Environment
These World Heritage sites ‘could end up underwater due to global warming’
Rising sea levels could flood cities including Venice, Rhodes and Pisa - destroying historic buildings and monuments, according to the study of the Mediterranean
Drivers can pay for parking with plastic bottles
Thrifty motorists are celebrating after hearing they can pay for parking with old plastic bottles.
Nature will need three to five million years to recover from man-made extinctions
Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so fast that nature's built-in defence mechanism evolution can't keep up
Beer drought looms because of global warming
Brewing could slump and price of pint double in as heatwaves become more common
Rare swift spotted for first time in UK
The white-rumped swift was seen yesterday evening (sun) at Hornsea Mere in East Riding
Acidic seas caused by global warming are threatening the survival of sea life
Corrosive seawater is making calcium protective shells and skeletons thinner and less dense
Fracking for shale gas can go ahead for first time in the UK today
Energy firm Cuadrilla welcomed the judgement and said it will start the hydraulic fracturing process on the two horizontal wells it has drilled on its site in Lancashire.
Early warning system detects changes to Earth’s magnetic field before earthquakes & tsunamis strike
Deep neural networks (DNN) based on the human brain detects magnetic field anomalies that precede the natural disasters
Researchers warn of true environmental cost of weed-free lawns
What is more, plastic lawns arguably reduce overall sustainability by destroying habitats, decreasing soil organisms, polluting runoff water