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United Kingdom: Oxford alumni condemn choice of Shell to fund earth sciences lab
2013-05-08 20:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The veteran environmental campaigners Jonathon Porritt and Jeremy Leggett are among 100 past and present students and staff who are accusing Oxford University of hypocrisy for accepting funding from Shell for a new earth sciences laboratory. In a letter published in the Guardian on Thursday, the group maintains that Shell is a "particularly inappropriate choice of funder for an earth sciences laboratory". They point out that the Anglo-Dutch company's core business of oil production is in conflict...
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United Kingdom: The desperate battle to save our coastline
2013-05-07 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The 95-mile Jurassic Coast between Poole Harbour in Dorset and the Exe estuary in Devon is an extreme example of geological exhibitionism. Among its many wonders are red and white cliffs, fossils galore, England's most elegant sea arch, offshore stacks and the delightfully symmetrical scoop of Lulworth Cove. They exist because this is a coast on the move, under continual attack from tide and tempest. Last week, a small part of it, at the base of a cliff on the edge of St Oswald's Bay, fractured...
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United Kingdom: Radioactive materials lost in more than 30 incidents over past decade
2013-05-05 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Radioactive materials have gone missing from businesses, hospitals and even schools more than 30 times over the last decade, a freedom of information request to the UK's health and safety authorities has revealed. Nuclear experts have warned that some of the lost material could be used by terrorists and said there should be a crackdown by the regulators to ensure such "carelessness" is brought to a speedy halt. Among the big names that have lost potentially dangerous materials are Rolls-Royce...
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United Kingdom: Lobster catches drop 90% after winter
2013-05-05 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Fishermen have said the harsh and prolonged winter in Scotland has been disastrous for the country's lobster industry. Valuable stocks of the shellfish are are still hibernating out at sea because of the cold weather. Creel fishermen claim catches are as much as 90% down on last year, meaning prices for the seafood have soared. Laura Bicker reports.
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United Kingdom: There's nothing wrong with low-carbon policy that strong government can't fix
2013-05-05 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: The UK's energy policy is not "plausible" and a "crisis" is inevitable. That is the view of Peter Atherton, a respected utilities analyst who works for Liberum Capital, an investment bank in the City. Atherton is convinced that successive UK governments have grossly underestimated the engineering, financial and economic challenges posed by the planned move from a high-carbon electricity sector to a low-carbon one. He believes that the cost of switching from largely coal- and gas-fired power...
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