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“The annual Good Beach Guide is published on Friday and lists results of water quality tests conducted from May to September 2009.”
“The regional pattern to this rainfall means that some regions such as north west England and Scotland fared worse in this year's guide whereas others like the Channel Isles did markedly better, a spokeswoman said.”
“Water quality was tested at 769 beaches in the UK”
“The list included Rock in Cornwall, Paignton Sands, Robin Hood's Bay, Bridlington South, Chalkwell Bay at Southend, Plymouth Hoe and the main beach at Weston super Mare, it said.”
“There is debate over "feedback" effects on the climate The UK's Royal Society is reviewing its public statements on climate change after 43 Fellows complained that it had oversimplified its messages.”
“The society's ruling council has responded by setting up a panel to produce a consensus document. The panel should report in July and the report is to be published in September.”
“It is chaired by physicist John Pethica, vice-president of the Royal Society.”
“Its deliberations are reviewed by two critical sub-groups, each believed to comprise seven members.”
“A Royal Society pamphlet Climate Change Controversies is the main focus of the criticism. A version of it is on the organisation's website. It was written in response to attacks on mainstream science which the Royal Society considered scur…”
“I know it looks like a tiny fraction of the total membership (1,314) but remember we only emailed our friends - we didn't raise a general petition.”
“We sent an e-mail round our friends, mainly in physical sciences, Then when we had got 43 names we approached the council in January asking for the website entry on climate to be re-written.”
“One of the society's Fellows who said he was not absolutely convinced of the dangers of CO2 told me: "This appears to suggest that anyone who questions climate science is malicious. But in science everything is there to be questioned - tha…”
“Lord May was once quoted as saying: "'On one hand, you have the entire scientific community and on the other you have a handful of people, half of them crackpots."”
“The remit of the society panel is to produce a new public-facing document on what scientists know, what they think they know and which aspects they do not fully understand.”
“At the Heartland Institute climate sceptics conference in Chicago, Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), criticised the current society president Lord Rees for what he described as exagge…”
“The letter, published by the Financial Times newspaper, states: "Something unprecedented is now happening. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising and climate change is occurring, both due to human a"”
“scientists have long known that storms can create waves some 20m high.”
“The researchers found that the induced bottom stress was still critical at depths of up to 90m.”
“The scientists based their study on the observations of the powerful category 4 Hurricane Ivan that raked the Gulf of Mexico in 2004.”
“They installed six large sensors on the seafloor to record changes induced by hurricanes in underwater currents.”
“some 50,000km of pipelines.”
“And the most surprising thing was that the period in which this bottom stress could be damaging persisted for about a week after the hurricane passed.”
“This triggered a spill that has so far spewed tens of thousands of barrels of oil into the ocean.”
“There are more than 20,000 pipes in the UK which pump raw sewage into the sea.”
“But some of these pipes are being used dozens, even scores of times every year.”
“We know CSOs that are going 80, 100 times a year plus. Now this isn't under emergency conditions, this is used to discharge raw sewage instead of treating it.”
“Bruce Newport of the Environment Agency said the pipes "may well be [used] dozens of times a year but they're only protecting the main sewage systems when you've got freak storms."”
“It knows that the European Commission is accusing the UK of sending raw sewage into our seas "too frequently and in excessive quantities,"”
“On Anglesey, for example, we might well be looking at things like the red squirrel conservation programme, the geodiversity project, Geo Môn, and the coastal path as the kind of schemes to be supported”
“"On Anglesey, for example, we might well be looking at things like the red squirrel conservation programme, the geodiversity project, Geo Môn, and the coastal path as the kind of schemes to be supported," he said.”
“Opponents of a 48-turbine wind farm in the Borders are planning a protest march through the Lammermuir Hills.”
“There are already hundreds of turbines in the Lammermuirs.”
“We will conduct a moratorium for two years where we stop the conversion of peat land and of forest”
“Deforestation - the burning of woodlands or the rotting of felled trees for farms, roads or towns - accounts for up to 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions from human activities”
“We've released four families of animals into the wild here at Knapdale.”
“Three beavers disappeared last August after reports of unauthorised shooting in the trial area.”
“Two miles downstream from the beavers at Barnluasgan is Seafield Farm where Jane Allan manages holiday cottages and makes baskets.”
“Mrs Allan added that three beavers have turned a "fairly small marshy puddle" into a little loch and she thinks such change will continue.”
“After a 400 year absence from Britain they wasted no time in getting to work.”
“The first 12 months of this five year trial have seen their ups and downs.”
“Scotland's first baby beavers in four centuries would not be welcomed by all.”
“The oil workers were evacuated and BP suspended oil production for several months at two Azeri fields.”
“The BP spill off the US coast happened at a depth of nearly 1,524m (5,000ft), making repairs very difficult, as only robots can operate there.”
“She says using gas to increase the pressure and extract more oil is dangerous and nearly caused an accident in autumn 2008, as too much gas was used. 'Gas was leaking and the workers said they could smell gas, which was about to trigger an…”
“Oil pollution has affected the migration routes of sturgeon, according to the UN's Caucasus Environment Outlook in 2002. It says sturgeon now swim through highly polluted water near Azerbaijan's Absheron Peninsula...”
“Atlantis, with its six-person crew, has just delivered a Russian mini-module and spare equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).”
“The orbiters are due to be retired this year, and just two more outings are planned - for Discovery and Endeavour.”
“Atlantis's crew launched on 14 May fully expecting their mission to be the last for the ship.”
“First flown on 3 October 1985, Atlantis has now completed 32 missions and travelled about 195 million km (120 million miles).”
“Work on the contaminated ground will be completed in September 2010.”
“Scientists hope to discover why 60% of the species' offspring born in captivity are female and whether this happens in the wild.”
“Ibream is studying faeces samples from 15 European zoos, including Edinburgh, to learn more about female hippos' monthly cycles and if hormones found in them can show whether they are pregnant or not.”
“However, for every two males born, three female babies are born, making zoo management complex.”
“Coldingham Bay is one of seven beaches in Scotland which have been given the coveted international award in 2010.”
“Montrose Seafront in Angus and Elie Harbour Beach in Fife lost their Blue Flag this year after failing to meet the criteria.”
“Another 56 beaches have been commended for their quality by Keep Scotland Beautiful (KSB).”
“Among those picking up the Seaside Award for the first time in 2010 include Sandend in Aberdeenshire, Abroath and Lunan Bay in Angus and Bruce Embankment in Fife.”
“Special recommendations have also been given to 16 beaches which have achieved the award for more than 10 years in a row.”
“These include Gullane Bents in East Lothian, which has consistently won the accolade since the scheme began in Scotland in 1993.”
“when we had lower levels of predators the birds were breeding much better with about three-times higher breeding success”
“the study found that without predator control less than 20% of breeding birds were able to raise their young.”
“More than 50% of breeding pairs were able to successfully raise their young when predator controls, traditionally the preserve of gamekeepers, were in place.”
“We had a nine-year project that looked at what happened on sites where we reduced the level of predators and compared it with sites with higher levels of predators.”
“The study said grouse numbers increased due to predator control”
“The investigation found that it was not only the grouse population which increased. The numbers of threatened wading birds such as curlew, lapwing, and golden plover also showed significant rises.”
“What we're seeing here is a whole series of failures. We've identified... at least seven.”
“The company has said it estimates a 60-70% chance of success.”
“A conservative estimate of the amount of oil escaping is about 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons, 795,000 litres) a day”
“The US government has declared a 'fishery disaster' in the seafood-producing states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.”
“a 150-mile stretch of coast”
“50 miles (80km) off the Louisiana coast”
“heavy drilling fluids - such as mud - will be injected into the well about a mile (1.5km) underwater”
“In the tests which began on Tuesday, five spots on the well's crippled five-story blowout preventer were being checked”
“I have to say that it will be a day or two before we can have certainty that it's worked”
“Researchers from Sydney, Australia recruited more than 600 people aged either over 80 or over 65 with a history of falls.”
“They discovered that the brains of gregarious locusts were 30% larger.”
“Working with colonies of gregarious locusts, Dr Ott and his Cambridge colleague Dr Stephen Rogers, converted some of them into the solitary phase by keeping them in isolation for three generations.”
“we have about 100 individual boxes with all the supplies they need.”
“Dr Ott and his team had previously shown that a signalling chemical in the brain, called serotonin, was crucial in this sudden change in the insects' behaviour - causing a solitary creature to become part of this frenzied swarm.”
“promised $500m (£346m) to study the impact of the spill and response efforts on the environment over the next 10 years”
“The oil giant will try to plug the leaking well in a so-called "top kill" operation on Wednesday.”
“A day earlier, BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the process - never attempted at such depths before - stood a 60-70% chance of working.”
“The White House said on Tuesday that BP was complying with the government's request to use smaller quantities of a toxic dispersant to fight the spill, following concerns over its impact on marine life.”
“Professor John Sulston said it would inhibit important research.”
“The team outlined the remarkable advance last week in the prestigious journal Science.”
“"The confrontation 10 years ago was about data release," Professor Sulston said.”
“"We said that this was the human genome and it should be in the public domain. And I'm extremely glad we managed to pull this out of the bag."”
“"But Professor Sulston, who is based at the University of Manchester, said patenting would be "extremely damaging"."”
“"I've read through some of these patents and the claims are very, very broad indeed," Professor Sulston told BBC News.”
“"They would have a monopoly on a whole range of techniques."”
“"Most if not all of these have likely filed some degree of patent protection on a variety of aspects of their work so it would seem unlikely that any one group, academic centre or company would be able to hold a 'monopoly' on anything."”
“"As the JCVI team and Dr Venter have said, open dialogue and discussion on all issues surrounding synthetic genomics/biology, including intellectual property, is very necessary for this field so these questions and discussions are all very…”
“The report was produced by the Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation at Manchester University, which the professor chairs.”
“He believes that the over-use of patents is inhibiting research that could otherwise greatly benefit society, such as better healthcare for the poor.”
“"But he also believes that these arguments are now beginning to be accepted. Last November, a US company, Myriad Genetics, lost parts of its patent rights on two breast cancer genes following a legal challenge by civil rights groups."”
“Phoenix would have been covered by carbon dioxide ice, and Nasa always said it was likely the mission would be destroyed in such harsh conditions. The latest pictures taken from orbit show Phoenix to have a smaller outline, indicating it w…”
“The mission was scheduled to last just three months on the surface, but continued to work for more than five months.”
“Launched from Earth in August 2007, the robot arrived on Mars on 25 May 2008, landing further north than any previous mission to the Martian surface.”
“Phoenix was sent to Mars with seven science instruments”
“landing further north than any previous mission to the Martian surface.”
