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United Kingdom: Labour seeks fracking restrictions to protect drinking water
2015-01-08 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Labour Party is seeking to ban fracking for shale gas on land that collects Britains drinking water in proposed amendments to the governments infrastructure bill. A campaign group has said such a move is basic common sense. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is gradually becoming more widespread in the UK although the method of extracting shale gas remains controversial. Those supporting fracking claim it can be used as a transition fuel towards a low-carbon economy and that with the...
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United Kingdom: Badger culls will take 20 years to eliminate bovine TB, says environment secretary
2015-01-07 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Culling badgers will not get rid of bovine TB in the UK for more than two decades, the environment secretary told farmers on Wednesday. The controversial cull is part of a package of measures championed by the coalition government, including controls on the movement of cattle and better monitoring. But these are still unlikely to bring the disease under control for many years. Elizabeth Truss, secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, said: This government is taking action...
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United Kingdom: 2014 warmest on record
2015-01-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: WEATHER forecasters say that 2014 was Scotland's warmest year on record and one of the wettest for almost a century. The average temperature was 8.4C, one degree above the previous high in 2006. Last year was also the third wettest since 1910, with 1744 mm (68 inches) of rain recorded across the country on a total of 201 wet days somewhere. The picture in Scotland mirrored that of the UK as a whole, where the average temperature for the year was 9.9C (49.8F), around 1.1C (2F) above the long-term...
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United Kingdom: 7,000 properties to be lost due to rising sea levels, says Environment Agency
2015-01-05 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: By the end of the century an estimated 7,000 properties across England and Wales will be lost to rising sea levels, according to the Environment Agency, after a decision that states the cost of protecting the properties would be too high. The risk of flooding in the UK is expected to grow as the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and increased rainfall, escalate. Analysis published last year ranked the UK as one of the counties where flooding poses the greatest risk to economic...
United Kingdom: Hundreds homes to be wiped from the West map by floods
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Morning News: Hundreds of homes are predicted to be wiped from the Westcountry map by flooding before the end of the century, previously unpublished figures show. An estimated 7,000 properties around England and Wales will be sacrificed to rising seas over the next century, according to the Environment Agency. Its analysis, based on current funding levels, projects that more than 800 will be lost over the next 20 years as coastlines erode because they are too costly to protect. Thousands of high-value...
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