2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 22 of 27.
“The UK government is likely to approve "targeted" badger culls in England in the next few years.”
“Paintbox Ltd has pledged to spend £1m on a carbon filtration system to help remove a bad smell that wafts over part of the town.”
“nearly double the amount of oil it was collecting from the ruptured undersea well by next month”
“50,000 barrels a day”
“The US Geological Survey says that flow rate could have been reached before a cap was put on the well on 3 June.”
“"The lowest estimate that we're seeing that the scientists think is credible is probably about 20,000 barrels, and the highest that we're seeing is probably a little over 40,000," said Marcia McNutt, director of the US Geological Survey.”
“York-based company Green-Tech has now donated 80 tonnes of topsoil to replace the contaminated soil.”
“Tests revealed that the banned weed killer sodium chlorate was used to poison the displays.”
“It was feared that the soil could be contaminated for up to five years.”
“which produces more than 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union”
“among the 4,000 miles of rural verges we cut”
“The orchid, which flowers between May and July”
“is classed as 'vulnerable' meaning it is considered to be facing 'a high risk of extinction in the wild'”
“It is found in less than 80 sites in the UK”
“but has thrived at the verge in Mascoombe Bottom for 50 years”
“The annual results also show a rise in pollution incidents, with serious incidents trebling, which the company put down to increased monitoring.”
“But the number of Category 1 and 2 incidents - the most serious - rose from three to nine, while Category 3 incidents went up from 230 to 311.”
“It found the assembly government cut its flights by 42% between 2006 and 2009, second only to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.”
“The report, Excess Baggage: the case for reducing government flying, gave the assembly government a green rating for its commitment to reducing flights taken by ministers, AMs and civil servants.”
“The Scottish government has unveiled a multi-billion pound plan to create a 'zero waste' society by the year 2025.”
“Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said it was time to tackle nearly 20m tonnes of waste currently produced by Scotland every year.”
“A new 70% target has been set for all waste to be recycled by 2025 and a maximum 5% target for all waste to be sent to landfill by the same year.”
“It is hoped that no waste with re-use or recycling potential will be placed in landfill by 2020.”
“In recent years, the people of Scotland have made substantial progress in cutting waste but households, businesses and wider society still produce enough waste to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool every 10 minutes.”
“Speaking at the official launch in Edinburgh, Mr Lochhead said the zero waste plan would also help deliver progressive landfill bans. It is hoped that no waste with re-use or recycling potential will be placed in landfill by 2020.”
“Green MSP Robin Harper told BBC Scotland he believed a zero waste strategy could be achieved but he remained worried that a 25% cap on incineration of waste could 'turn into a target'.”
“For every tonne of waste we could make about £600 in recycled products if we could get all the system working. If we burn it, we are only going to get £20 worth of electricity out of it.”
“a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling will stay in place until safety is assured”
“the pause, which was put in place following the 20 April explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig”
“the amount of oil captured from the leaking well could almost double by next week”
“the containment operation was now catching up to 630,000 gallons (2,864,037 litres) daily”
“he hoped the existing containment structure would soon be able to hold 1.17 million gallons per day”
“We're only at 15 [15,000 barrels] now and we'll be at 28 [28,000 barrels] next week”
“600,000 to 1.2 million gallons a day are leaking from the bottom of the sea”
“underwater oil plumes have travelled at least 64km (40 miles) from the leaking well”
“over thirty years”
“0.2 - 0.3 degrees C each decade”
“The permafrost has warmed by 2.5 degrees since 1985.”
“upper limit of sea level rise by the end of the century could be 2m”
“sea level rise of 1m by the end of the century”
“ran from March 2007 until March 2009”
“the results were published for the first time during the polar science conference and show that, in North America and parts of Russia, temperatures have risen by a steady 0.2 - 0.3 degrees C each decade.”
“"In North Alaska it's worse," said Lewkowicz. "The permafrost has warmed by 2.5 degrees since 1985."”
“In 2008 the United Nations Environment Programme passed a resolution expressing "extreme concern" over the impact of climate change and highlighted potential consequences.”
“The Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010 report, officially launched at the conference this evening, provides evidence that some of these anticipated impacts are already taking place”
“The company is spending £50m on measures such as turning farmland into new tidal habitat to attract wading and migrating birds by breaching a 975ft (300m) sea wall later this year.”
“For the fourth year in a row, about a third of honeybee hives in the United States died off during the past winter.”
“An estimated 80,000 bees were removed from the loft.”
“Their nest, which had been in place for about three years, fit into a space approximately a metre square.”
“The 2,000 km-wide, 8km-deep Hellas basin is a giant impact crater - the largest such structure on Mars.”
“The researchers say their data support a lake between 4.5 and 3.5 billion years ago.”
“"This mapping makes geologic interpretations consistent with previous studies, and constrains the timing of these putative lakes to the early-middle Noachian period on Mars," said Dr Leslie Bleamaster, research scientist at the Planetary S…”
“Some 30% of fish stocks are estimated to be badly depleted already.”
“The move is being made as 245 marine scientists from 35 countries have joined forces to call for a worldwide system of very large, highly-protected marine reserves.”
“So far, they say, just 0.5% of the ocean is fully protected from fishing.”
“Two separate lines of potato have been grown to test genes in a field setting.”
“Wild South American species are inedible and produce tiny tubers, so scientists sieved out just the genes of interest from the 30,000 or so in their genomes.”
“Curently two more field trials are being carried out - on potatoes in West Yorkshire by the University of Leeds and in Cambridgeshire on Maize by Bayer Crop Science of Germany.”
“Some 11,000 barrels of oil were being trapped by a containment cap”
“a couple of months”
“more than 100 miles (161 km) of coast”
“150 miles west of Tampa”
“within 72 hours”
“six weeks”
“Four US states have now been affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill”
“Some 11,000 barrels of oil were being trapped by a containment cap, he said.”
“An observation flight spotted a sheen of oil 150 miles west of Tampa, Florida, on Sunday.”
“Tar balls continued to wash ashore on Monday in Pensacola, Florida, and the popular tourist town of Panama City, in the same state, expected oil to reach its beaches within 72 hours.”
“We have just entered the area of uncertainty for about half of our beach,”
“The US states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have so far been affected in the six weeks since the spill began.”
“Councillor Liam Maxwell said that the incentives seem to have worked, and the the success of the 6,000 household pilot scheme last year had seen a 74% take-up rate with more than six million points amassed so far.”
“The UK must reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by nearly two-thirds by 2020 to meet EU targets, but Mr Pickles ruled out the possibility of any "pay as you go charges" and said it was time "to bury bin tax forever".”
“The Deepwater Horizon rig sank on 20 April after an explosion, killing 11 workers.”
“A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day”
“The amount has risen since Saturday, and implies more than half the estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking each day is now being captured.”
“It is only an hour's flight from an airbase in Louisiana to the centre of the oil crisis.”
“the surf-line still looks stained... from 500ft up, the surf-line still looks stained.”
“And then we arrive - 50 miles from the coast - and the sight is stunning.”
“About a mile from the ground zero of this crisis, a faint smell of petrol wafts into the cabin.”
“the gathering of some 20 vessels and rigs must be one of the greatest concentrations of oil industry muscle in one spot.”
“The gathering of some 20 vessels and rigs must be one of the greatest concentrations of oil industry muscle in one spot.”
“from 500ft up, the surf-line still looks stained.”
“At the weekend, the Japanese Space Agency (Jaxa) announced that Hayabusa had successfully completed its third Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM), designed to guide the spacecraft towards a touchdown in the Australian outback.”
“The spacecraft now lies within about 3,600,000km of our planet.”
“The mission has been beset with problems. Hayabusa made two "touchdowns" on Itokawa designed to collect rocks and soil, but apparently failed to fire a metal bullet designed to gather the samples.”
“A fuel leak in 2005 left Hayabusa's chemical propellant tanks empty, so engineers had to use the spacecraft's ion engines to guide the spacecraft home.”
“Its sample return capsule is scheduled to detach from its "mothership" and land at Woomera on 13 June, but there is no guarantee of mission success.”
“Just one further, more detailed, correction manouevre is planned for the spacecraft before its sample capsule is returned to Earth at around 1400 GMT on Sunday.”
“Hayabusa returned astonishing images from its encounter with Itokawa”
“Pioneer Hi-Bred, based in Buxtehude near Hamburg, says NK603 has been planted on "just under 2,000 hectares (4,940 acres)" of land.”
“The environmental group Greenpeace put the area as high as 3,000 hectares.”
“In the affected fields, up to 0.1% of the crop is contaminated with NK603 - equivalent to 100 contaminated plants per hectare, Greenpeace says.”
“Company spokesman Mike Hall told the BBC that the level of NK603 detected in the "conventional seed" was 0.03%.”
“Ms Becker said the contamination affected about 2,000 hectares and originated from two sacks of seeds.”
“"This is the biggest GM crop scandal in Germany to date," said a Greenpeace agriculture expert, Alexander Hissting.”
“The species was last seen in the UK in 1988, but populations on the other side of the world have survived.”
“we think possibly that delayed them quite a bit, possibly by even a month.”
“we didn't get quite as many queens coming through”
“the bee was a 'keystone species' which was key to pollinating about 80% of important crops.”
“The short-haired bumblebee was exported from the UK to New Zealand on the first refrigerated lamb boats in the late 19th Century to pollinate clover crops.”
