English country gardens under attack from global warming
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The UK's legion of gardening fanatics have been warned to get ready for global warming which threatens to spoil the traditional English country garden.
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Science & environment: Government apathy sabotages Britain's shift to a low-carbon economy
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The UK is developing a strategy to adapt to climate change, not just to try to avert it.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It has always been known for its loving care of some of Britain's greatest estates and now its not just gardens that the National Trust wants to keep green.
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Climate change could drive many wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut into extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes necessary to help these food crops fight pests and drought, an international research group reported.
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CRAGs, or Carbon Rationing Action Groups are slowly springing up across Britain, with about 160 people active in some 20 groups, low-carbon living trends are growing.
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The rise in new homes built in gardens is increasing the risk of further flooding, an independent reviewer warns.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Professor Martin Parry, of the Met Office, says that even if governments take action against global warming now, it will take decades to take effect.
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For centuries, Europe's monuments have withstood earthquakes, fire and plundering. Now cultural treasures from the Colosseum to Westminster Abbey could face new threats from climate change, a study says.
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Warmer-than-usual winters are stoking fears for the survival of New Englandâs maple forests.
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Vegetation thrives on moisture and when you add an increase of nitrogen and complements of lightning, the greenery gets even greener. The May issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports poison ivy is expected to get a lot itchier because of global warming.
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Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press.
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Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air &#151; those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday. They urged governments and citizens to take steps now to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming.
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By LOVELL-SMITH Mary  Canterbury's rural firefighters are calling on residents to clean up their gardens after the cool, wet spring, which, says spokesman Tony Teeling, has resulted in excessive vegetation growth and significantly increasing fire risk.
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By CAROLINE INNES  MORE than 400 Haydock residents gathered to protest against proposals for a recycling plant on green belt land earmarked to become a country park.
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Climate change is warming Britain's waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating storms and floods, the government said in a report published Wednesday.