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Sunday 20 January 2008

Earth Your planet, your home

Lions playfight: Carnivores released into wild will fail and die

Carnivores released into wild 'fail and die'

Captive-bred animals are too trusting of humans and some will starve to death after release because they did not know how to hunt and fend for themselves properly, research finds.

Threat to medicines from plant extinctions | Biofuel crops 'will harm the planet'

Jungle webcam to offer South American view | Activists freed by Japanese whaling ship

Texas is world's seventh biggest polluter

Texas 7th polluter

SUV-loving US state Texas has been named as the world's seventh biggest polluter.

North Sea gets warmer

Hunting 'mimics nature'

The Crown of Throns starfish eats the coral polyp flesh leaving behind the calcium carbonate skeleton

Starfish reef threat

Coral reef system under threat from predatory Crown of thorns starfish.

Competition winners

New Tay salmon rules

COMMENT

GREENER LIVING

ETHICAL CONSUMER

Ask the Experts - Ten UK
Composting guide: what works

ENERGY-SAVING LIGHTBULBS

The future's bright
All CFLs by 2009

SOLAR PANELS

Photovoltaic cash back
Solar thermal gets thumbs-up

GROUND SOURCE HEATING

Harnessing Earth's power
Nature's free energy

EARTH WATCH

New environmentalism

Climate change, say the pessimists, will destroy our world. But in an exclusive interview, acclaimed author Philip Pullman champions a new brand of environmentalism that offers us all hope.

Keeping tradition afloat

Jack Watkins hails the campaigners fighting for the public's access to the Thames.

Bird box - little egret

Colder months are perfect time to get a good look at little egrets, writes Daniel Butler.

Rough with the smooth

Robin Page is thrilled by a course that is championing eco-friendly golf.

Utterly monkey

Elizabeth Grice on Jez Hermer, a key figure in global primate conservation.

CONSERVATION

Rise in illegal hare coursing

Illegal hare coursing is on the rise, according to police.

Oaks dying from disease

Oak faces battle for survival as disease devestates forests.

Dragonfly 'climate indicator'

Dragonfly should be climate change indicator, experts say.

RSPB criticised over shooting

RSPB has allowed wildfowlers to shoot birds on a reserve.

EARTH PULSE

The Pulse tracks what's hot in global coverage of green issues, displays the number of stories published in each area and ranks by percentage weekly change.

EARTH GALLERIES

First day of Salmon fishing on the River Tay

Tay salmon fishing

Polar bear cub danger

Orang utans - a study

Coral reefs threat

The human impact

Earth galleries index