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United Kingdom: Can Scotland's feisty wildcats be brought back from the brink?

2016-04-06 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Nature Network: The population has declined steadily through hundreds of years of persecution by gamekeepers, loss of habitat, and also through hybridization with feral domestic cats. It is estimated that anywhere from 35 to 400 pure wildcats are left in the wild, and they are considered one of Great Britain's most endangered mammals. But because they are solitary, elusive, and there are a high number of cats that are actually hybrids, estimating exactly how many pure wildcats are left has proven to be a difficult...

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Scotland's economy grows by 0.2%

2016-04-06 12:32:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Scotland's economy grew by 0.2% in the last quarter of 2015 but trailed the UK's performance as a whole, according to official figures.

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Scotland's economy grows by 0.2%

2016-04-06 11:41:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Scotland's economy grew by 0.2% in the last quarter of 2015 but trailed the UK's performance as a whole, according to official figures.

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Wind power providing almost half of Scotlands energy supply

2016-02-08 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scotsman: WIND power provided almost half of Scotland`s entire energy needs last month, new research has shown. There were 22 days in January when the amount of electricity generated from the wind was sufficient to power every home in the country. WWF Scotland analysed data on renewable power provided by Weather Energy, and found wind turbines supplied a total of 1,125,544 Megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity to the national grid. While this is 14% lower than in January 2015, it still amounts to 48%...

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Scotland's Edinburgh Gateway station to open by December 2016

2016-01-22 01:00:00| Railway Technology

The UK's Network Rail has announced that the Edinburgh Gateway station in Scotland is on schedule to open by the end of the year.

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