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United Kingdom: We must adapt to climate change, Scottish secretary says
2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
icLanarkshire: Scotland must find ways of adapting to a new and challenging climate, Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has said. The country's climate has changed over the last few decades. Weather is more severe and wetter, with 2011 seeing around a third more rain than the average annual amount between 1961 to 1990. A number of key bodies are to discuss how Scotland could be better prepared for extreme weather at a summit on Monday. Representatives from the Met Office, the Scottish Environment...
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United Kingdom: Ash dieback found in three new sites in first infections of the year
2013-03-03 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Forestry officials have confirmed the Chalara fraxinea fungus, which causes ash trees to gradually wither and die, has been found at three new sites in young trees in Wales. The cases are the first to be identified since the start of the winter, as the symptoms of the disease, which threatens to devastate Britain's 80 million ash trees, become hard to spot in trees once they lose their leaves. The number of cases to be found in Britain stands at 386 since it was first discovered last February,...
United Kingdom: Charity reaches rainforest goal
2013-03-01 03:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A charity founded to save tropical rainforest the size of Wales has achieved its goal. It has raised 2m in three years to protect over two million hectares of forest, mainly in Africa. "Size of Wales" was founded by Welsh environmentalists annoyed that their country was often used in the media as a comparator to gauge the scale of rainforest destruction. Copycat campaigns are now being discussed in Denmark and Ireland. The project's organisers say ultimately they'd like to see the people...
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United Kingdom: Seabirds to be released after rescue
2013-02-28 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Rescued birds are to fly at sea for the first time since being found on the coast covered in an oil additive. More than 300 guillemots and razorbills found covered in glue-like polyisobutene (PIB) four weeks ago have been cared for by the RSPCA. Most of them were discovered on Dorset beaches where they were found covered in the waxy substance. The RSPCA said it hoped up to 29 birds could be released from a cliff top in the Portland area on Thursday. Washing-up liquid They are to be...
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United Kingdom: Ministers 'driving up bills by failing to commit to low-carbon energy'
2013-02-27 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers are unnecessarily driving up energy bills for consumers by failing to fully commit to low-carbon energy production, the government's official advisers have warned the energy secretary, Ed Davey. Postponing a decision on whether to require electricity generation to be essentially emissions-free by 2030, ministers are undermining their own policies and will make energy more expensive, according to the Committee on Climate Change. "[Delay] will adversely impact on supply chain investment...
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