Conservation & Environment News - Week 01/04/08 - 07/04/08

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Plastic-Bag Bans Gaining Momentum Around the World - National Geographic 04/04/08

From Australia to the U.K., and all across the U.S., politicians and corporations are pondering banning or taxing plastic bags.

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Summer 2007 Floods: A Very Singular Event - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 01/04/08

A new scientific study of the wet summer of 2007 confirms that the floods were a very singular event and does not support the idea that the exceptional river flooding was linked to climate change. This conclusion is contained within a comprehensive hydrological appraisal of the summer 2007 floods carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

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Quantifying threats to ecosystems - ZSL London Zoo News 01/04/08

The world’s ecosystems and their species are increasingly coming under threat due to human activity.

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E-Day: A good use of energy? - BBC News 07/04/08

Recently the UK saw its first Energy Saving Day, or E-Day - an attempt to involve people in reducing the nation's energy use and carbon emissions. In the end, no savings resulted; and in the Green Room this week, its architect Matt Prescott looks back and asks "was it worth the effort?"

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WHO Must Pressure Governments To Act On Climate Change, UK - Medical News Today 04/04/08

The World Health Organization (WHO) must exert all of its power and influence to make sure governments take action on the critical issue of climate change, the UK's leading public health organisations have urged.