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United Kingdom: London's cooking waste to fuel power station
2013-04-07 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cooking waste from thousands of London restaurants and food companies is to help run what is claimed to be the world's biggest fat-fuelled power station. The energy generated from the grease, oil and fat that clogs the capital's sewers will also be channelled to help run a major sewage works and a desalination plant, as well as supplying the National Grid, under plans announced by Thames Water and utility company 2OC. The prospect of easing the financial and logistical problems of pouring 1m...
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United Kingdom: Why our turbulent weather is getting even harder to predict
2013-04-07 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain's weather excelled itself last week. It produced an Easter Sunday that was the coldest on record in the UK. Temperatures stuck below zero in many regions; freezing conditions continued to disrupt transport; and experts warned of increasing threats to animals and birds already struggling to survive loss of habitat and climate change. The start of British Summer Time last Sunday night was marked in Braemar by temperatures that fell to -11C. For good measure, an unappetising April looks likely...
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United Kingdom: MPs call for ban on 'nerve agent' neonicotinoid pesticides to protect dwindling bee population
2013-04-05 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Nerve agent pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged. The All Party Environmental Audit Committee has called for a precautionary moratorium that would prevent three types of neonicotinoid pesticide from being used on the plants that attract bees while they are in flower. The Government has opposed any pesticide ban despite pressure...
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United Kingdom: March 'was second coldest on record'
2013-04-03 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Freezing temperatures in March made it the UK's joint second coldest since records began more than 100 years ago, the Met Office has said. The mean temperature was just 2.2C (36F) - more than 3C colder than the long-term monthly average. Last month matched the average temperature in March 1947 - only March 1962 was colder at 1.9C (35F). March was also much drier than usual with 62.1mm (2.4in) of rain, 65% of the historical average for the month. Scotland was yet more parched with only...
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United Kingdom: The government's floods policy is in shambles
2013-04-02 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The focus for now may be on the surprise freezing spell still gripping the UK, but many in Britain are already enduring the devastating impacts of flooding. As the snow melts, one certainty is that many more are going to suffer, having their homes, businesses and livelihoods threatened. It's likely to stay that way for many weeks, if not months. For in much of the country, the land is soaked, the reservoirs full, and the rivers are already at their limits. The scientists are telling us with increasing...
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