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UK must transform to meet future energy needs, warn top engineers
Posted on March 18, 2010
"We are nowhere near having a plan," said Prof Sue Ion, who led the report. "What we are talking about is making sure our children and grandchildren have an energy infrastructure that is fit for purpose. "Another author, Prof Roger Kemp, from Lancaster University, said: "It needs the political enthusiasm that was behind the war on terror after 9/11."
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Ten sites named in £4bn UK marine energy project
Posted on March 16, 2010
The heavy Atlantic swell and some of the world's strongest tides are to be harnessed by a breakthrough scheme to generate clean marineenergy off northern Scotland, with predictions it will rival the output of a nuclear power station.
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    Council to approve plan to send nuclear waste to landfill
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Waste management company Augean is seeking to use a site in the village of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, to store up to 250,000 tonnes of radioactive debris a year
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    Ivory and bluefin tuna top agenda at UN wildlife summit
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    Sales of ivory and a ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the two-week CITES meeting in Doha, Qatar.
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    • Green Oscars
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Once again, a handful of green films will be competing for this year's Academy Awards.
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    • Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. Finally it arrives, and nobody notices. The government is about to shift £8.6bn from the poor to the middle classes. It expects a loss on this scheme of £8.2bn, or 95%. Yet the media is silent. The opposition urges only that the scam should be expanded.
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    Massive earthquake strikes Chile
    Posted on February 27, 2010
    A massive earthquake with an initial magnitude of 8.8 has struck central Chile. The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.
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    A Baltic cesspool?
    Posted on February 10, 2010
    The organisers of the Baltic Sea Action Summit in Helsinki say they are trying to save the most polluted body of water in the world.
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    • 'Climate emails hacked by spies'
    Posted on February 1, 2010
    A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government's former chief scientist.
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    Machu Picchu airlift rescues hundreds of tourists
    Posted on January 29, 2010
    About 1,400 tourists have been airlifted from near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru following floods that destroyed road and rail links
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    We will find 'twins of Earth' this year, says astronomer Michel Mayor
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Scientists will have detected the first truly Earth-like planet outside the solar system by the end of the year, one of the world’s leading astronomers predicted yesterday.
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    One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show
    Posted on January 23, 2010
    One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.
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    World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
    Posted on January 17, 2010
    A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.
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    SAN JOSE JOURNAL: In Latino Gardens, Vegetables, Good Health and Savings Flourish
    Posted on January 17, 2010
    The two-month-old vegetable garden, from which Mrs. Alarcon picks extravagant bursts of broccoli for breakfast with scrambled eggs, is both comforting and unfamiliar. It is one of 30 backyard vegetable gardens recently planted by a nonprofit group here called La Mesa Verde, or The Green Table, which makes house calls to help residents of the city’s low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhoods grow their own organic produce.
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    Who will pay for Amazon's 'Chernobyl'?
    Posted on January 10, 2010
    A film released this week in Britain recounts the 16-year battle by Ecuadorians for damages against Chevron for oil pollution
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