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United Kingdom: Coal-fired plant permits no longer need proof of pollution standards plan
2016-03-13 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scores of Britains coal-fired power stations, steel plants and iron works will no longer have to maintain a plan to show they will meet air pollution standards under the latest permits issued by the government. ClientEarth, a group of environment lawyers who last year successfully sued the government over air pollution, said the permits deleted a condition that required the plants operators to publish air quality management plans and to assess how much they might damage protected nature areas....
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United Kingdom: A pocket of acorns
2016-03-12 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: When he wasn't at sea blockading the French, Admiral Collingwood liked nothing better than walking out from his house in Morpeth, Northumberland, with a pocket full of acorns, which he would press into the soil at likely spots, in order to ensure that, years after he was gone, there would be full-grown oaks enough to build new ships of the line for the Royal Navy. Today, our ships are no longer heart of oak, and thousands of our oaks are afflicted with a disease called acute oak decline. This...
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United Kingdom: Keep mandatory carbon reporting rules, businesses urge Treasury
2016-03-11 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK must keep its mandatory carbon reporting requirements, business leaders have today urged the Treasury ahead of an imminent decision on carbon reporting and taxation rules in next week's Budget. In a letter published this morning in The Independent executives from Aviva, BT, Marks & Spencer, the National Grid and a host of other businesses, argue the government should keep carbon reporting requirements first introduced in 2013, which require listed companies to report annually on their global...
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United Kingdom: Planting trees 'could cut flood risk'
2016-03-11 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Natural defences, including planting more trees, could be a solution to the country's flooding problems, according to new research. In a study led by the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, scientists found that planting trees could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20 per cent. They found strategic planting on flood plains could help towns downstream reduce the "peak height" of floods. But the scientists warned that natural flood defences would need to be combined...
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United Kingdom: Tree planting 'can reduce flooding'
2016-03-11 04:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Planting trees around rivers could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20%, new research suggests. A study for the Environment Agency concludes that trees round a feeder stream can slow the rush of rainwater and save properties from flooding. But it warns that natural flood prevention methods do not always work. And it urges a strategic approach because foresting a whole catchment would be counter-productive. The report - from the universities of Birmingham and Southampton - says...
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