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United Kingdom: Boris Johnson must lobby the government for a plastic bag tax
2013-04-17 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Over ten years ago the Republic of Ireland introduced a plastic bag charge which has virtually eliminated plastic bags. Two years ago Wales followed suit and this week Northern Ireland introduced a carrier bag tax. Scotland is also consulting on the subject. Against this, the government continues to dither and delay with failed supermarket voluntary measures in England, when the only proven way to slash the most potent symbol of needless waste is a charge on all single use bags. If the same reduction...
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United Kingdom: 'Sticky' birds' deaths 'tragic'
2013-04-15 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Up to 200 birds might have died after being covered in a sticky substance, the RSPB has said. Hundreds of birds have been found on beaches in Devon and Cornwall since they started to appear on Wednesday. One woman said she found more than 150 on a beach in south Cornwall on Monday. Dog walkers collected about 20 dead birds from Par Beach in Cornwall on Monday morning. Sheryll Murray, the Conservative MP for South East Cornwall, said it was "tragic". Alison Fogg said 157 dead seabirds...
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United Kingdom: Plans to drop climate debate from national curriculum 'unacceptable'
2013-04-15 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Leading environmental figures, including the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, have condemned government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable". In a letter to the Sunday Times, signed by academics, politicians and business leaders, they warn the proposals are shortsighted, coming when the loss of wildlife and habitats is ongoing, and evidence suggests many children...
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United Kingdom: The long, slow death of the UK coal industry
2013-04-11 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nothing better symbolised the passing of a great industry, referred to reverentially as "King Coal", than the lowering of one of the last chunks to have been cut at Maltby colliery next to the grave of the "unknown miner" in the town's cemetery last weekend. His had been the only body to be recovered when a gas explosion ripped through the underground galleries 90 years ago, killing 27 men. Those present wiped away tears, as last rites on an industry that had sustained this community for more than...
United Kingdom: Thatchers green legacy
2013-04-11 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Yesterday, the Conservative MEP and self-styled right wing firebrand Daniel Hannan asked a thought-provoking question. The question, voiced on Twitter, was directed at "all the Lefties complaining that Margaret Thatcher closed coal-mines", and asked whether they were "after all, in favour of burning coal?" The answer for most "lefties" and greens (regardless of what Hannan thinks, the two constituencies are not synonymous) is, of course, "no, we are not in favour of burning coal, at least not...
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