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United Kingdom: Bluebells blooming three weeks earlier than last year due to warm spring
2014-04-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Bluebells are flowering much earlier than in last year's cold spring, with peak displays expected in time for Easter, according to the Woodland Trust. The charity said nearly 200 sightings of native bluebells had been recorded on its woodlandtrust.org.uk website. This time last year, just 43 submissions had been received because of the cold weather. The trust is expecting a much earlier average first flowering date for bluebells than in 2013, when the average date across the UK was May 5. The...
United Kingdom: Local authorities 'hustled' into passing greenfield planning permissions
2014-04-13 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Councils are being "hustled" into allowing development on greenfield land by the government, the director-general of the National Trust has warned. In a rare public intervention Dame Helen Ghosh warned that pressure from the government is pushing councils into proposing greenfield land for development rather than brownfield sites. Speaking on the two year anniversary of the government's planning reforms, Dame Helen said the National Trust is "very worried" about the scale of development and...
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United Kingdom: National Trust calls for action to protect coastline from climate change
2014-04-13 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A national strategy to adapt Britains coastlines to the rising sea levels and extreme weather that are expected as a result of climate change is urgently needed, the National Trust has warned. Referring to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes recent report on the likely impacts of climate change, the organisation says that protecting communities and habitats along our shores will demand a new approach. As one of the UKs biggest coastal owners, in a new report the trust says it...
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United Kingdom: Tory plan to limit onshore windfarms will raise energy bills, engineers warn
2014-04-10 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Conservative party plan to limit the number of onshore windfarms would drive up household energy bills, according to the UK's most eminent engineers. Replacing a single banned onshore turbine with offshore wind power, which is more expensive, would cost 300,000 a year more in subsidies, with the extra cost being added to bills, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) said. The engineers also said a cap on turbines would make it harder to meet the UK's legally binding targets for renewable energy...
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United Kingdom: Conservatives give strongest sign yet they will halt windfarm expansion
2014-04-08 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Tory chairman, Grant Shapps, has given the first public signal that the Conservatives will seek a moratorium of onshore windfarms and will draw a dividing line with the Lib Dems, who he says love them. The senior minister appeared to confirm Guardian reports that the Tories will pledge at the next election to cap the output of onshore wind farms from 2020. Asked by the Western Morning News whether plans to curb wind farms would feature in his party's manifesto, Shapps said: "The wind is...
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