Portugal kept its lights on with renewable energy alone for four consecutive days in a clean energy milestone revealed by data analysis of national energy network figures. ...
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Tag: Floods
A government study in 2012 showed that flooding in the UK is the greatest impact from climate change - the extensive floods in 2000 were made twice as likely because of glo...
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The whole world will now have seen the dreadful pictures from Calgary which has experienced severe flooding. At least three people have been killed and more than a 100,000 ...
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The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee have in effect scrapped plans for the Severn Barrage, citing costs of £25 billion, possible damage to estua...
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From the hallowed information source that is the IPKat comes news of an outbreak of giant counterfeit rubber ducks. The original, by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, is 16.5...
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"Green jobs at risk from 'Tea Party' Tories" - OK, sounds like the thread of our blog "The excellent economics of green" which basically took a swipe at the muddled right w...
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The Creamfields dance music festival has ended a day early after torrential rain caused "heavy flooding" at the festival site at Daresbury in Cheshire. The site was closed ...
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This April looks like being the wettest ever recorded in the UK and some parts of the country have already experienced flooding - but the UK remains on drought alert and th...
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Italy begins 2011 with a ban on plastic bags in shops and supermarkets, making it the first country to ban plastic bags in Europe. Italians are among the top consumers of p...
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