LONDON, May 4, 2021 − The high fatality rate which the cooling systems of two British nuclear power stations may impose on marine life is worrying environmentalists, who describe the heavy fish toll they expect as “staggering”. The two stations, Hinkley Point C, under construction on England’s west coast, and Sizewell C, planned for the eastern […]
Paul Brown, Climate News Network
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Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say
LONDON, January 14, 2021 − One of the key technologies that governments hope will help save the planet from dangerous heating, carbon capture and storage, will not work as planned and is a dangerous distraction, a new report says. Instead of financing a technology they can neither develop in time nor make to work as claimed, […]
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Fracking pumps up public’s climate fears
LONDON, Oct. 17, 2016 – Public opposition to pumping water and chemicals into the ground to extract gas from shale − the technique known as fracking − is growing even in the countries whose governments are most in favour. Although only four countries – France, Bulgaria, Germany and Scotland – have an outright fracking ban […]
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Climate warnings masked by propaganda of fossil fuel industry, failure of politicians to act
LONDON, Sept. 30, 2016 – A rise in world temperatures of 1.5°C degrees can no longer be avoided, according to the world’s leading climate scientists, who say that the majority of people have yet to wake up to the stark realities and dangers of climate change. In a devastating summary of the crisis the world […]