News Links

1. Climate Ark
• URL: http://climateark.org/
• Description: Climate change and global warming portal and search engine.

1. Climatewire
• URL: http://www.climatewire.org
• Description: Climate change information service, with searchable clippings from around the globe on causes and impacts of climate change. You can sign up to a daily email update.

1. International Polar Year
• URL: http://www.ipy.org/
• Description: Two hundred scientific projects will be focussed on the Arctic and Antartic, in the fourth 'international polar year' of the International Council for Science and the World Meteorological Organisation. This site gives you access to information about our Polar regions, about their ice, atmosphere, peoples and oceans.. and lets you monitor what is going on with the scientific projects.

1. IPCC AR4 Working Group III release May 4 2007
• URL: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf
• Description: The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III, of the fourth assessment report have been released, 4/5/07, from Bangkok, Thailand. Working Group III has focussed on the potential for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions as a global community, in the short and medium term to 2030, and over the longer term beyond 2030.

1. Met Office confirms UKs hottest April
• URL: http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2494241.ece
• Description: Met Office confirms that Britain has just experienced her hottest April since records began in 1659. Read about this in the news.

1. Met Office official confirmation of April record
• URL: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070502.html
• Description: Met Office confirms that Britain has just experienced her hottest April since records began in 1659. Read about this from the Met office.

1. Plastic bags banned in Modbury, Devon
• URL: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1717476.ece
• Description: Plastic bags have disappeared in Modbury, Devon, in the UK's first ban, coordinated by marine photographer Rebecca Hosking. This is causing lots of interest around the UK. Could an Oxfordshire village follow in their footsteps? The article contains some quite shocking facts about plastic and its effects on marine life. Did you know for example that 100 million tonnes of plastic litters the seas, devastating wildlife and entering food chains. Read the whole article here. We also have this as a scanned newspaper- contact us if you'd like a copy.

1. RSPB Species Guide
• URL: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/a/index.asp
• Description: If you aren't sure what a swift looks like, or what the difference is between a swallow and a house martin, you can look at the excellent guide by the RSPB, where you can search by bird name etc and find out all about what they look like, where they have come from, what they feed on, how they are threatened and much more.

1. Springwatch.. observing nature
• URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/wildbritain/springwatch/
• Description: If you want to send your recordings and observations of nature to help a national assessment of Britain's ecology, you can send them to Springwatch, a BBC programme.

1. Transition Towns
• URL: http://www.transitiontowns.org/
• Description: Transition towns is a growing movement in the UK, of towns, village and areas that are making the transition towards a future without dependence on oil. Read exciting and inspiring stories, and get all the news here.

1. Transition towns moving in Wales
• URL: http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/Library?OpenForm&Cat=_Press_Releases_2007
• Description: Transition towns is a growing movement in the UK, of towns, village and areas that are making the transition towards a future without dependence on oil. Some really exciting developments have taken place in Wales recently, with unanimous political support across all the parties. Read the press release about these developments from the Soil Association.