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United Kingdom: Drax steams ahead 700m biomass conversion
2013-12-09 11:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Drax power station is set to transform from the UK's biggest carbon emitter into its largest green electricity generator following a 700m coal-to-biomass conversion project. The Yorkshire site is currently the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK and provides about seven to eight per cent of the UK's total power. But the planned conversion of three of its six generating units to sustainable biomass will see its emissions reduced by about 10 million tonnes against today's levels,...
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United Kingdom: Government cracks down on illegal car pollution
2013-12-09 01:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Air quality campaigners and green businesses have welcomed a government pledge to crack down on the increasing number of drivers who are illegally taking their cars on the roads after removing mandatory soot filters. Roads minister Robert Goodwill announced last week that from February next year cars will fail the MoT if a diesel particulate filter that was fitted as standard has been removed. Most diesel cars sold after 2009 come with built-in particulate filters that claim to trap up to 99...
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United Kingdom: The destruction of our forests
2013-12-07 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The woods at South Cubbington, near Leamington Spa, have a wild pear tree, the largest in England, which was young during the French Revolution, and middle-aged before Leamington Spa even existed. After 250 years, it is about to be chopped down to save 23 minutes on the journey to Birmingham. Walk five yards into Mantles Wood, near Great Missenden, and you are transported in time. The noise and sight of the world fades out and you are among woodland that has been in this place since the year 1600...
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United Kingdom: What's infecting England's cows with TB? Is it badgers or farmers & climate change?
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a mist-shrouded parking lot, Will Ricks, a surveyor and landowner from Ross-on-Wye, stands in a circle of lamplight and briefs eight volunteers on the evening's mission. Ricks and his group belong to a volunteer organization, Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting (GABS). Since the badger cull, or killing, began in August in Somerset and Gloucestershire, GABS volunteers spend most nights trudging down the public footpaths that crisscross muddy fields to monitor badger habitat, searching for...
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United Kingdom: Flood warnings continue as towns begin clear-up after record storm surge
2013-12-06 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: People living in areas vulnerable to flooding were on Friday urged to be extremely cautious over the weekend despite a weakening in the sea surge that threatened havoc along eastern coastlines over Thursday night. As towns began clearing up after high tides flooded homes and other buildings, ministers warned the crisis was not over and the Environment Agency told people to continue taking extra care. By mid-afternoon on Friday about 1,400 properties were thought to have been flooded by record...
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