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Diesel rises 10% amid panic buying of fuel by motorists, despite government assurances on supplies

Richard Reynolds explores the world of guerrilla gardeners

Government plans to recycle summer sunshine collected by Britain's roads to keep them ice-free in winter

David Adam analyses government plans to heat Britain's roads

For those hard to reach public spaces, the guerrilla gardener has a weapon: seedbombs. Richard Reynolds shows how to make them at home - and how to use them

The war on neglect of public space leads Richard Reynolds and his fellow guerrilla gardeners to the Elephant and Castle roundabout...and a run-in with the police

This week's Tread lightly pledge is to stop buying farmed flowers

Colin Luckhurst: Gloucestershire

HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- While most public health department officials in the United States take the health threat of global warming seriously, the majority say they aren't prepared to confront the problem, a new survey shows.

LiveScience.com - The evils of global warming and ozone depletion are competing problems, at least in Antarctica, the results of two new studies suggest. Schemes to pump sulfur into the atmosphere to counteract global warming might help cool the Earth, but they could also cause problems at the poles, scientists warned today. Continuous injections could drastically deplete polar ozone, delaying the recovery of the current ozone hole over Antarctica by several decades. And another study finds that if the southern ozone hole is patched, the heat would turn on in Antarctica. ...

AP - The rule of unintended consequences threatens to strike again. Some researchers have suggested that injecting sulfur compounds into the atmosphere might help ease global warming by increasing clouds and haze that would reflect sunlight.

Government insists supplies are secure but price of diesel rises 10% amid panic buying of fuel by motorists

AP - There's probably a place for desalted seawater in meeting the nation's future water needs, but research is needed to reduce the costs and impact on the environment, the National Research Council says.

Six-week-old cubs meet the public at Fuji safari park, west of Tokyo

SPACE.com - The debate over climate change and its effects is often headline news. In the near future, scientists are concerned that the Earth will experience a continuing increase in global temperature. New research is showing that even if this increase is only a few degrees, it could have important repercussions for life on our planet.

Britain's butterfly numbers are at a record low after a wet summer last year caused their numbers to crash, conservationists warn

Richard Hammond on the winners of the first ever Sustainability Award at yesterday's Enjoy England's Awards for Excellence