Icebergs, until now a powerful symbol of the damage caused by global warming, seem to have decided to save the world from this threat instead. A team of UK scientists aboard the Royal Navy’s HMS Endurance (RN Antarctic Ice Patrol Ship and class 1A1 ice breaker, Read more…
Welcome to EcoNewsOnline which aims to bring interesting and easily digestible articles on new ecological research and news to all those who wish to sift out the truth about the global ecology from the many myths that abound. Most proponents of improving the Read more…
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) helps individuals, businesses and local authorities in the UK to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change. (See www.wrap.org.uk). Every day we watch on Read more…
With the increasing shouts of alarm over the use and production of biofuels, scientists are actively looking for alternative fuel sources that won’t impact adversely on the lives of millions of people world wide. So what should they be looking at in their search for new and Read more…
It has now been estimated that the growing economic strength of the European Union has doubled the ecological pressure on the planet in the past 30 years, according to a WWF report.
Despite technological advances, environmental pressure has Read more…
Air New Zealand has just become the latest airline to float the skies using bio fuels in a move that is hailed (by some) as a huge advance in the struggle to find an alternative to the oil based economy. Many however are justifiably concerned that the increase in plantations Read more…
The loss of organic matter is one of the various threats to the soils that have been identified by the European Commission. Soils act as vast carbon sinks and could therefore become emitters of green house gasses when the carbon holding organisms decay. Read more…
“It may be doubted whether there are many other animals … which have played so important a part in the history of the world”. Charles Darwin.
In some fascinating new research, scientists have found that the humble earthworm can provide a new sensitive and detailed Read more…
In an alarming new assessment of the oceans and their ecological health, Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, believes that human impacts are laying the groundwork for mass extinctions in the oceans Read more…
In these days of intergovernmental protocols such as Kyoto, and other large scale continent wide initiatives it may seem obvious that whatever you and I as individuals do will be ineffectual except on such a small scale as to make no appreciable difference. Well now it seems Read more…
There are many issues that remind us of the fragility of our world and its ecosystems – climate change, habitat destruction, GM plants and so on ad infinitum and these multifarious issues generally lead us to worry about the uncertainty in the ecological balance of nature Read more…
To many people, the ecology/green movement is a modern day invention arising from our increasing concern about global warming, but here we show you that in fact eco thinking has been a long time in the making. In future issues we’ll take a more in depth look at Read more…
