India may yet accept Western demands to make cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as part of its campaign for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council according to a leaked letter from its environment minister.

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Isle of Skye picture named Landscape Photograph of the Year.

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Genetically modified GM food is an essential tool to help tackle the "perfect storm" of climate change and rising population the Government's chief scientist has warned.

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Councils should be forced to put aside land for wind farms just as they currently have to do for traveller sites John Prescott has suggested.

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Can better insulation turn a cold loft room into a snug space? Sarah Lonsdale warms to the task.

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A retired engineer who was given the nickname King Canute because of his efforts to save his clifftop home from the sea has lost a legal battle to keep his tidal defences.

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A new report argues that scientists should use every method available to boost food production in the next 20 years. But what options are there other than GM?

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Genetically modified GM crops have been around for a generation but there are now new possibilities thanks to developments in understanding of the makeup of plants.

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British farmers must cultivate a new generation of genetically modified GM "supercrops" to prevent a global food crisis the UK's leading scientists have said.

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Double the number of apples sold in Britain last year were imported from abroad than grown here the latest figures show as the Government launches a new drive to get the nation eating British.

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One in four households in Britain will be pushed into fuel poverty this year because of rising energy prices according to projections from the latest Government statistics.

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Trail of debris left in space by Halley's Comet at its most intense.

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Police called to a car theft were startled to find thief was a bear.

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Campaigners fear two new nuclear power stations and five wind farms will go ahead after applications were submitted to a powerful new Government body set up to push through controversial projects.

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A Government climate change advert featuring drowning puppies and crying rabbits will be investigated by the advertising watchdog after receiving hundreds of complaints from the public.

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Moonlit image of a rare Spanish wolf wins competition.

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Vicky Liddell reports on the importance of feeding birds highenergy seeds rather than bread in the coming winter months.

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The Government has been accused of misleading the public on climate change by 'fiddling the figures' on carbon emissions and home insulation.

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As a new census of dormice begins Jack Watkins says the animal is more than just a pretty face.

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Britain faces rising sea levels floods and drought unless more is done to stop global warming according to a new map produced by the Government.

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The number of Americans who believe there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming because of pollution is at its lowest point in three years according to a survey.

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Edinburgh Zoo's polar bear Mercedes is to live in the Highlands to escape warm weather.

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Three rare white lion cubs have gone on show under the watchful eye of their mother.

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It is famed for preserving the relics of Britain's past but the National Trust has decided its own image need to be more up to date.

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In a startling new book Christopher Booker reveals how a handful of scientists who have pushed flawed theories on global warming for decades now threaten to take us back to the Dark Ages

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