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United Kingdom: Floods: a disaster waiting to happen
2013-02-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the night of 31 January 1953, a high tide was expected, but what came with it was something no one had predicted. A storm was gathering over the North Sea, with low atmospheric pressure sucking up the waves, raising the sea level dramatically, and high winds whipping the waves to fury. When it hit the UK's east coast, the waters broke high over seawalls and surged as far as 10 miles inland. There was no warning and, with primitive communications, little ability to tell people of the danger when...
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United Kingdom: Thousands of seabirds dead after suspected oil dump from rogue tanker
2013-02-02 08:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Almost 200 birds -- mostly guillemots -- were washed ashore and found covered in a sticky Vaseline-like substance. It is feared thousands more could be floating in the sea, unable to feed because their feathers and wings have become stuck together by the waxy oil. There was earlier speculation the mystery substance may have been palm oil, but scientists working to identify it have since reported that it is a refined mineral oil. Staff at the RSPCA West Hatch centre near Taunton, Somerset, have...
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United Kingdom: Insurers' cash used to fund climate change
2013-02-01 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The UK's insurance industry is today accused of funding enviromentally threating research. The claim comes from the respected Ethical Consumer magazine. Its research shows that big insurers such as Aviva, Legal & General and LV= are funding major oil and gas exploration in the Arctic by investing in the firms whose activities risk widespread environmental disaster. The work could be catastrophic for the environment, according to Rob Harrison, one of the authors of the report. "At a time when the...
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United Kingdom: From Somerset to Sellafield: it's a thumbs-down to storing nuclear waste
2013-02-01 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lecture titles do not normally stick in the mind, but one has stayed with me for more than 30 years. The lion of nuclear fission has been tamed,' it ran. "It remains to clear up what he leaves in his cage.' A generation has passed since the talk was delivered -- by Ned Franklin, perhaps the best atomic industry chief of the day -- and the nuclear-waste mess is still festering. Indeed, after this week, there is little chance of it being cleaned up in the foreseeable future, causing it to threaten...
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United Kingdom: MPs call for urgent action to reduce flooding
2013-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The government needs to take urgent action to reduce the impact of flooding, MPs have said. Ministers had been "too slow" in pushing through changes to improve protection, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said. But it welcomed government plans for more competition in the water sector, in its report on the draft Water Bill. The government said the proposed legislation would build resilience into the UK's water infrastructure. However, Labour said the plans were "ideologically...
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