Russian Arctic ice camp in rapid shrink
>>Source: BBC
Twenty Russian scientists are to be evacuated from their camp on a drifting ice-floe in the Arctic after it started disintegrating sooner than expected.
Kenya court halts $370m sugar, biofuels project
>>Source: Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters): A Kenyan court has temporarily halted a $370m sugar and biofuels project in a coastal wetland that conservation groups warned would threaten wildlife and local livelihoods.
Rare butterfly re-appears on devasted UK heathland
>>Source: Daily Telegraph
A rare and beautiful butterfly has re-emerged phoenix-like from the ashes of a devastating heathland fire. The silver studded blue butterfly has made a remarkable comeback following the blaze at a Surrey nature reserve two years ago.
Giant vacuum cleaner leaves reefs thriving
>>Source: New Scientist
It sounds like a harebrained idea from some whacky movie: Seaweed overgrowing the reefs? Why not just suck it up with a vacuum? But a team in Hawaii is using a device dubbed the Super Sucker to do just that.
Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists
>>Source: Environmental News Network
PARIS (AFP): New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
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