Conservation & Environment News - Week 23/10/07 - 29/10/07

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UK cities' green ratings compared - BBC News 23/10/07

Changing the habits of people in the UK's cities is the best way to battle climate change, WWF has reported.

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Can the UK cope with more people? - BBC News 23/10/07

Migration, along with improved life expectancy and fertility levels, are apparently fuelling a British population boom.

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Climate threat to biodiversity - BBC News 24/10/07

Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries could trigger a mass extinction, UK scientists have warned.

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Natural decline 'hurting lives' - BBC News 25/10/07

Continuing destruction of the natural world is affecting the health, wealth and well-being of people around the globe, according to a major UN report.

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Humans failing the sustainability audit - BBC News 25/10/07

With its Geo-4 report, the United Nations tells us that most aspects of the Earth's natural environment are in decline; and that the decline will affect us, the planet's human inhabitants, in some pretty important ways.

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Keeping the peace - Green Futures 26/10/07

Countryside needs more protection from urban sprawl, show new maps

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Pure and simple? - Green Futures 26/10/07

Soil Association takes complex stand on air freighted organics

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Benn pledges tougher climate bill - BBC News 29/10/07

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn says he is putting forward a tougher, more effective and more transparent bill to help tackle climate change.

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Waterways 'have the golden touch' - BBC News 29/10/07

The organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games need to use London's waterways if they are to meet their promise of staging the greenest games in history, says Amy Reed. In this week's Green Room, she sets out the arguments for why moving freight by water is the most environmentally friendly mode of transport.

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Outrage i wake of badger cull - RSPCA Online - 26/10/07

The RSPCA is echoing the anger and dismay of top scientists provoked by a government advisor's call for a badger cull to reduce bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle.