Dublin based OpenHydro have installed an innovative tidal turbine at the Orkney Isles.
The turbine looks a bit like a mint with a hole in the middle! The hole allows wild life to pass through without being harmed. An OpenHydro turbine generated power for the first time in May of this year (2008).
Presenter of the BBC series 'Earth: The Climate Wars', Dr Iain Stewart will be speaking at the Turner Sims Theatre, Southampton University on October 21st.
All three main political parties have downgraded their commitment to the environment over the last year, accordng to a new report Fit for the Future by the UK's major green groups said today.
The study, which analysed the green performance of all three parties over the past year, said many politicians believed the economic downturn made action on the environment less of a priority.
Over the last year, all three main parties had "retreated from the environmental agenda", said the report, which was drawn up by a coalition including the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), Friends of the Earth, Green Alliance, Greenpeace, National Trust, RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts, Woodland Trust and WWF.
The only way out of the downturn was an ambitious climate change strategy that addressed energy, transport, and management, housing and the economy, the second annual review of the parties' performance said.
People should have at least one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, according to Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and one of the world's leading authorities on global warming.
Jurors at Maidstone Crown Court have cleared the Greenpeace activists who shut down Kingsnorth Power Station, accepting the defence that the protest was lawful because it aimed to prevent damaging emissions.
This was the first case where preventing property damage caused by climate change has been used as part of a "lawful excuse" defence in court. It is now expected to be used widely by environment groups.
The court had heard from Prof James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, that the 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted daily by Kingsnorth could be responsible for the extinction of up to 400 species.
