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Britain to limit funding for new power-only biomass plants
2013-07-18 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New standalone biomass power plants in Britain will not be eligible for some subsidies unless they generate heat at the same time, under new government proposals, meaning many new plants could be canceled, an industry lobby said. Britain's government said on Wednesday it aimed to deny public money via guaranteed minimum power prices to dedicated biomass plants that do not generate both heat and electricity. "The lack of a strike price for new build biomass means support for this important technology...
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Heatwave Britain - are we putting our heads in the sand?
2013-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: At last, the UK looks set to enjoy a real summer. Tuesday will be the hottest day of the year and the heatwave is forecast to last well into next week. But there are two sides to sunny weather. While the population at large has been rejoicing around the barbecue, health authorities have warned that extreme summer heat is set to become the norm and that we need to get better at preparing for it. The deaths of two soldiers during a training exercise in Wales on Saturday have brought home the...
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VIDEO: Britain to boost trade with Burma?
2013-07-16 11:08:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Burma's President Thein Sein becomes the first leader of his country, also known as Myanmar, to visit Britain in more than 25 years.
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NPA Calls for Help Keeping Deadly Disease Out of Britain
2013-07-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - NPA has asked everyone in British agriculture to help keep a new pig disease out of Europe. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus has been present in this country in a mild form for over 40 years. But new strains which have spread from China to the United States are wiping out whole generations of newly-born pigs — and there is no effective treatment.
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Britain basks in sunshine at last. But is it all part of the same global pattern of freak weather?
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: What connects this weekends glorious summer weather with the record heatwave in Death Valley California, the devastating floods this spring in Germany, the miserably cold March in Britain, unusually warm temperatures in Alaska this winter and many other examples of extreme weather around the world? The answer according to some scientists is a high-altitude ribbon of fast-moving air in the northern hemisphere called the jet stream which appears to have changed from travelling in a relatively straight...
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