Green news roundup: bison, Fukushima and carbon capture
Originally Published by The Guardian- The week’s top environment news stories and green events .
Warm weather boosts hopes for rarest bumblebee's revival in Britain
Originally Published by The Guardian- Warm spring conditions should help Britain’s rarest bumblebee as wildlife experts reintroduce a new batch of queens to help boost the species. The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in 1988, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its habitat was lost, and was officially declared extinct in 2000.
European Commission Wants Total Ban on Driftnet Fishing
Originally Published by ENS – The European Commission today proposed to ban the use of any kind of driftnets for fishing in all EU waters as of January 2015. The nets kill marine mammals, sea turtles and sea birds protected under EU law.ld.
World Migratory Bird Day Connects Tourists with Conservation
Originally Published by ENS – Bird-loving tourists can help to conserve the birds that entice them far from home. This year, for the first time, World Migratory Bird Day is linking sustainable tourism with conservation of the 50 billion migratory birds now transiting their flyways around the world.
Melting Sharks
Global temperatures have been increasing drastically during the last 13 years. Maritime ecosystems are in danger as sharks, one of the species that helps maintain the balance of marine life in the ocean, are threatened by the melting of the poles and the rising temperatures.
Leatherback Sea Turtles
The issues treated throughout the investigation root from the eminent danger of global warming, and analyses of several aspects of it, such as the loss of the polar ice caps, coastline erosion, and the changes in precipitation indexes. Then, the project focuses on the consequences inflicted on leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys Coriacea) by the major changes on their environment.
Blue Planet Initiative Works Toward Atlantic Ocean Observing System
Oceans and Society: Blue Planet, a task of the latest Group on Earth Observations work plan, will present its vision for a new Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System at an upcoming GEO-X session.
Bald Eagles Are Mysteriously Dying in Utah, But No One Knows Why
Originally Published by Focusing on Wildlife – A growing number of bald eagle deaths in Utah have left state wildlife officials without any solid explanations as they continue to dig into the mystery in search of answers.
Purring monkey and vegetarian piranha among 400 new Amazon species
Originally Published by The Guardian – Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world’s largest tropical rainforest.