Environment
Residents clear rubbish piled up across Birmingham after bins not collected for FIVE weeks
Residents and agency staff are digging in to clear mountains of rubbish which has been piling up on the streets of Birmingham for five weeks - after a strike by binmen. Dozens of fed-up homeowners in the Sparkhill area of the city have not had their refuse collected while binmen take industrial action over possible job cuts. The strike started on June 30 after Birmingham City Council announced restructuring plans, which trade union Unite claim will threaten the jobs of...
Osprey catches double fish supper from a lake in fascinating images & video
Plunging into a Scottish loch, this majestic osprey emerges triumphant with a DOUBLE FISH SUPPER. Spectacular pictures capture the moment the majestic bird of prey folds its wings and plunges down into the water. The osprey then snapped up two massive trout -- but didn't managed to hold on to them for long. The incident was documented by amateur photographer Mark Chrimes who was on a holiday in Scotland with his friends The 51-year-old, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has taken...
Protesters are fighting plans to build houses on London’s oldest allotments, dating back to pre-Victorian days
Green fingered protesters are fighting plans to build houses on London's oldest allotments, dating back to pre-Victorian days. Northfields Allotments, founded in 1832, faces a threat from plans to build a multi-storey social housing block and private apartments on the site. The site in Ealing, west London, consisting of 141 plots and with more than 70 people on the waiting list, would lose five per cent of its land if plans by Pathways Housing Charity are approved. During the 1970s...
Sickening footage shows a chicken producer which supplies Asda, Lidl and Nando’s allegedly breaching animal cruelty laws
This sickening footage shows a chicken producer which supplies Asda, Lidl and Nando's allegedly breaching animal cruelty laws. Secret filming at Cambria Farm in Taunton, Somerset, claims to show a worker dumping a live chick in a wheelbarrow full of dead birds. The chick was left for an hour before the same worker returns and snaps its neck, according to vegan campaign group Animal Equality. Dead chickens in a container at Cambria Farm in Taunton, Somerset. This sickening footage shows...
British caterpillars are being infected with a ‘zombie virus’ which causes them to march towards the sun…before EXPLODING
British caterpillars are being infected with a 'zombie virus' which causes them to march towards the sun - before EXPLODING. The 'baculovirus' changes the caterpillar's instincts to hide away from sunlight and forces them climb to the tops of plants. Their bodies are then liquefied - causing them to burst and spread the bug to other insects. The popped remains of several Oak Eggar moth caterpillars - a common variety in the UK and Europe - have been spotted across...
Earth to be 4.9C warmer by 2100 if climate change continues
The earth could get hotter by up to 4.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century - three times the target set by the 2016 Paris agreement on climate change. Experts predict global temperatures to hit 'tipping point' by 2100 as the Earth has a nine in ten chance of getting between 2 and 4.9 degrees C hotter. This extra temperature will herald longer heatwaves, greater droughts and, in the tropics, reduced crop yield and threaten all coral reefs....
Air pollution kill an extra 260,000 by the end of the century if climate change goes untackled
Air pollution kill an extra 260,000 by the end of the century if climate change goes untackled, a study warned. Global warming will alter the concentrations of air pollutants causing the premature deaths of 60,000 by 2030 and 260,000 deaths by 2100. The smog will affect all regions except Africa. This is on top of the millions globally who die from the effects of smog from traffic, factories, power stations and dust. Scientists warn higher temperatures will speed up the...
Extremely rare bird is born at Bristol Zoo…with a face only its mother could love
An extremely rare bird has been born at a UK zoo for the first ever time -- with a face only its mother could love. The Philippine cockatoo chick, which has not yet been named, hatched last week weighing a tiny 0.207 lbs. But the chick quickly became a contender for the ugliest bird in the world with its saggy, featherless skin and crusting, undeveloped beak. It will, however, find comfort in the fact that one day he will grow...
Inventor tells how a Tory government pulled the plug on his revolutionary electric car…40 years ago
An inventor has told how a Tory government pulled the plug on his revolutionary electric car - 40 years ago. The government last week announced it wanted Britain to become free of all petrol and diesel-powered cars by 2040. But Noel Hodson, 74, said we would have been a lot further down the road if Margaret Thatcher's officials had accepted his pioneering design back in 1980. Noel and his small team developed a hybrid petrol-electric car on a Mini chassis...