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“The ETS is the EU's main mechanism to reduce emissions. Under the scheme, which was established in 2005, permits for emitting CO2 are distributed under a system of national allocations.”
“In the absence of a globally-binding climate deal, talk of unilaterally raising the EU 2020 target is premature.”
“Analysts at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany said a rise of at least 3C (5.4F) by 2100 was likely.”
“From 1 July a daily rate of £1.50 will be replaced by a scale running from free for Band A cars to £5.70 for those with the highest emissions.”
“A 7p charge for a plastic carrier bag is expected to be introduced in stores in Wales from spring 2011.”
“More than 400m carrier bags are used in Wales each year.”
“It could take up to 1,000 years for some bags to degrade.”
“since a similar levy was introduced in the Republic of Ireland there's been a reduction of 95.6% in the use of plastic bags”
“The 7p charge will apply to all single use carrier bags - whether made of plastic or paper.”
“while reducing the number of carrier bags would not solve all Wales' environmental problems, it would deliver an important message about the need for people to live much more sustainable lives.”
“I am confident that the Welsh public will embrace the carrier bag charge and see it as positive step towards preserving our beautiful countryside and helping Wales to reduce its carbon footprint.”
“BP says it will pay for the construction of six sand barriers off the coast of the US state of Louisiana to try to protect fragile wetlands from a huge oil slick.”
“The sandbanks will join together a chain of natural offshore islands, forming a 50-mile (80km) barrier.”
“The entire proposed barrier would run for 128 miles (206km) and require 78 million cubic metres of sand”
“At present six sections, totalling 50 miles (80km), have been approved for construction”
“the cluster contained thousands of stars with masses between a tenth of the mass and 120 times the mass of our Sun”
“We were also able to study two images of the cluster that were captured [by Hubble] a decade apart”
“Using these images, taken in 1997 and 2007, the scientists measured the precise speeds of more than 800 stars”
“this, he suggested, is because the conditions in the cluster still reflect those from the time it was formed, approximately one million years ago”
“It will take some time for the astronauts to adjust to gravity after 161 days in orbit.”
“The craft carrying Russia's Oleg Kotov, Nasa's Timothy Creamer and Japan's Soichi Noguchi landed as planned at 0325 GMT on the steppes of Kazakhstan.”
“The Soyuz-17 undocked from the station's Zvezda module at 0004 GMT.”
“Cdr Kotov and his team blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 21 December last year.”
“The 16-nation ISS has been under construction for over a decade. Cdr Kotov's expedition was the 22nd mission sent into orbit to work on the $100 bn station.”
“The Russian Soyuz spaceships will soon be the only way for astronauts to get to the ISS and back - after Nasa retires its shuttle fleet at the end of 2010.”
“Another Soyuz will take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 16 June with two US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut on board.”
“With Cdr Kotov back on Earth, Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov is now leading the station, working together with flight engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko.”
“More than 70 retailers have already signed up for the scheme.”
“A recycling scheme which has been introduced in Plymouth is expected to divert up to six tonnes of waste from landfills each week.”
“Walsall Council banned all ball games in Broadway West Playing Field when zinc, lead and cyanide were discovered at the former landfill site in 2003.”
“Mr Harris said he had ordered fresh tests to determine the current levels of contamination”
“They claimed the vast majority of carbon emissions at the new plant would still be released into the atmosphere.”
“Even if the company's plans to capture and store carbon were to work, and the scientific community is split as to whether it will ever be feasible, Ayrshire Power propose to capture only a small amount of the pollution this scheme would ca…”
“He said his Foundation for the Built Environment tried a different approach. The Prince told the Scottish Government's chief planner, Jim Mackinnon, and representatives from the country's 32 local authorities few were creating fully sustai…”
“So often it seems to me the rule books drawn up in the 1950s-60s have become less than perhaps appropriate for the situation and the challenges we now face.”
“Charles held up a scheme in east Ayrshire as an example of good planning. Knockroon, which will extend Cumnock with a mix of low-cost and other types of housing, has been awarded 'exemplar status' for its approach.”
“So often it seems to me the rule books drawn up in the 1950s-60s have become less than perhaps appropriate for the situation and the challenges we now face. Rule books, for road engineers in particular, so often mean at the end of the day …”
“The team reached their findings after collating 170,000 records for 127 gamebird species across Europe and Asia dating back over the past two centuries.”
“We found that data from the past 30 years or so has been heavily biased towards threatened species and areas of high biodiversity, such as protected areas like national parks.”
“Museum collections in the past provided good representative data, and they are the only source that really did that. Now, museums are chronically underfunded and people cannot go out and collect everything, so we need something to replace …”
“The findings have been published in the journal PLoS Biology.”
“Dr Boakes, a research associate for the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London.”
“In the future, say 50 or 100 years time, if scientists want to reconstruct a picture of our present-day biodiversity, they are not going to be able to because the data has not been recorded.”
“Limited resources and funding meant it was unlikely that professional biologists and conservationists were going to comprehensive, continuing surveys on the scale required, suggested Dr Boakes.”
“Sources of data included museum collections, literary sources such as journal entries and private letters, and ringing data.”
“It is estimated it will cost £20,000 to dig up the floral displays, remove the chemical and refill the beds.”
“But in the last month, a number of floral displays have been killed off and analysis tests have shown the banned weed killer sodium chlorate has been used.”
“The trouble is sodium chlorate is such a hazardous chemical that once it's on the ground it tends to stay in the soil for a number of years so we're wondering what to do and seeking expert advice on how to deal with the problem.”
“In 30 years of horticulture I've never come across this sort of deliberate contamination in any village or town.”
“BP hopes to contain the spill from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico within 24 hours, its chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, has said.”
“...as stock markets digested the news that the US was "prepared for the worst scenario" that the leak might not be stopped before August.”
“BP says the procedure will take all week and it does not expect that cutting the riser will allow significantly more oil to escape.”
“But government scientists suggest the procedure could release up to 20% more oil initially...”
“On Tuesday, President Barack Obama described the leak as "the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history"...”
“At least 20 million gallons (76 million litres) have now spilled into the Gulf...”
“...affecting more than 70 miles (110km) of Louisiana's coastline.”
“At the weekend, the Japanese Space Agency (Jaxa) announced that Hayabusa had successfully completed its second Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM), guiding the spacecraft to Earth's "outer rim".”
“The craft is now roughly 7,600,000km from our planet, according to Jaxa.”
“The sample capsule will return to Earth on 13 June.”
“At a distance of 40,000km from Earth, the Hayabusa "mothership" will release its sample return capsule.”
“It is due to land at the Woomera Test Facility in South Australia at around 1400 GMT.”
“Hayabusa - which means "Falcon" in Japanese - was launched from the Kagoshima Space Center in Japan on 9 May 2003.”
“It arrived at Itokawa in September 2005, returning astonishing images of the potato-shaped asteroid's jagged terrain.”
“Hayabusa made two "touchdowns" designed to collect rocks and soil for return to Earth.”
“The spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on 13 June.”
“Tests reveal the quality of water in 97% of bathing sites is sufficiently good to be classified "excellent".”
“The Environment Agency tests show a rise in the number it classifies as excellent of almost a fifth, from 76% 10 years ago to the current 97%.”
“Its annual Good Beach Guide revealed 421 of 769 UK beaches as excellent”
“33 more than 2009”
“but below the 505 rated highly in 2006.”
“Inspectors take weekly water samples at 494 sites to measure pollution levels between May and September each year.”
“A total of 14 beaches were rated "good" while one - Staithes in North Yorkshire - was given a "poor" rating”
“Protesters turned up at Kergord as contractors arrived to start work on the masts, which measure wind speed and direction.”
“Durham County Council has taken delivery of 17 trucks with "intelligent" lifting gear which can detect how full a rubbish bin is.”
“The lifting gear determines the exact power needed to lift an individual bin, resulting in a 42% fuel saving over a year, the authority claims.”
“The move will also cut carbon emissions by 37,400 tonnes a year, it is claimed.”
“The new vehicles form part a fleet of more than 80 operated by the county council.”
“The move also aims to protect eels, whose numbers have fallen by 95% since the 1980s.”
“One diseased or parasite-carrying fish introduced into another fishery can have a massive impact on that fishery.”
“Dr Lyn Evans began working at CERN as a research fellow 41 years ago”
“It took 10,000 scientists a total of 14 years to assemble the ring-shaped tunnel below the Swiss and French border.”
“At 100m underground and with a circumference of 27km, the tunnel would be an unusual working envionment for many but not for a man from the south Wales valleys.”
“The machine only recently restarted after being out of action for 14 months following an accident in September 2008.”
“Dr Lyn Evans has led the project for the last 15 years, managing a team of 2,500 scientists”
“Morecambe South has not met the required standard in the annual Good Beach Guide by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).”
“The result of the test means the resort cannot apply for the Quality Coast Award, which it held in 2009.”
“which it held in 2009”
“Lancashire's other beaches have passed the test, including Cleveleys and Bispham, which both failed last year.”
“This year 421 of the UK's 769 bathing beaches have been recommended for excellent water quality.”
“The results are a slight improvement on the 388 sites recommended in 2009.”
“The number of failures has also dropped this year to 41 from 66 failed sites in last year's guide.”
“The latest bathing water tests were conducted from May to September 2009.”
“The number of Devon and Cornwall beaches recommended by the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) Good Beach Guide has risen by 4% in a year.”
“MCS recommended 127 beaches across the South West for excellent bathing water quality out of 193 sites.”
“Fifty-six Cornish beaches and 26 Devon beaches were listed as having the highest water quality.”
“In 2009, 122 sites in the South West were recommended.”
“From 2001 there was a steady improvement which peaked in 2006 when we recommended a record 505 beaches [in England].”
“Throughout the UK, 421 (55%) of the UK's 769 bathing beaches have been recommended for excellent water quality this year.”
“Devon beaches which moved up to Recommended: Bantham, Dawlish - Coryton Cove, Plymouth Hoe - East, Salcombe - South Sands, Sandy Bay, Shaldon, Thurlstone - North and Thurlstone - South.”
“Cornwall beaches which moved up to Recommended: Crantock, Downderry, Gorran Haven - Little Perhaver, Gorran Haven - Vault Beach, Kingsand Bay, Millendreath, Pentewan Sands, Polstreath, Porthcothan.”
