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Sea turtles in the Caribbean are perilously close to extinction because of over-fishing and over-development, an official report has discovered. The collapse of turtle numbers on some of the Caribbean's most famous and glamorous islands has been so severe that in Bermuda turtles no longer breed any more. In the Cayman Islands, the idyllic archipelago that once supported millions of turtles, biologists fear the hawksbill turtle is locally extinct.
Environment	The Independent On Sunday – 28th November 2004



It has been invisible, so it has gone largely unheeded, but the wrecking of the seas is now the world's gravest environmental problem after climate change, British scientists said yesterday. Such destruction has been caused by over-fishing in the marine environment and only massive protected zones, where all fishing is banned, will allow the seas damaged areas to recover, members of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution said. These non-fishing reserves should cover fully 30% of UK territorial waters, the commission suggested, in the most drastic call ever made to scale back fishing in Britain or Europe. The proposals were welcomed by environmentalists, but attacked by some fishing industry groups, who said they would threaten yet more livelihoods and that recovery measures have already been taken.
Environment	The Independent – 8th December 2004



Scientists fear that global warming has led to a dramatic decline in stocks of krill, which is a key food for Antarctic seals, whales and penguins. New data shows krill numbers have fallen by about 80% since the 1970's..Statistical examination suggests the reason for the decline is a reduction in the amount of winter sea ice in an area northeast of the Antarctic peninsula - just below the southern tip of South America - where the krill population is concentrated. Krill feed on algae found on the ice: without it they starve. And it is that area which has displayed a strong warming trend over the past 50 years.
Environment	The Independent – 4th November 2004



Much of the nations heritage remains in a perilous state, according to a report out today. The report, published by English Heritage, makes available for the first time details of more than 17,000 listed buildings at risk.
Environment	The Sentinel – 15th December 2004



Global warming could mean last year's record breaking European heat-wave is seen as "unusually cool" in the future. A report from the Met office says man-made climate change has already doubled the risk of such heat-waves.
Environment	The Sentinel – 16th December 2004



More than one in 10 of all bird species are likely to be extinct by the end of the century. Another 15% could be on the brink of disappearing before the year 2100, according to a study by American researchers.
Environment	The Sentinel – 14th December 2004



Britains multi-storey car parks are "badly designed decaying monoliths", a report claims. In the event of a collapse of a multi-storey, "it is unclear who would be at fault", said Chemistry and Industry magazine. There are still no UK regulations, the magazine claimed.
Environment	The Sentinel – 6th December 2004



Polar bears, the biggest land carnivores on earth, face extinction this century if the Arctic continues to melt at its present rate, a study into global warming has found. Scientists in the study believe the survival of the estimated 22,000 polar bears in the region is hanging by a thread as they suffer the double whammy of chemical pollution and dwindling feeding territories.
Environment	The Independent - 11th November 2004



Only last month, Tony Blair expressed anxiety that global warming's dire effects would arrive not just in his children's lifetime, but in his own, and would "radically alter human existence"..The possibility that it may be occurring now is suggested in the long run of atmospheric C02 measurements that have been made since 1958 at the observatory on the top of Mauna Loa, an 11,000ft volcano in Hawaii, by the American physicist Charles Keeling, from the University of California at San Diego. When he began, Dr Keeling found the amount of the gas present in the atmosphere to be 315 parts per million by volume. Today, the figure stands at 376ppm..Across all 46 years of Dr Keeling's measurements, the average annual C02 rise as been 1.3ppm, although in recent decades it has gone up to about 1.6ppm.
Environment	The Independent – 11 October 2004



Travelling in traffic, either in a car or on public transport, almost trebles the risk of a heart attack for at least an hour afterwards, a study has found. Fumes from car exhausts, noise and stress brought on by traffic congestion are likely to be the main causes of the increase in risk, researchers say. Air pollution is known to be a factor in heart disease, which develops over decades, and research has shown that people living close to a main road have twice the risk of dying from the condition.
Environment	The Independent – 21 October 2004



Just 2% of Kenyas original tree cover remains. Four-fifths of the continent's productive land threatens to turn to desert.
Environment	The Independent on Sunday – 10 October 2004



A global study revealed yesterday that almost a third of amphibians face extinction - and pollution is cited as the biggest cause. The 3 year survey, involving 500 scientists form more than 60 countries, has found that a third of the 5,743 known species on the planet are threatened with being wiped out and at least 427 are so critically endangered that they could disappear tomorrow. The figures in the survey are almost certainly underestimates because more than 22% of the known amphibian species are too poorly understood for the researchers to reach a reliable conclusion about what is happening to them. Populations of more than half of the known amphibian species are in decline. While 32% of birds and 23% of mammals are in the same position. The latest study estimates that up to 122 species have gone extinct since 1980.
Environment	The Independent – 15 October 2004



Millions of people work within walking distance of their home, exploding the myth that everyone is mobile, according to a new report today. Around 10 million Britons work less than three miles from where they live, research for the Work Foundation found.
Environment	The Sentinel – 14 October 2004



More than 80% of the UK's population growth over the next 30 years will be fuelled by new migrants and their children, according to official figures.
Environment	Evangelical Times – November 2004



Gwent police force spent only 54% of its time on the frontline according to a Home Office Study. The force which spent the most was Bedfordshire with 70% or 60% without the paperwork.
Environment	The Independent - 23rd September 2004

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