Day: 11 August 2005

Nine winners for £60,000 house challenge

Nine consortia have been named as winners in the bid to design high quality homes for a construction cost of around £60,000.

Government: sustainable forestry keeps on growing

Changes to two timber certification schemes will provide stronger assurance that wood is coming from sustainable sources.

Nuclear clean-up to cost extra £8bn

The cost of decommissioning the UK's ageing nuclear power stations is set to soar by £8 billion.

Monsanto’s weedkiller deadly to frogs and tadpoles alike

Monsanto's 'Roundup' herbicide - its best selling weedkiller - has been found to be deadly to frogs and tadpoles even at relatively low levels.

US insurers wake up to climate change

Cynics might say America is still in denial of climate change and, until recently, insurers on both sides of the Atlantic have mirrored the positions of their governments.

Carbon storage projects useless against global warming

Projects to offset carbon emissions such as forest planting could prove utterly futile in the fight against global warming.

Bog unleashes giant methane cloud

The thawing of the world's largest peat bog will release billions of tons of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and scientists believe little can be done to stop it.

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