Sheep pine for absent friends: official
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The Cambridge University team which discovered that sheep prefer happy, smiley people has once again pushed back the envelope of ovine understanding with the revelation that sheep cheer up when they see snaps of friends and relatives.
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By NO BYLINE  A TASKFORCE is to be set up to find ways of increasing the supply of wood to make biomass energy. Mike Russell, the environment minister, announced the move yesterday on a visit to E.ON's soon-to- open GBP 90 million plant in Lockerbie.  (c) 2007 Scotsman, The.
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A drunk moose staggering through your backyard and nibbling on apples fallen from your tree may sound like an amusing anecdote to tell your friends, but for those Swedes who each autumn come face to face with ...
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By Tomos Livingstone  With less than a week to go in Labour's deputy leadership election, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain has a narrow lead - on Facebook.
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By Blair Goldstein, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Sep. 6--Ted Harris said his dream is to preserve patches of forestland  across the state.   A recent grant awarded to the 500-Year Forest Foundation marks one of the  first steps to his long-term vision.
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By Tran, Tu-Uyen "I don't want to be a bad boyfriend - I keep calling you up but you don't want to hang out anymore," Grand Forks public works chief Todd Feland told an audience of mostly regional government officials Wednesday.
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On the Mark: Feeling isolated and lonely because youre a remote IT worker? The president of Encompass tells Mark Hall that attending a user group meeting might fix that.
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By Debra R. Gibbs, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 11--THE PROBLEM   Marilyn Schrager, of Boca Raton, contacted the South Florida Sun-Sentinel concerned about Australian pine trees growing close to power lines near Spanish River Park.
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By Dania Akkad, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Neighbors of one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the city of Monterey are concerned that the stretch of dense pine forest along Highway 1 may be replaced with a high-density development.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tom Lalley of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778-9544, tom.lalley@wwfus.org   BALI, Indonesia, Feb.
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By Lisa Gibson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 4--A new resident has made a temporary home in Grand Forks on the smiley-face water tower off Washington Street.   A male peregrine falcon has been living in a nest box on the tower since mid-April.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Jan. 30--TWIN FALLS -- The Endangered Species Act's list of vulnerable plants and animals soon will become one species shorter when wolves are pulled from the register in about a month.
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Wanted: One Bush supporter--but not for long walks on the beach, candle-lit dinners or spooning on winter mornings. [Missing Links]
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The way to soothe an anxious sheep is to show it a picture of another sheep. British scientists believe that - like humans - sheep need to see a familiar face when they are alone.
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Relatives of a south Wales man holidaying in Thailand hope for news, though he has not been in touch since Christmas Day.
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Family snaps help relieve ovine "separation anxiety"
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Getting to the Kent countryside from London is about contrast. You arrive to all the things you'd expect, such as quiet, big skies, stars that are visible at night, snowdrops in bloom and peace. However, not all is calm in my little country corner. This weekend I arrive to find that a neighbouring farmer has, without permission, placed about 500 sheep in my field to graze. The field was being left empty for Farmer B, and Farmer A, with the ruthlessness you'd more likely expect in a FTSE 100 boardroom, let his sheep into my field to feed on the lush green turf that has been accumulating.