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“the death, aged 83, of the American theoretical biologist Robert Trivers.”
“Even if all emissions stop now we're in for another 20, 30 years of increasing temperatures”
“Since 1983, mining companies have conducted operations while maintaining a 100-foot barrier between their activities and streams.”
“The school, 18 miles up the valley from Selkirk, has emerged as Scottish winner of the Appetite for Action programme which focuses on green initiatives. [...] Jenny Wiggle, of Global Action Plan, presented the school with a cheque for £3,0…”
“the great thinkers in the history of Western thought”
“What we see as extreme now becomes the new normal over that 20, 30-year time frame”
“Scottish Water has cut leaks by nearly 100 million litres a day despite a rise in burst pipes over the winter.”
“the most influential and consistently correct theoretical evolutionary biologists of our time”
“The Mount Lofty region is one of fifteen biodiversity hotspots. It has only ten percent of the vegetation that was once here before Europeans arrived”
“"Back in 2002, we put an upper limit on the neutrino mass of 1.8 electron volts. So this is an improvement by a factor of six," said co-author Professor Ofer Lahav, from UCL.”
“His 2015 memoir, Wild Life”
“You're going to lose half the woodland bird species across this large region”
“Professor Lahav believes neutrinos are a minor component of cold dark matter, the mysterious "stuff" which comprises some 25% of the Universe and more than 80% of matter in the Universe.”
“Jeffrey Epstein then gave Trivers $40,000 to continue his research into the connection between human knee symmetry and sprinting ability”
“Bio·R Managing Director and Associate Professor, David Paton is leading the charge to see volunteers plant twelve Adelaide Ovals worth of trees in South Australia by the end of June, 2023.”
“"The neutrino is squeezed into that slice [of the Universe] that is dark matter. But it probably accounts for less than one percent of that dark matter," he told BBC News.”
“the Crafoord Prize — the equivalent of the Nobel in biological sciences, worth half a million dollars”
“Bentinck Void, is the home to Great Crested Newts and protection has been increased from 5.4 hectares (13.3 acres) to 34.6 hectares (85.4 acres).”
“At the end of his career in 2015, notwithstanding his intellectual renown, he was suspended and eventually quit Rutgers University”
“Plans to dump waste at the site were refused in March 2010.”
“word of his receipt of the Crafoord Prize — the equivalent of the Nobel in biological sciences, worth half a million dollars — had got round town”
“As well as its population of great crested newts, the former quarry lake, ponds and surrounding land are home to important breeding populations of smooth newts, common frogs and common toads.”
“Breeding amphibians are not represented as features of special interest in any other Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the East Midlands, making the site special in the region, a spokesman for Natural England said.”
“The boundary also takes in special habitats of lowland calcareous grassland and flower-rich marshy grassland in the area.”
“A £300,000 school improvement project has been put on hold following the discovery of bats in the building.”
“An initial survey identified pipistrelle bats which migrate to hibernation roosts during the winter.”
“However, it is thought that the school loft may also be home to rare Leisler's bats - which would be an added complication for the council.”
“The most likely solution is that alternative accommodation, in the form of bat boxes, will be provided.”
“Once the bats have been encouraged to vacate the school and take up residence in the boxes, we are hopeful of being allowed to start the building works.”
“Eton Wick residents will gain an early benefit with a barrier being installed in the first phase of works to reduce noise.”
“The council says strict noise levels have been set to protect residents.”
“About 20 barrels of vacuum gas oil were spilled at Esso's Fawley terminal on Sunday night as a ship was unloaded.”
“Oil has been washing on to two miles (3.2km) of Hampshire coastline after a pipeline leaked in Southampton Water.”
“Fareham Borough Council said it was informed by Esso of the spill at 0800 BST on Monday.”
“He said about 50 people working at the coastline had been taken off duty "to get the appropriate clothing".”
“A section of beach from Hill Head Sailing Club to Mean Shore was closed at about 1530 BST and signs erected, but some people have criticised the clean-up response.”
“BP says they will be using 32 oil separation machines owned by Costner's company to clean up the water.”
“BP document has revealed the company estimated that 100,000 barrels of oil a day could, in theory, flow from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well.”
“That amount, included in an undated internal document released by US Congressman Ed Markey, is nearly twice the current US estimate of the leak.”
“It has also fitted a containment cap and another device to the well head, which are capturing an estimated 25,000 barrels of oil a day”
“BP says the worst-case scenario figure of 100,000 barrels a day was irrelevant because it was based on what might happen if the well's blowout preventer was removed, which the company had no plans to do.”
“A study for the 10:10 climate campaign suggested putting clocks forward during winter to an hour ahead of GMT could save almost 500,000 tonnes of CO2.”
“Researchers say cutting carbon emissions by 450,000 tonnes would be the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off Britain's roads.”
“The carbon savings associated with this clock change are significant, equivalent to the carbon footprint of the production of 1,800 plastic bags for every home in Britain every year, or taking around 200,000 cars off the road.”
“Eugenie Harvey, director of the 10:10 campaign, which aims to get businesses, government and individuals to help cut the UK's emissions by 10%, said:”
“The research will be presented at an event at Parliament on Monday.”
“The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure said it believed the fish died due to low water levels, increased temperature and a lack of oxygen.”
“On 20 June, a Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) officer investigated the dead fish at Portavoe and found no evidence of pollution, but witnessed some distressed fish in the lower levels of the reservoir.”
“The website of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure says that there are about 6,000 trout in the reservoir, which can be fished exclusively by fly fisherman.”
“Dozens of trout have been found dead in a reservoir in County Down.”
“This physical condition is known as furunculosis and is common at this time of year under simillar physical conditions.”
“I am not certain what the remedy is but the trout do need to be netted and taken out and destroyed. There is no point leaving them down there to suffer like that.”
“A containment cap and another device are capturing some 25,000 barrels of oil a day - the latest estimates suggest 35,000-60,000 barrels a day are spewing out.”
“People are being warned against going into a river in West Lothian after vandals caused 2,000 litres of diesel to spill into the water.”
“The River Almond is 28 miles (45 km) long, rising in North Lanarkshire near Shotts and running through West Lothian, draining into the Firth of Forth at Cramond near Edinburgh.”
“one of which has reached two miles (3km) below the seabed, or about two-thirds of the way to its target, US disaster co-ordinator Admiral Thad Allen reported on Thursday.”
“BP plans to seal the leak with concrete but that is not likely to happen until August at the earliest.”
“According to the National Trust 97% of traditional hay meadows have been lost in last 80 years.”
“The five acres, at the National Trust's Plas Newydd, now has a wealth of grasses and flowers, including orchids.”
“The most unusual is the butterfly orchid though, with only one being found on the five-acre site.”
“around 25,000 barrels oil of were recovered from the sea on Thursday”
“35,000 to 60,000 barrels US experts estimate are leaking into the Gulf every day”
“by 2005, 90% had disappeared”
“The national survey identified 30 'vole hotspots'”
“Water voles are extinct in Cornwall”
“the remaining two populations in Devon still very small”
“the agency's project workers are releasing hundreds of voles across England and Wales this year”
“Friends of the Earth has complained to the European Commission after the UK government gave backing before full environmental assessments.”
“It is calling for Welsh Environment Minister Jane Davidson to call in the application.”
“The Cleddau estuary and the Milford Haven waterway are both protected areas and home to an abundance of wildlife.”
“Our public consultation on the company's application for an environmental permit to operate the plant came to an end some weeks ago.”
“Greenpeace said the move was 'irresponsible'.”
“HMRC said it was capable of producing up to 1.75m litres of illicit fuel a year”
“HMRC has removed over 20,000 litres of toxic waste, the residue of the laundering process.”
“A 'global pattern' of change in the Earth's climate began 2.7 million years ago, say scientists.”
“the four tropical ocean basins”
“almost three million years”
“since the inception of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 2.7 million years ago”
“They will hold sediment from the eastern arm of Ormesby Broad and are aimed at improve water quality and encouraging wildlife in a £120,000 project funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).”
“"The world's largest market is about to shut its gates to companies profiting from illegal trafficking and forest destruction," said Sebastien Risso, forest policy director for Greenpeace EU.”
“Their computer simulation showed temperature falling decades after CO2's decline, with changed rainfall going on for several more decades after that.”
“The hypothetical future saw concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rising to four times pre-industrial levels over 70 years, then returning to the baseline over a similar period.”
“On the other hand, we could reach atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases equivalent to a quadrupling of CO2 by the end of the century.”
“The computer simulation also suggested that if greenhouse gas levels remained elevated for an extended period, the rainfall changes would then endure for longer after emissions began to decline.”
“High latitude countries such as Canada and Russia would receive more rain and snow, whereas other regions such as the Amazon basin, Australia and parts of sub-Saharan Africa would receive substantially less.”
“The Met Office computer model is known to project more drying of the Amazon than most others.”
“at least 50m litres of raw or poorly-treated sewage is released into the sea daily”
“one of which burst in 2007 causing at least five deaths”
“A study of the bones at the University of Mainz confirmed that the remains were those of a woman who died aged between 30 and 40.”
“They tell the journal Nature that the occultation lasted only 10 seconds.”
“The lead author of the study, MIT professor of planetary astronomy, James Elliot, told BBC News that... he had to get together a team of 42 astronomers from 18 observation stations located in Australia, South Africa, Mexico and the US.”
“his team used a number of observation stations along a 5,900km stretch of the Earth's surface that corresponded to the predicted shadow path of the space body.”
“Using this data, the team determined the object's size - about 300km in diameter - and its albedo, or ability to reflect light.”
“He said that a dwarf planet known as Haumea might have been hit by another object, and this impact caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen smaller pieces, including KBO 55636.”
“We found out that this object is much smaller than we thought before and that it is very reflective - it reflects most of the light that hits the surface.”
“The US firm recently announced a $2.9bn project to upgrade its network of 66 operational satellites from 2015.”
“The rocket has only just made its maiden flight, completing a flawless ascent to orbit on 4 June.”
“Wednesday's deal is valued at $492m, making it one of the largest commercial launch contracts ever signed.”
“The Virginia-based mobile satellite services company says it expects to engage at least one additional rocket company.”
“Iridium has about 360,000 subscribers worldwide who use its network of satellites to make calls and send data.”
