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United Kingdom: The high seas are too precious to be left to plunderers and polluters
2013-02-10 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The oceans are changing faster today and in more ways than at any time in human history. We are the cause. Which is why I welcome the launch of the Global Ocean Commission, dedicated to ending the neglect, in international affairs, of the high seas. These seas lie far beyond the horizon 200 nautical miles offshore to be precise and begin where sovereign national waters give way to the global commons, owned by none, shared by all. There was a time when foreign travel gave many people a familiarity...
United Kingdom: Thousands of wind turbines to go up as subsidies cut
2013-02-08 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The "dash for wind' has been prompted by a cut in subsidies due this year and an apparent relaxing of the planning rules. Some 763 turbines are due to be built onshore in 2013, up 60 per cent from last year. Already there are 4,366 turbines in operation in the UK providing 8.2GW of power, enough to power 4.5 million homes for a year. There are a further 7,843 turbines that have been approved but are yet to be built, bringing the total due to go up in the UK to more than 10,000. In the...
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United Kingdom: Bee deaths 'not down to pesticides'
2013-02-08 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Last week the European Commission proposed that member states restrict the use of certain classes of pesticide that are believed to be harmful to bees. The Today programme's science correspondent Tom Feilden explains that this comes after the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) issued guidance on the use of chemical neonicotinoids, in which they recognised "high acute risks" to bees who encountered residue from these sprays in pollen and nectar in crops like oilseed rape and sunflowers. Speaking...
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United Kingdom: Nationwide launches new green home loan
2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Fears the government's Green Deal energy efficiency scheme will be undercut by cheaper loans from established lenders look set to materialise, after Nationwide Building Society today launched a new energy efficiency loan offer boasting interest rates from 2.29 per cent. The building society said its new Green Additional Borrowing service would allow existing mortgage customers to take out loans of between 5,000 and 20,000 to undertake approved energy efficiency measures. It added that the...
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United Kingdom: Sellafield to be prosecuted for sending radioactive waste to wrong disposal site
2013-02-07 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Sellafield has pleaded guilty to sending several bags of radioactive waste to the wrong facility, according to the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The nuclear power company admitted sending four bags of mixed general waste to the Lillyhall landfill site in Workington, Cumbria, in April 2010. The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, tissues and clothing, should have gone to the low level waste repository, at Drigg. Sellafield Limited said the error was caused by a new monitor which...
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