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Warming threat to England's curlews
2015-07-22 10:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Much-loved birds including curlews and cuckoos are under a growing threat from climate change in England, according to a new report. Other species including golden plovers and lapwings are also at risk from rising temperatures in the coming decades. The report says changing conditions in England will significantly benefit wasps, ants and many southern species. The study is said to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken in England. Researchers looked at the impacts of a 2 degrees C rise in...
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'Road tax' rears its ugly head again for England's cyclists
2015-07-09 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As a man who seems to mainly get the bike out when there are press photographers around, George Osborne probably never thought what potential troubles he was causing the two-wheeled with his changes to vehicle excise duty in his summer budget. The zombie is alive. Road tax is back. Well, sort of. Many people who have ridden a bike in Britain will have heard the traditional calling cry of the angry, not-so-well-informed motorist: You lot dont even pay for the roads! This is a reference to...
England's water voles in desperate decline
2015-05-11 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: English waterways could lose one of their most charismatic and once widespread residents as water voles succumb to the invasive American mink, records released by the Canal and River Trust show. Between 1970 and 1999, water voles were found on 269 of the 2,000 miles of waterways managed by the trust. But since the turn of the century, their range dropped by almost 50% to 141 miles. Mark Robinson, national ecologist for the Canal and River Trust, said the numbers told of a species in desperate...
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VIDEO: England's sparkling wine renaissance
2014-11-10 08:09:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BBC Inside Out discovers why English wine is enjoying a renaissance with an explosion in sparkling wine production and award-winning wines.
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GE Enables More Wind on New England's Transmission Network
2014-08-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
• First Wind’s Oakfield Wind Project to Generate 148 MW; Enough to Power 50K Homes<br /> <br /> • GE’s Synchronous Condenser Solution to Improve Power Stability<br /> <br /> • GE’s Energy Consulting Team Provides Custom Analysis and Tailored Solutions<br /> <br /> PARIS – While the integration of wind energy continues to have broad public policy support, consumers are playing a larger role to ensure their electricity provider is using higher levels of ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanWind Turbines | Green Energy Generation Systems |
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