A shortage of bears’ traditional food near the Arctic Circle has forced the animals to eat human corpses, say locals By Luke Harding in Moscow, www.guardian.co.ukTuesday 26 October 2010 15.32 BST From a distance it resembled a rather large man in a fur coat, leaning tenderly over the grave of a loved one. But when […]
Caption by Michon Scott12 October 2010 On October 4, 2010, an accident occurred at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina (aluminum oxide) plant in western Hungary. A corner wall of a waste-retaining pond broke, releasing a torrent of toxic red sludge down a local stream. Several nearby towns were inundated, including Kolontar and Devecser, where the sludge […]
By Staff WritersBudapest (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 The entire ecosystem of a small river in Hungary which is situated in the area affected by a deadly toxic mud spill, has been destroyed, a disaster relief chief said Thursday. “The entire ecosystem of the Marcal river has been destroyed, because the very high alkaline levels have […]
29 Sept 2010 Protestors across Europe have taken to the streets to demonstrate against austerity measures imposed by governments as a result of the debt crisis and recession. Governments are planning measures that include public pay freezes, tax raises, increases in retirement age and possible pension cuts. In 13 European capital cities, general strikes and […]
BBC29 September 2010 Tens of thousands of people from around Europe have marched across Brussels in a protest against spending cuts by some EU governments. Spain has held a general strike, with protesters in Barcelona clashing with police and torching a police car. Other protests against austerity measures have been held in Greece, Italy, the […]
Bergen, 24th September 2010. Ministers attending today’s North East Atlantic Environment Summit in Bergen, Norway have failed to take marine environmental issues seriously and have signed an unambitious ”Declaration of Delay”, ignoring a whole raft of urgent issues that demand action from them NOW, rather than vague commitments to do something in the future. […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentTue Sep 14, 2010 9:48am EDT JUVFONNA, Norway (Reuters) – Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings’ ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe’s highest mountains. “It’s like a time machine…the ice has not been this small for many, many centuries,” […]
By James Corcut Friday, 3 September 2010 Europe’s rarest seabird, the Zino’s Petrel, found only in Madeira, has suffered potentially devastating losses from a forest fire which struck the birds’ breeding area on the Atlantic island. The fire on Madeira’s central mountain massif killed 25 chicks – 65 per cent of this year’s young […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2010) — An international group of researchers led by the Peninsula Medical School and the University of Exeter have for the first time identified changes in sex hormones associated with exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) in men, in a large population study. The study results are published in the latest issue […]
By VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN, Associated Press WriterAugust 20, 2010 (AP) — It was a big shot. A big hog. And a big disappointment. When Georg van Bebber hauled back his wild boar from Ebersberg forest near Munich after a day of hunting, he was exhilarated about his impressive prey. But before he could take it home, […]
