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Practical, Multi-University Low Carbon Technology Center

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:58:27 +0000

Looking to create products for the real world as soon as possible, a new research center in the UK is aiming to speed up the development and installment of a variety of low carbon technologies to ensure a greener future for us all.

This new £50 million ($80 million) center hopes to do this through more coordinated and focused efforts from four universities and a regional development agency. The four universities that have teamed up are Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and Yorkshire, and they are working with the regional development agency Yorkshire Forward. The name of the new center is Centre for Low Carbon Futures (CLCF).

Water Company Wiped Out 20 Years of Ecology Work in One Day

Andrew Williams — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:12:29 +0000

Britain’s largest water company has been fined £125,000 ($180,000), after polluting London’s River Wandle to such an extent that it wiped out twenty years of painstaking conservation work in a single day.

The shocking incident occurred in 2007, when Chlorine escaped from a Thames Water sewage treatment works, killing most of the fish along a 3 mile stretch of one of the city’s most iconic urban rivers. Local residents tried to save some of the distressed fish by transferring them from the river into buckets of clean water, but they were too late. One man rescued a large number of eels, but found they were bleeding from the gills and they all later died.

75 Flood Warnings in UK: More Rain Forecast as Climate Changes

Pem Charnley — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:16:36 +0000

The UK’s Environment Agency has issued flood warnings. The alert follows days of heavy rainfall.

The Agency has a special webpage dedicated to flooding, updated every 15 minutes, and as I type this, the page states the following:

1 severe flood warning

74 flood warnings