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Award for green farming
The search is on for England's Farmer of the Year. This brand-new competition will award the farmer who is not only top of their field in farm management, but also in conservation and taking care of the environment.
Two top Vatican Radio officials convicted of polluting environment
Two top officials at Vatican Radio were convicted of polluting the environment with electromagnetic waves from radio broadcasting towers in a suburb north of Rome.
Sellafield leak: Piebalgs calls for EU–wide nuclear safety rules
The European Commission has renewed its call for tougher EU nuclear safety standards after the closure, due to a radioactive leak, of the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield in the UK. Nuclear safety is curren...
Transport and households set to put dent in UK climate efforts
Unless new policies are adopted, CO2 emissions cuts from the power generation sector in the UK will be offset in 2010 by continued growth in energy consumption from transport and households, Cambridge Econometrics have w...
New international law for ancient forest protection
Forest ministers from around the world will gather today to discuss the future of the forests at the start of the Fifth Conference of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) at the UN's headquarters in New York. Green...
FoE Call for Climate Change Action – Not Hot Air
A major United Nations seminar on climate change has been heavily criticised by Friends of the Earth International for failing to discuss the critical issue of how climate change should be tackled. Instead, the conferenc...
Sustainability summit shines light on campus environmentalism
At the second annual UC Berkeley Sustainability Summit, held last Thursday, the campus honored the green-minded among us and awarded grants to six campus units through the Chancellor's Green Campus Fund. It also unveiled...
Sustainable Development Commissioner Up for Grabs
The Sustainable Development Commission, following changes made in the recent UK SD Strategy, is seeking to recruit a new Business Commissioner.
Army officer tags environment men in illegal logging
A ranking army official based in Sultan Kudarat Province tagged on Saturday several local officials and personnel from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) as allegedly behind the renewed illegal lo...
CBI Sets Up New Waste Working Group
The CBI has set up a new working group of Members on waste strategy. The aim of the group is to produce a waste policy statement to inform the CBI's input to the review of Waste Strategy 2000.