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United Kingdom: Solar power sees record high in June
2016-07-04 06:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Solar power has hit new record highs in the UK, providing almost a quarter of the country's electricity at one point last month, analysis shows. The solar industry estimates the country now has almost 12 gigawatts (GW) of solar panels, on homes, offices, warehouses, schools and other buildings and in solar farms - enough to power the equivalent of 3.8 million homes. New analysis by MyGridGB for the Solar Trade Association (STA) shows that solar power hit a new peak of meeting 23.9% of demand in...
Report: United Arab Emirates invests in Mender marginal field to boost production
2016-07-01 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The development of Mender field is part of UAEs efforts to increase its oil production as no significant crude oil discoveries have been made recently, according to a report by GlobalData.
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United Kingdom: How London Array blows away the competition in green energy
2016-06-28 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At the widest point of the Greater Thames estuary, 12 miles north of the Kent coast and 12 miles south of Essex, lies the London Array the largest operational offshore wind farm in the world. Completed in 2013, after 10 years of planning and construction, it covers an area of 40 square miles roughly the same size of Bristol and comprises 175 individual turbines laid out in neat rows like an enormous nursery flower bed. Standing on a boat in the middle of the wind farm surrounded by these...
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United Kingdom: Batten the hatches as summers to have more heavy downpours
2016-06-21 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: The state of the British summer has always been a constant source of fascination and irritation, if only for its fickle nature. Now the latest prediction is for more heavy summer downpours. Our study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows the first evidence that summer downpours in the UK could become heavier with climate change. We used a very high-resolution model more typically used for weather forecasting to study changes in hourly rainfall. Unlike current climate models, this...
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Obama: Climate change biggest threat to United States national parks
2016-06-19 05:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fredonia Leader: It was a picture-perfect moment created to resonate on social media as the White House works to cement Obama's environmental legacy as the January 20, 2017 end to his time in office draws nearer. President Obama took in the sites Saturday at Yosemite National Park, but before doing a little exploring of his own he spoke from Cook's Meadow. The Obamas were due to fly west later on Friday to the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite, the country's oldest national park and one of its most popular...
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