Green news roundup: Wind power, ash dieback and wildlife invaders
The week’s top environment news stories and green events
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Environment news
• Ed Davey slaps down new Tory minister over ‘enough is enough’ windfarm remarks
• UK forests ‘under unprecedented threat from disease’
• Hitachi energises future of low-carbon power in the UK
• Plan to merge British Antarctic Survey comes under fire
• Developing nations’ fishing grounds should be protected, UN says
• Long-billed vulture numbers recover in Pakistan after diclofenac ban
• Climate activists occupy West Burton gas power station
On the blogs
• Can the UK stop building windfarms and hit renewable targets? | Duncan Clark
• John Hayes’s wind power warning is clever spin or national betrayal
• Nuclear sale overshadows crucial carbon capture development
• Why governments must pick the right energy policy ‘winners’
• Ash disease: an open letter to Hilary Benn and Caroline Spelman
Multimedia
• Giant pandas return home after earthquake – video
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Urban wildlife ‘invaders’ – in pictures
• Sir David Attenborough: ‘Climate change dangers worse than we thought’ – video
Features
• The ash tree crisis: a disaster in the making
• Ash dieback Q&A
• Exotic army of invading wildlife changing the nature of UK cities
• 10 things you should never flush down your toilet
Best of the web
• Poland accused of creating ‘climate of fear’ for environmental campaigners
• Solar islands floated as clean energy source for crowded continents
• Ikea unveils plans to use 100% clean energy by 2020
Green jobs
• Sustainability Manager, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, £35,938 – £45,436 per annum
• Development Manager, Thames Chase Trust, Upminster, part time up to £35,000. Potential for self employment
• Project Officer Opportunities, Hampshire County Council, Winchester, £23,343 – £33,648 per annum
… And finally
• Bad weather hits British honey production
Wet, cold summer saw honey yields from hives fall by almost three-quarters, the British Beekeepers Association says
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