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Environment Agency consult on flood defences in York

WaterBriefing — 19 March 2010 08:25
People in the Leeman Road area of York are to be asked to tell the Environment Agency about their experience of flooding in the local area, to help to provide a better understanding of the...

...to prevent flooding. The flood risk is likely to increase with climate change. In very high flood events, suspected seepage from the existing...

Bolivia creates a new opportunity for climate talks that failed at Copenhagen

Guardian.co.uk — 19 March 2010 08:03
Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to 'betray its...

...talks that failed at Copenhagen Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to 'betray its...

Electric cars and 40 new nuclear power stations to meet climate change targets

Telegraph.co.uk — 18 March 2010 07:00
Every car on the road will need to be electric and there will be solar panels on every home, 10,000 wind turbines onshore and 40 new nuclear power stations if the Government is to stand a chance of meeting strict climate change targets, engineers have...

...Electric cars and 40 new nuclear power stations to meet climate change targets Every car on the road will need to be electric and there will...

Number of Arctic species plunges by a quarter

Click Green — 17 March 2010 23:06
A new assessment of the Arctics biodiversity reports a 26 per cent decline in species populations in the high Arctic. Populations of lemmings, caribou and red knot are some of the species that have experienced declines over the past 34 years, according to the first report from The Arctic Species Trend...

...a natural cycle, there is concern that pressures such as climate change may be exacerbating natural cyclic declines. In contrast, population...

1 in 10 butterflies at risk of extinction

The Scotsman — 17 March 2010 21:21
ALMOST a third of Europe's butterflies are in decline and nearly one in ten species is threatened with extinction, conservationists warned...

...which are moving north because, we think, of the warming brought by climate change, but other indigenous ones are declining," he said. Many of...

UK plans £6.5bn increase to economy through carbon capture and storage

New Energy World Network — 17 March 2010 12:35
The UK government said carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants may add £6.5bn to the economy as it awarded £6.3m to Scottish Southern Energy (SSE) for its trial project in...

...has set up a new CCS division within the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to facilitate the delivery of the technology in the...

Butterflies 'fly early as planet warms'

Yahoo! News Australia — 17 March 2010 04:03
Australian scientists say they have uncovered a "causal link" between the early emergence of a common butterfly and human-induced global warming. Dr Michael Kearney of the University of Melbourne and his colleagues report their study on the butterfly heteronympha merope in this week's issue of Royal..

...between the early emergence of a common butterfly and human-induced global warming. Dr Michael Kearney of the University of Melbourne and his...

Early butterflies linked by study to climate change

Click Green — 16 March 2010 22:41
Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been linked to regional human-induced climate change in a University of Melbourne-led...

...Early butterflies linked by study to climate change Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift...

Weather bureau backs climate change verdict

ABC News — 15 March 2010 08:35
Two of the nation's top research bodies - the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO - have come out strongly in defence of the science behind global warming.

...Weather bureau backs climate change verdict Two of the nation's top research bodies - the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO - have come out...

Antarctic winds affect key ocean layer

ABC Science — 15 March 2010 00:28
ABC Scientists have discovered a link between winds that circle Antarctica, and changes in the depth of an important ocean layer. But researchers say it's still too early to know whether climate change is affecting these circumpolar winds, which could in turn further impact the rate of...

...Antarctic winds affect key ocean layer ABC Scientists have discovered a link between winds that circle Antarctica, and changes in the depth of...