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United Kingdom: Thousands Got Naked and Painted Their Bodies Blue for Climate Change
2016-07-11 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: If you were taking a morning stroll through the British town of Hull over the weekend, you might have been shocked to find a surreal, Smurf-like scene: a crowd of roughly 3,200 completely nude people gathered in the streets, all clustered together and painted bright shades of marine blue. The art installation was the brainchild of U.S.-based photographer Spencer Tunick, who was asked by a local museum to create one of his iconic large-scale works. Tunick put out a call for volunteers to participate...
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United Kingdom: An issue of life and death: Sadiq Khan unveils bold air quality plans for London
2016-07-07 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: On the 60th anniversary of the UK`s Clean Air Act, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a plan to tackle toxic air, including the implementation of clean bus corridors, an extension of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and an emissions surcharge. EurActiv`s partner edie.net reports. Launched as part of a major public consultation today (5 July), the mayor is taking much-needed action to clean up the air of a city which breached its annual pollution limits for 2016 in just one week. Key proposals...
United Kingdom: Solar power sees record high in June
2016-07-04 06:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Solar power has hit new record highs in the UK, providing almost a quarter of the country's electricity at one point last month, analysis shows. The solar industry estimates the country now has almost 12 gigawatts (GW) of solar panels, on homes, offices, warehouses, schools and other buildings and in solar farms - enough to power the equivalent of 3.8 million homes. New analysis by MyGridGB for the Solar Trade Association (STA) shows that solar power hit a new peak of meeting 23.9% of demand in...
United Kingdom: How London Array blows away the competition in green energy
2016-06-28 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At the widest point of the Greater Thames estuary, 12 miles north of the Kent coast and 12 miles south of Essex, lies the London Array the largest operational offshore wind farm in the world. Completed in 2013, after 10 years of planning and construction, it covers an area of 40 square miles roughly the same size of Bristol and comprises 175 individual turbines laid out in neat rows like an enormous nursery flower bed. Standing on a boat in the middle of the wind farm surrounded by these...
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United Kingdom: Batten the hatches as summers to have more heavy downpours
2016-06-21 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: The state of the British summer has always been a constant source of fascination and irritation, if only for its fickle nature. Now the latest prediction is for more heavy summer downpours. Our study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows the first evidence that summer downpours in the UK could become heavier with climate change. We used a very high-resolution model more typically used for weather forecasting to study changes in hourly rainfall. Unlike current climate models, this...
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