Tag: England
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Former landfill transformed into a nature reserve opens in the UK
"What you have done here...is a monument to what can be done to restore nature."
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England Decides Not to Sell Off Public Forests
The government of England has decided that it won't sell 15% of the public forests after all, opting instead to create a more independent trust to manage those forests for future generations.
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Conservative Politician Blasts Outdated, Carbon-Intensive Energy Policy
Fighting climate change and modernizing our energy grid shouldn't be a partisan issue. At least one conservative recognizes that.
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The Boat Project is a Sail Boat Made from Wooden Memories
It's Olympic art--a boat that was made from donated wooden items and was sailed along the coast of England.
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Britain's Ash Trees Threatened by Disease
Britain's ash trees are under threat from a new, quickly spreading, disease.
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British Drought Turns into Massive Rainfall
The sale of umbrellas in Britain has jumped by 2,850%--in the middle of a drought.
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With London Monuments, Artist Shows Just How High Sea Levels Will be in 3012
Help! This is what rising oceans, due to climate change, will make London look like. Send lifeboats.
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UK Extends Tax Credit for Electric Vehicle to 2015
This will help private citizens and commercial fleet operators make the transition to cleaner electric vehicles.
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First Views of New Green Living Wall on London Tube Station
Installed by Biotecture, the vertical garden covers one side of the Edgware Road Tube station.
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Controversy Amongst England's Royals: Prince Philip Says Wind Farms are Useless
Looks like England's Royals need some family therapy.
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Fracking Firm Admits It Caused Earthquakes in England
A UK fracking firm has confirmed that its operations were behind small earthquakes this Spring, but insists there is no cause for alarm.
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The Week in Animal News: Melting Zombie Caterpillars, Self-Cloning Jellyfish, and More (Slideshow)
Scientists have made some startling discoveries in the animal world this week -- from a virus that causes caterpillars to turn into melting zombies to a lonely jellyfish that has produced hundreds of clones of itself.
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Awesome Birdhouse Tricks Drivers Into Slowing Down
If building a house for local birds is awesome, and getting motorists to drive safer is awesome, too, then retiree Ian Magee may have single-handedly invented one of the awesomest things ever. Faced with a steady stream of
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Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists' Emails?
The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling
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UK Billionaire Pushes Arctic "Mega" Mine: Caribou, Whale & Seal Deaths Expected, "Habitat Will Be Lost"
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, is pushing to open an opencast iron ore "mega-mine" inside the Arctic Circle that will include a 150-kilometer railway and two new ports that will bring a ship in every 32
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A 1955 British Cycling Film Shows the Joys of Countryside Touring
TreeHugger does a lot of work to promote urban cycling, a major step towards developing sustainable cities. But lest we forget how great a day in the countryside on two wheels can be, this short film from 1955 is the
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British University Experiments With Online 'Shaming' of Non-Recyclers: Does It Work? Is It a Good Idea?
If all your friends and peers could see what you were chucking into the trash, would you recycle more? Early reports from a dormitory experiment at England's Newcastle University
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Exposed Memo Reveals Definite Ties Between Big Oil and Iraq Invasion
The notion that the Iraq war was really about oil is far beyond speculation -- it floats somewhere in that ambiguous realm between generally accepted and assumed-to-be-fact. So the breaking news that a newly exposed secret memo
