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United Kingdom: Air pollution monitoring stations face closure as government looks to cut costs
2013-08-22 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Up to 600 stations for monitoring air pollution across England could be shut down under new government plans to save money by cutting regulations. Ministers want to remove obligations on local authorities to assess air quality in their areas, resulting in less monitoring. But environmental campaigners are accusing them of trying to hide one of the country's biggest public health problems. Government advisers have estimated that one type of pollutant miniscule particles from diesel engines,...
United Kingdom: Fracking faces a little local difficulty
2013-08-21 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The Balcombe protest may be annoying but it has also been pretty effective. The brouhaha over Cuadrilla's attempts to explore local oil deposits has included celebrities, guitars, bongos, compost toilets and a vegan snack bar. It even involved the arrest of the Green MP, Caroline Lucas. It has shattered the tranquillity of the pretty Sussex village -- and raised concerns about fracking. But no matter how much noise these visiting activists make, they aren't the ones who could really wreck the Government's...
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United Kingdom: Early birds and butterflies miss the worm
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: British researchers are using insect specimens kept in museums for a century and a quarter to learn more about climate change and the steady move towards the earlier annual arrival of spring. Thousands of butterfly specimens, some collected in the UK as long ago as 1876, are being used to extend the reach of phenological research, or the study of the timing of recurring natural events and seasons. The researchers, whose work is centered on the UK's Natural History Museum in London and the University...
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United Kingdom: Cameron is fracking's biggest cheerleader
2013-08-21 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Any new technology has a short honeymoon period where its attractions loom large before practicalities intervene to burst the bubble and a more realistic picture of its costs and benefits emerges. I should know, I helped to raise expectations about the future of UK wave power in the early 2000s. Our hope that large wave farms would be up and running within the decade proved distinctly optimistic. But most politicians develop an instinctive reflex against technological optimism, understanding the...
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United Kingdom: Fracking: the Battle of Balcombe is far from over
2013-08-20 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What do bloody clashes on the streets of Cairo have in common with anti-fracking protests against the Cuadrilla exploration rig in rural West Sussex? At a stretch, what links the Battle of Balcombe, which so outrages Tory Fleet Street, with harassment of the Guardian over Edward Snowden's data-mining disclosures? In terms of substance, not a lot connects a constitutional battle for the Egyptian presidency, an environmental tussle in a prosperous corner of Britain and a debate over national security,...
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