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- Cement can cut 90 per cent of emissions
The global cement industry can avoid up to 90 per cent of emissions projected according to a new WWF report. A blueprint for a climate friendly cement industry says that the highly energy intensive industry, responsible for 8 per cent of global emissions, has the tools available to reduce its carbon footprint while continuing its forecast growth...
- Imitation is not just flattery for Amazon butterfly species
Many studies of evolution focus on the benefits to the individual of competing successfully - those who survive produce the most offspring, in Darwin's classic 'survival of the fittest.' But how does this translate to the evolution of species? A new paper, published in this week's issue of PLoS Biology, studies an aspect of the natural world that, like survival of the fittest individual, is explained by natural selection: namely, mutualism - an interaction between species that has benefits for both...
- WWF Travel Helper makes it easy to count and cut your CO2
WWF and Swiss firm routeRANK have launched an online European travel planner designed to help fight climate change. The WWF Travel Planner will give users information on travel times and connections, but will also reveal the carbon footprint of each option...
- Pacific tuna face risky fisheries meeting
Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific also face collapse if a forthcoming management meeting doesn't dramatically change the way they are harvested, WWF warned today...
- African governments commit to protect gorillas
The first meeting of the Parties of the Gorilla Agreement, to be held in Rome tomorrow, is expected to come up with practical proposals to further gorilla conservation work in Africa...
- Sea levels set to rise faster than expected
Even warming of less than 2 C might be enough to trigger the loss of Arctic sea ice and the meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet, causing global sea levels to rise by several metres...
- Southern Ocean resistant to changing winds
Intensifying winds in the Southern Ocean have had little influence on the strength of the Southern Ocean circulation and therefore its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a study published yesterday in Nature Geoscience...
- Tuna commission comes up with 'a disgrace, not a decision'
The commission tasked with preventing a collapse of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery today opted for catch quotas still far higher than its own scientists recommend and leaving industrial fleets free to scoop up tuna at the height of its spawning period...
- Indigenous values guide northern waters research
The value of rivers and wild food resources to Australia's indigenous people is the focus of new research that will help transform water management in northern Australia...
- Greek PM inundated with e-cards for climate action
More than 3,000 Greek citizens have responded to a WWF call over the past four days by sending their Prime Minister, Kostas Karamanlis, a WWF e-card asking him to take an active part in the global efforts to fight climate change...
- Thousands join bluefin tuna boycott
Close to 16,000 citizens from 149 countries have signed up to join numerous restaurants, retailers and chefs in boycotting Mediterranean bluefin tuna - until stocks have recovered and the fishery is properly controlled and managed...
- Urban trees enhance water infiltration
Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on regulating the flow of runoff to waterways, but generally does little to restore the hydrologic cycle disrupted by extensive pavement and compacted urban soils with low permeability...
- Signs of Amur tiger in China give hope for struggling species
The discovery of Amur tiger tracks in Changbaishan in north-eastern China has given conservationists hope for a species that is rarely seen in that area...
- Humans and elephants on collision course in South Asia
Massive international investment in large-scale infrastructure projects in southern Asia will increase human-elephant conflict and cause more deaths on both sides unless much greater care is taken...
- Europe sits on damning bluefin tuna report
A European fisheries report demonstrating continuing widespread infringements by bluefin tuna fleets despite increased fleet surveillance in the Mediterranean has been delayed until after the conclusion of next week's key international tuna commission meeting to decide on a new management regime for the fishery...
- European Union's ideas for energy looking tired
A coherent plan to reduce energy consumption was conspicuous by its absence from the European Union's latest attempt to deal with the energy and climate crisis...
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