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Category: Environment
Seahorses stalk their prey by stealth
Seahorses may appear slow and awkward but they are ferocious and ingenious predators, according to a new study.
Atlantic Array wind farm dropped by developer
Plans for a huge wind farm off the north Devon coast have been shelved.
Maintain status quo on Rajuk Purbachal project: SC
The Supreme Court on Monday directed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to maintain the status quo on the development work on its Purbachal housing project under Barakau and Parabarta moujas in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur district.
Bumper winter vegetables likely in Netrakona
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken a massive plan to cultivate winter vegetables in ten upazilas of the district during the current Rabi season.
Cultivation of late variety Nazirshail starts in Gaibandha
Cultivation of late variety Nazirshail rice has started becoming popular among the farmers of Teesta River basins under six unions of Sundarganj upazila in the district in recent years.
Climate change poses threat to livelihood in Barind tract
Adverse impact of climate change has started posing a serious threat to the farming sector alongside overall living and livelihood condition in vast barind tract consisting the districts of Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabgonj for the last couple of years.
Bird alarm: Great tits use ‘predator-specific’ calls
Great tits use different alarm calls for different predators, according to a scientist in Japan.
Fruit bats harbour more deadly viruses
Bats harbour more deadly viruses than was previously thought, scientists say.
Last-minute deal saves fractious UN climate talks
UN climate talks in Poland have ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming.
Carbon emissions set to hit new record high in 2013
The amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere in 2013 is expected to hit a new high of 36 billion tonnes, according to a Carbon Budget released today by the Global Carbon Project (GCP).
‘Retailers should educate farmers on safer use of pesticides’
Speakers at a meeting here have called upon the pesticide retailers for awakening and educating farmers and providing them necessary knowledge to ensure safer and optimum use of chemical pesticides in crop fields.
UK orders “crack down” on inappropriate solar PV sites
Energy Minister Greg Barker has written to every local authority in England and Wales warning them to only allow planning consent for solar PV installations where they are “sensitively placed”.
UN climate talks in Warsaw bogged down on key details
UN talks on climate change taking place in Warsaw have been extended as delegates remain deadlocked on key issues.
US firm Duke Energy pays out over wind farm eagle deaths
A huge US energy supplier has agreed to pay out $1m (£620,000) over the deaths of golden eagles at two wind farms.
Greenpeace denies ‘Arctic 30’ group were ill-prepared
A senior Greenpeace official has denied that a group held in a Russian jail after a protest against oil-drilling in the Arctic were ill-prepared.
Cyclone ‘Helen’ crosses India’s Andhra coast
The severe cyclonic storm, ‘Helen’, over the west-central Bay and adjoining area moved westwards and crossed Andhra Pradesh coast near Machilipatnam of India at 3 pm on Friday.
Green groups walk out of UN climate talks
Environmental campaigners walked out en-masse from climate talks here in Warsaw saying they felt no progress was possible.
Five British Greenpeace activists freed from Russia
Five Britons arrested by Russian authorities during a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic have been freed on bail after two months in detention.
Fresh effort to clone extinct animal
Scientists in Spain have received funding to test whether an extinct mountain goat can be cloned from preserved cells.
Expanded cultivation of flood tolerant rice for food security stressed
Agriculture experts at a farmers’ field day have stressed for expanded cultivation of flood tolerant rice to attain sustainable food security through increasing rice production under adverse climate.
Farmers urged to farm flood tolerant paddy to avoid losses
Agri experts in a function here on Wednesday urged the farmers to cultivate flood tolerant paddy on the land of flood prone areas in larger scale to avoid the losses and help the country achieve food security.
‘Cinderella’ gas a threat to climate and ozone layer
By Matt McGrath The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has issued a warning about the dangers posed by nitrous oxide, the so-called “laughing gas”.
Edinburgh forum says putting value on nature could save it
By Claire Marshall Business leaders and environmentalists say putting an economic value on nature could be the best way to save it.
Study estimates 400,000 seabirds are killed by gillnets
From: Jordanna Dulaney, MONGABAY.COM A recent study from the Biological Conservation journal brings shocking news: every year across the globe, an estimated 400,000 seabirds are killed by gillnets.
Children’s congenial heart defects linked to toxins
From: Editor, ENN Approximately 8 out of every 1,000 newborns have congenial heart defects — abnormalities in the heart’s structure that happen due to incomplete or irregular development of the fetus’ heart during the first stages of the mother’s pregnancy.
Protein imbalances doom hybrids
Why do crosses between closely related species fail to produce fertile hybrids?
The fallout from Fukushima
From: Chris Busby, The Ecologist A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
Seedbeds being prepared for Boro cultivation in Gaibandha
Seedbeds are being prepared by the farmers to grow healthy seedlings for Boro paddy farming in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current Boro season.
Potato cultivation in C’nawabganj
An extensive potato cultivation plan has been taken up in the district this year.