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“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.”
“The Iridium constellation operates in a low-Earth orbit about 780km above the planet.”
“The spacecraft are aligned in six planes and relay communications between themselves and ground stations to provide global coverage.”
“The Iridium Next project intends to replace these assets between 2015 and 2017.”
“The Franco-Italian manufacturer Thales Alenia Space (TAS) will build 81 spacecraft for the purpose.”
“Mr Musk's California-based SpaceX company already has a $1.6bn contract with Nasa to service the ISS with food and spare equipment.”
“The Royal Society and the Kavli Foundation spent £10m on the purchase and refurbishment of Chicheley Hall near Milton Keynes.”
“A new residential facility there can accommodate up to 100 scientists.”
“The Kavli Royal Society International Centre forms part of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary celebrations.”
“six-month environmental projects”
“Waste water discharges from treatment works have also improved, with NI Water reporting 90 percent compliance with standards.”
“This compares with virtually 100 percent in England and Wales.”
“NI Water is responsible for nearly a third of all pollution incidents in Northern Ireland.”
“Although the department has stated that it is not funded to achieve parity with England and Wales. The number of water quality incidents with potential health impacts has increased, partly due to improved reporting. Waste water discharges …”
“A government panel of scientists now believes 35,000-60,000 barrels are leaking from the well each day, up from its estimate last week of 20,000-40,000.”
“BP's initial estimates were 1,000-5,000.”
“opinion polls suggest a majority of Americans disapprove of how Mr Obama has handled the crisis - the worst environmental disaster in US history.”
“The Forestry Commission has pledged £13,000 to help prevent grey squirrels encroaching on the Harwood Forest reserve, near Rothbury.”
“We have 17 red squirrel reserves in northern England and the work undertaken in the buffer zones is vital.”
“The grant, spread over three years, will pay for an experienced trapper to work on land within the zone owned by a local farmer.”
“The Raploch Community Partnership has been given £35,494 by the Scottish government to aid its bid to save more than five tonnes of carbon emissions.”
“The CCF has £27.4m to distribute to green projects.”
“Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said the fund had helped 261 communities in Scotland.”
“The Scottish government has a target to cut emissions by 42% before 2020.”
“Liverpool City Council has already rejected two planning applications for the plant, which would handle about 150,000 tonnes of waste a year.”
“The village has more than 100,000 fully grown trees, mostly of mango and lychee.”
“The scientists found that there was at least 100 times more water in the Moon's minerals than they had previously believed.”
“It would be about 2.5 times the volume of the Great Lakes," he said. "Or another way of looking at it - if you took all of the water that was locked up inside the rocks of the Moon and put them on the surface, it would make a metre-thick l…”
“It would be about 2.5 times the volume of the Great Lakes," he said.”
“Or another way of looking at it - if you took all of the water that was locked up inside the rocks of the Moon and put them on the surface, it would make a metre-thick layer covering the Moon.”
“The scientist explained that the Moon most probably formed after a Mars-sized space body collided with the young Earth, some 4.5 billion years ago.”
“Nevertheless, the scientists said that their research shed light on the origins of lunar water, asserting that it was "native" to the Moon. Earlier in 2010, a radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft found thick depos…”
“Earlier in 2010, a radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft found thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon's north pole.”
“The new study has been published in the journal PNAS.”
“"It is gratifying to see this proof of the OH contents in lunar apatite," commented lunar scientist Bradley Jolliff from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.”
“We're thinking now that there might have been a cometary input as well," said Dr Taylor.”
“He explained that there were a lot of comets flying around at the time of the Moon's formation, "hitting the little, nascent, early Moon some 4.5 billion years ago".”
“US researchers found cumulative global emissions since 1850 would have been one third as much again without the Green Revolution's higher yields.”
“Meeting extra food demand this way would have released about 160 Gigatonnes (billion tonnes) of carbon (GtC) over the decades - which, the researchers note, 'corresponds to 34% of the total 478 GtC emitted by humans between 1850 and 2005'.”
“Without the new crops - but with the growth in the human population and all the other socio-economic trends seen since the 1960s - feeding the world at current levels would mean the use of more than twice as much land as is currently used …”
“That's about 20 years of fossil fuel burning at present rates," observed Dr Davis.”
“A two-year £34m project to tempt drivers in Cardiff to switch to sustainable transport is in danger of failing, says an environmental charity.”
“cutting transport carbon emissions by 3% by 2011”
“The sea eagle project was expected to last five years and to cost £600,000, but its whole future is now in doubt.”
“Natural England has announced the withdrawal of its financial support.”
“We're not bowing to opposition," he said. "We have listened to farmers and landowners and they have entirely legitimate concerns, but all of the research shows that their concerns are either unfounded, or could be overcome. "Today's decis…”
“The sea eagle, or white-tailed eagle, is a rare and protected bird with a wingspan of up to 8ft (2.5m).”
“It was hunted to extinction in the British Isles, but over the last 30 years it has been re-introduced successfully in parts of Scotland.”
“The Synthetic Biology Public Dialogue was commissioned by the two UK research councils responsible for funding what has been dubbed "synthetic biology"... The research councils, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (B…”
“Professor Paul Freemont, co-director of the UK centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, said his gut reaction to this idea was that it could be "very difficult". But he said that as he thought more about it, he decided it w…”
“"Having the word 'synthetic' next to the word 'biology' does provoke a reaction in people that can be negative," he said.”
“"So this is a real quantum leap in science which people have described as the second industrial revolution".”
“"Craig Venter did artificially create that cell," he said.”
“The North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership has won funding of £109,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.”
“The first trainees are expected to be taken on in the autumn and the others will follow on over the four-year life of the project.”
“He said: "They need regular maintenance by skilled professionals to stay in good condition, but the numbers of dry-stone wallers have been dwindling."”
“The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia. ... A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range.”
“The Hayabusa mission was launched to asteroid Itokawa in 2003, spending three months at the 500m-long potato-shaped space rock in 2005.”
“The main spacecraft, along with the sample-storage capsule, should have come back to Earth in 2007, but a succession of technical problems delayed their return by three years.”
“The container, on the other hand, was equipped with a shield made from carbon phenolic resin which is capable of enduring temperatures that were expected to reach 3,000C on the re-entry.”
“Just three hours before the spacecraft began its plunge into Earth's atmosphere, it pushed the sample capsule out in front.”
“"Tomorrow (Monday) or day after tomorrow, we will pick up the capsule itself. ... We will package the capsule and then send it back by aircraft - it's a special aircraft - from the Woomera range to Tokyo International Airport, to go to our…”
“"On Stardust, the entire sample return was on the order of thousands of nano-grams. That was thousands of grains, each of which weighed about one nano-gram; and one of those grains you could spend a year studying," he told BBC News.”
“"If we look at anything on Earth it has been thoroughly through the wringer; it's been messed up by plate-tectonic processes and geochemical processes. So if we want to look at what our Earth was made of, we have to leave Earth. That's the…”
“The main spacecraft was destroyed during the descent, accounting for most of the spectacular light show south Australians saw in the night sky.”
“However, Japanese space agency (Jaxa) officials remain confident of success. They say a lot of dust would have been kicked up when Hayabusa landed on the space rock to make the grab, and some of this material must have found its way inside…”
“Oil has been leaking into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on 20 April and sank off the coast of the US state of Louisiana, killing 11 workers.”
“A team of scientists put together by the US government and co-ordinated by the US Geological Survey has estimated that 20-40,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking into the Gulf of Mexico before a containment cap was placed on 3 June.”
“Tree-planting in Manchester has trebled over the past year as a result of community group schemes and the BBC's Tree o'clock campaign.”
“More than 12,000 new trees were dug in parks, streets and gardens, representing a rise of 8,000 on the previous year.”
“The Tree O'clock campaign in December planted 50,000 new trees nationwide.”
“Professor Colin Humphreys, an expert in metals at Cambridge University, was also knighted for his services to physics.”
“While Professor Martin Shirley, of Cambridgeshire, director of the Institute for Animal Health, was appointed CBE for services to science.”
“The fact remains that industrial country pledges fall well short of the 25-40% range [from 1990 levels by 2020] that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said gives a 50% chance to keep the global temperature rise below 2C”
“"Fifty-fifty is what I'd give this last week," said Grenada's delegation chief, Dessima Williams, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).”
“We heard demands for example that 6% of our GDP should be transferred from rich countries to poor”
“we only have two weeks negotiating time left before we meet in Cancun”
“The UN process reconvenes in August for a week-long meeting in Bonn”
“there is likely then to be another preparatory meeting in China in October”
