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Anger as council approves first United Kingdom fracking project in five years
2016-05-24 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wingatewire: Rasik Valand, Third Energy CEO, said during the council committee meeting the company sees the application approval as a "huge responsibility to delivery on our promises, not a victory". May 24 Britain's first fracked shale gas could flow this year after local government officials in northern England approved Third Energy's plans late on Monday to carry out fracking at an existing well. Third Energy says the process is safe. Fracking was suspended in the United Kingdom in 2011 following...
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British architects say United Kingdom plagued by poorly designed schools
2016-05-11 16:09:00| American School & University
Report from the Royal Institute of British Architects calls for more flexibility in school design and construction. read more
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United Kingdom: Major new project maps out woodland biodiversity
2016-04-07 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An innovative joint project between the University of Stirling, Forest Research and Natural England is using woodland creation and maps from 1840 to the present day to assess the impact of past land use change on current biodiversity. Initial findings from the Woodland Creation and Ecological Networks (WrEN) project are published this week in the open access journal Ecology and Evolution and outline how British woodlands can be used as a study system to inform landscape-scale conservation. Dr Kevin...
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United Kingdom: Can Scotland's feisty wildcats be brought back from the brink?
2016-04-06 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: The population has declined steadily through hundreds of years of persecution by gamekeepers, loss of habitat, and also through hybridization with feral domestic cats. It is estimated that anywhere from 35 to 400 pure wildcats are left in the wild, and they are considered one of Great Britain's most endangered mammals. But because they are solitary, elusive, and there are a high number of cats that are actually hybrids, estimating exactly how many pure wildcats are left has proven to be a difficult...
United Kingdom: Government Figures Show Renewables Breaking New Records and Electricity Bills Coming Down
2016-04-03 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: New official figures released today highlight the record performance of renewable energy over the past year. Renewables are playing a central role in powering Britains homes, business and factories and fuel bills are falling. The data, from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, show that in 2015 a record 24.7% of the UKs electricity was generated from renewable sources an increase of 5.6% on 2014. The amount of electricity generated by wind increased by 26%, so that overall wind energy...
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