Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Western Daily press A Severn Barrage with the potential to generate around 7% of the UK’s energy needs has been ruled out ...

Environmentalists have reacted angrily to the government's proposed shortlist of projects for what could become the UK's single biggest renewable energy project. Campaigners are dismayed that the ...

A 20-year conservation effort to restore the lower Siuslaw River just got a big boost. A cattle farmer recently transferred 245 acres of land to continue restoration of the tidal estuary. The act will ...

A mixed flock of wading birds, mostly dunlin and some ringed plovers, in flight over the River Severn estuary. Photograph: Colin Hipwell/Alamy 9.24am: Peter Hain, the shadow Welsh secretary, quit ...

STANWOOD — On a cold May morning, Emily Howe loaded into a small motorboat to revisit her bug sample sites in the Port Susan Preserve. Small flies and other aquatic bugs are a major food source for ...

New commission "will have the expertise and independence it needs to explore whether using the Severn Estuary to create sustainable power is attainable and viable." The notion of harnessing the Severn ...

Small 50kW version of Scottish technology developer's design installed off Brittany in regional sector's first deployment in over a decade France’s promising but stalled tidal power play has found a ...

It has the second largest tidal range in the world, which could be used to meet up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Two forms of technology are being assessed by the study: tidal barrages and ...