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“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.”
“The partnership project is being run by Natural England, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the RSPB and Hymettus.”
“During the pilot scheme residents were rewarded for recycling with points worth up to £135 a year.”
“During the trial period, 70% of eligible households activated their rewards accounts.”
“Recycling from those involved increased by at least 35%, the council said.”
“Since 2006 the amount of waste rejected has risen from 9.8% to 21.5% in 2009.”
“In 2006/07 1,450 tonnes of the total 14,856 tonnes were rejected”
“but in 2008/09 3,519 tonnes of the total 16,332 tonnes were rejected.”
“The Defra figures showed that in 2009 Teignbridge District Council was unable to process 463 tonnes of waste for recycling”
“In other years the figure for Teignbridge District Council has been nearer 23 tonnes.”
“Implementing this proposal would result in Defra hitting their Government Estate recycling target 12 years early and so living this aspiration”
“Implementing this proposal would result in Defra hitting their Government Estate recycling target 12 years early and so living this aspiration.”
“Mr Pickles said the scheme had increased recycling by 35% and an incentive-based approach was more effective than taxes or fines in reducing the amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites.”
“Adm Thad Allen said 6,000 barrels of oil were captured in the first 24 hours after the operation began on Thursday.”
“This represents between a third and a half of the estimated daily leakage since the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on 20 April, killing 11 workers.”
“On its twitter-feed, BP stated it had captured a total of 6,077 barrels of oil on Friday.”
“The new figure exceeds rough estimates made on Friday suggesting the cap was funnelling the equivalent of 1,000 barrels a day.”
“Adm Allen also said that winds had pushed the slick closer to about 200 miles of coastline stretching from the Mississippi-Alabama border to Port St Joe in north-west Florida.”
“The estimates for the total amount of oil that has leaked since the spill began vary widely from 20 million to 45 million gallons.”
“BP is also digging two relief wells which it hopes will provide a permanent solution to the leak - but they are not due to be completed until August.”
“A wildlife project in Berkshire has received a £220,000 boost after a successful bid for lottery funding.”
“A total of £380,000 is being invested in the scheme.”
“It's predicted we might lose 40% of our wildlife species over 50 years.”
“in the years before 1995 we found important areas of wetlands were being destroyed and that's real problem for Cornwall's wildlife.”
“we've lost some quite significant areas of wetland habitat, about 60 football pitches across the county.”
“Enclosed farmland has also decreased with about 4,700 acres lost to developments.”
“The rate of loss of important wildlife habitats has gone down, so in the years before 1995 we found important areas of wetlands were being destroyed and that's real problem for Cornwall's wildlife.”
“The worrying thing about it is it's the edge of farmland people are willing to sell, when that's the most important part for wildlife because of the hedges and scrub.”
“"The Jupiter impact produced a pattern of debris some 5,000km long and 2,800 km wide - half the size of the Earth."”
“"And even if the response of the Earth atmosphere is different from that of Jupiter, entire continents could be destroyed."”
“"We cannot devote the Hubble space telescope or other telescopes to observe Jupiter regularly, it is impossible," he said. "And the amateurs make a very good survey of what is happening there, contributing to our database."”
“The slender groundhopper has been discovered at a few locations in the Cairngorms National Park.”
“The slender groundhopper tetrix subulata in Scotland has so far only been found in a few locations, all of which are threatened by new housing development within the Cairngorms National Park.”
“which has closed 75,920 sq miles (1.96m sq km) of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing.”
“More than 1,700 vessels, including skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery vessels, are being used.”
“more than 13.8 million gallons of oil-water mix have been removed.”
“Around 371 miles of floating boom are being used as part of the efforts to stop oil reaching the coast.”
“More than 120 controlled burns have been conducted, which is said to have removed a total of more than 2.8 million gallons of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and wildlife.”
“A £7m plan to flood an area of farmland in Lincolnshire to create a wildlife habitat has been rejected.”
“In the face of rising sea levels this means that there will be a loss of protected intertidal habitat which we must compensate for. The scheme at Donna Nook would provide habitat to replace that lost between Grimsby and Saltfleet.”
“Our interest is to predominantly maintain and improve flood defences on their existing line.”
“A £2bn project to improve beach water quality in the South West is coming to an end in Devon after 20 years.”
“Operation Clean Sweep has been deemed a success by South West Water, with 97% of beaches now passing water standards.”
“There are a whole range of factors affecting Paignton Sands... we're spending £2m, part of that in Paignton, investigating the causes”
“The Marine Conservation Society said the area would not meet new standards, set to be enforced in 2015”
“Gwynt y Mor will be Wales' largest wind farm, capable of powering around 400,000 homes, and preventing the release of 1.7m tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.”
“BP has lowered a cap on to a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, in the hope of piping some of the oil to ships on the surface.”
“BP said some oil had started flowing up the pipe attached to the cap, but it could take the rest of the day to determine how much.”
“The US Coast Guard said the cap would only be a temporary, partial fix.”
“Live underwater video footage from the site on Friday showed quantities of oil still escaping into the sea.”
“BP said it would need 12-24 hours of readings to determine whether or not the cap was working because of the uneven flow of oil and gas from the leak.”
“Chief operating officer Doug Suttles said on Friday: "There is flow coming up the pipe. Just now, I don't know the exact rate."”
“BP has said it does not expect to be able to fully halt the oil flow until August, when two relief wells will be completed.”
“"The target is for all six of us to be here for 520 days,"”
“space experts already believe the first flight could be just 25 years away or even less if there is the political and economic will from countries with advanced space programmes.”
“The six "astronauts" wearing bright blue jump-suits and even surgical masks, were paraded before banks of television cameras and hordes of journalists at a news conference before entering their mock spaceship.”
“until November 2011.”
“The six "astronauts" wearing bright blue jump-suits...”
“The facility contains living quarters, a gym and sauna”
“He said that the rocks, which are about 25% carbonate by weight, contain about 10 times more carbonate than had previously been detected in the planet's rocks.”
“Nasa's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit detected the carbonate-rich rocks in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater. This was in 2005, but Martian dust had partially blinded one of the rover's instruments, clouding the data.”
“[But this time] we're seeing a couple of large outcrops of rock poking through the soil of the Columbia Hills.”
“BP could know within the next 12 to 24 hours if the capping effort would succeed.”
“a detailed computer modelling study indicated that oil from the spill might extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer.”
“once oil entered the "Loop Current", part of the Gulf Stream which sweeps around the Florida panhandle, it would be only weeks before it reached Florida's Atlantic shores.”
“On Wednesday, BP said it would pay for the construction of six sand barriers off the coast of the US state of Louisiana.”
“The EU is more than halfway to its target of cutting emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020, a report shows.”
“The assessment by the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals that emissions across the 27-nation bloc fell to 11.3% during 2008.”
“Data shows that greenhouse gas emissions fell by 99 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) during 2008, making a total net reduction of 627m tonnes of CO2e from 1990 levels.”
“The countries - which include the UK, France, Spain and Germany - recorded a 76m-tonne CO2e reduction, taking emissions to 6.9% below 1990 levels.”
“The 15 nations that made up the EU before it expanded to 27 countries are obliged under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce emissions by 8% between 2008-2012 from 1990 levels.”
“"The greenhouse gas inventory shows that the EU is well on track to meet its emission reduction targets," said EEA executive director Professor Jacqueline McGlade.”
“"Although we are expecting an even sharper decline in 2009, caused mainly by the recession, we need to ensure that the downward trend in emissions continues and that Europe boosts its climate investments."”
“The assessment also showed that emissions from international aviation and maritime transport fell for the first time since 1992.”
“Overall, total emissions in the 27-nation bloc have been falling since 2003.”
“Europe's new Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard recently published a paper that set out the arguments why the EU should commit itself to a unilateral cut of 30% by 2020.”
“Currently, EU policy is to adopt the 30% goal only if other major emitters, such as the US and Japan, agree to make similar reductions.”
“"But like a lot of NGOs across Europe, we would be much happier to see 40% targets under discussion," he told BBC News.”
“"A huge slice of the 11.3% reduction was achieved long before the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) got underway," he told BBC News.”
