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United Kingdom: Plans to drop climate debate from national curriculum 'unacceptable'
2013-04-15 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Leading environmental figures, including the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, have condemned government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable". In a letter to the Sunday Times, signed by academics, politicians and business leaders, they warn the proposals are shortsighted, coming when the loss of wildlife and habitats is ongoing, and evidence suggests many children...
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Low Latency No. 58: Tragic Kingdom
2013-04-12 17:37:44| CNET News.com
This week we say goodbye to the timeless game development studio, LucasArts. [Read more]
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United Kingdom: The long, slow death of the UK coal industry
2013-04-11 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nothing better symbolised the passing of a great industry, referred to reverentially as "King Coal", than the lowering of one of the last chunks to have been cut at Maltby colliery next to the grave of the "unknown miner" in the town's cemetery last weekend. His had been the only body to be recovered when a gas explosion ripped through the underground galleries 90 years ago, killing 27 men. Those present wiped away tears, as last rites on an industry that had sustained this community for more than...
United Kingdom: Thatchers green legacy
2013-04-11 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Yesterday, the Conservative MEP and self-styled right wing firebrand Daniel Hannan asked a thought-provoking question. The question, voiced on Twitter, was directed at "all the Lefties complaining that Margaret Thatcher closed coal-mines", and asked whether they were "after all, in favour of burning coal?" The answer for most "lefties" and greens (regardless of what Hannan thinks, the two constituencies are not synonymous) is, of course, "no, we are not in favour of burning coal, at least not...
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United Kingdom: Margaret Thatcher: green hero?
2013-04-09 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Margaret Thatcher will be remembered for her short lived "green period" in the late 1980s when she helped put climate change (or global warming as it was then known), acid rain and pollution on to the mainstream political map. Tutored by Sir Crispin Tickell, British ambassador to the UN in New York, she made several dramatic environment speeches. The first, to the Royal Society on 27 September 1988, galvanised the emerging green debate in Britain and helped swell the membership of groups like...
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