It’s an interesting thought but bird feeders appear to have affected the evolution of some birds. Researchers at Oxford University discovered that the beaks of British tits had changed over a relatively short time. They have put this down to the effect of feeders. Evolution …
The question is whether big business salmon farmers with high levels of production in the Scottish lochs are damaging the marine environment.
On the basis that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, 22 experts on the great ice sheets concluded that sea levels could rise by more than 2 m by 2100. If this happened the homes of almost 200 million people worldwide would be flooded. In …
The invasiveness and the all-pervading destruction of the human is made shockingly apparent in finding a plastic object, perhaps a plastic bag, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which at 10,928 metres down is the deepest part of all the oceans on the planet. …
Jeff Bezos is the founder and chief executive of Amazon and he also happens to be the world’s richest man despite his divorce settlement. For good measure, he’s been accused of being a hypocrite because he preaches the protection of the planet and that Earth …
Conservationists are delighted because sea eagles are thriving after being reintroduced in Scotland more than 40 years ago. Sheep farmers have the opposite viewpoint as they are concerned about their impact on livestock. A photograph emerged showing a sea eagle flying off with a lamb …
Russian hunters in the Russian Arctic are shooting Britain’s smallest swan; the Bewick’s swan. Their numbers have declined by about 33% since 1995. Around 2,000 birds winter in Britain. Julia Newth of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust said that they had x-rayed live birds and …
Wildlife can be better protected in places where it is controlled by indigenous people. Regrettably, wealthy individuals and big business expels these people from their land to create plantations and mines. With the global population having doubled to 7.6 billion since 1970 and with a …
Canadians are involved in a vicious cycle of killing. They are shooting wolves from helicopters in order to protect mountain caribou herds which are on the brink of extinction because of human activities. Mad or what? When you investigate why the caribou is on the …
