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United Kingdom: Tesco to give surplus fresh food to FareShare to help charities
2013-10-16 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tesco is to provide surplus food equivalent to 7m meals a year to more than 1,000 charities across the UK as it scales up its existing partnership with the food redistribution charity FareShare. The announcement on World Food Day comes as figures from FareShare show the organisation is facing record levels of demand for its services and providing food to more organisations and food banks helping the poor and the hungry than ever before. It now provides food to more than 1,000 charities across...
United Kingdom: Fresh questions raised over fracking jobs 'boom'
2013-10-16 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Projections suggesting the UK's nascent fracking industry could grow rapidly to support up to 74,000 jobs have come under fire this morning, as reports reveal that official estimates put the job creation potential of the sector at no more than 24,300 full-time posts. This summer a report from the Institute of Directors predicted that the UK shale gas industry could support up to 74,000 direct and indirect jobs, at the same time as helping to hold down energy costs and bolstering UK energy security....
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United Kingdom: Fracking faces legal challenge from Lancashire farmer & Greenpeace
2013-10-14 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a challenge to fracking in England. The environmental charity is working with people in Lancashire and the West Sussex village of Balcombe whose homes are near sites where the energy company Cuadrilla is looking at using hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas and oil. Andrew Pemberton, who supplies milk to 3,000 households in Lytham on the Lancashire coast, said he had joined the campaign because he would lose his livelihood...
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United Kingdom: The Government's answer to global warming? Cold feet
2013-10-13 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: It is now close to a month since my dear friends and colleagues were taken at knife-point from our ship, Arctic Sunrise. A day earlier, Russian security forces fired live ammo into the water around their small inflatable boat as they peacefully demonstrated against the first oil rig to attempt drilling in the Arctic waters to the north of Russia. They are now being held in cold cells for 23 hours a day in Murmansk detention centre, in the biggest city inside the Arctic Circle, while we wait to...
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United Kingdom: Chris Packham: 'I don't like myself enough to want to reproduce'
2013-10-13 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Chris Packham has revealed that his acute self-criticism has left him reluctant to have children. The naturalist, TV presenter and author told Desert Island Discs: "I don't like myself enough to want to reproduce myself." He added: "I'm very self-critical and I think that that's a healthy thing because I want to continually improve what I try to do. "To do that you need to be self-critical, so it's difficult for me to perceive any success in anything I do." Packham also disclosed that...
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