt-metals-farmers-adaptation-pastoruri

Inuits - ravenswood-inuits.weebly.com

Message from the Inuit: Our world has moved

: Very timely post, thanks πŸ™‚ href=”http://www.newspaper.indianlife.org/story/2015/01/05/news/earth-has-shifted-inuit-elders-issue-warning-to-nasa-and-the-world/582.html

EU EEA Soer study - European Environment Agency

European Union environment

: This status and outlook synthesis just arrived, file is about 16 mb and available in several languages http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer

Sharp decline in British wild salmon

This is a curious and concerning story. Later this month data will be released that underpin this. Are we seeing similar impacts elsewhere? http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-loss-of-scottish-salmon-is-a-cultural-catastrophe-10158356.html

Amazon Corridor – AVAAZ Petition

This one is worth signing, thanks. Michael πŸ™‚ https://secure.avaaz.org/en/amazon_corridor_dn_c/?bggwyeb&v=56336

Hydrogen-powered trams

This looks very promising, mass-transportation of people in cities has long been a problem. πŸ™‚ http://rt.com/news/242985-china-hydrogen-power-tram/

Protecting the deep ocean

This was published in 2011 but remains a nice summary of the major issues concerning exploitation and protection of the deep ocean; an area we still know little about. http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/aug/03/protected-areas-deep-sea-environment

Fracking: Europe is not America

Good point πŸ™‚ http://rt.com/news/242821-europe-fracking-impact-costs/

Great Green Wall

This article is from 2012, I’d never even heard of it, but it’s an excellent idea. I was in West Africa a few years ago, including Senegal ~ many of…

Pitcairn Island declares marine reserve

This news came via a friend, but I’ve yet to see the offical guidelines for it. The MCS article below notes it will be off-limits to all extractive and damaging…