LOOSE ENDS | Friday

• Reuters reports that 'Geological shifts over millions of years may explain the huge wealth of fish, corals and other life in seas between Asia and Australia and hold clues to modern conservation'
• Reuters also reports that fires are 'engulfing woodlands in the coastal tourism province of Antalya and threatening sites of ancient culture'
• The Guardian (UK) reports that a 'six-ton northern bottlenose whale stranded on harbour flats in Hampshire is suffering from kidney failure' and will have to be put down
• The Lost Angeles Times reports that a judge in Southern California has ruled that 'thirteen proposed electricity-generating plants cannot be built without the necessary environmental and health analyses'
• The Los Angeles Times also reports that the US fisheries service has agreed 'it must measure health effects on salmon' of pesticides that make it into 'streams in the Pacific Northwest and California'.
• BBC News reports that 'more needs to be done to encourage investment in large-scale biomass plants if the EU is going to meet its renewables goal'
• BBC News also reports that 'Andrew Simms, co-author of a Green New Deal, says we have 100 months to halt dangerous climate change'
• Agence France-Presse reports that British Energy, EDF takeover talks have stalled
• The Times (UK) has reported that some are complaining that a Scottish wind farm a blot on the country's greenness