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- ‘Ukraine is a false justification’: America’s destructive new rush for natural gas Mon, 20 Mar 23, 5:30pmAs the war in Ukraine sent natural gas prices skyrocketing, liquid natural gas (LNG) plants are springing up all along the fragile Gulf Coast – seriously harming not just local communities but the world’s ability to keep...
- Sea Level Alarmism Unravels As Earth’s Coastlines Are Observed Expanding Since 1984 Sat, 20 Nov 21, 9:00amClaims of dangerously accelerating sea level rise posing an imminent global threat to coasts have once again been challenged by real-world observational evidence.
- UK coastal waters valued at £200bn by ONS Wed, 7 Apr 21, 1:15amEstimate of marine assets balloons as offshore wind soars alongside seaside’s importance for recreation, carbon capture and wildlife
- Wind power windfall: crown estate to sell offshore windfarm rights Thu, 19 Sep 19, 9:55amTreasury in line for millions as auction starts for seabed leases on sites able to supply 6m homes
- Wind power: crown estate opens new bids for seabed rights Thu, 19 Sep 19, 9:55amOffshore leasing auction starts for 7GW capacity project that could supply 6m UK homes
- Oil firm aims to extend Dorset coast drilling despite marine life risk Fri, 15 Feb 19, 1:22amEnvironment groups oppose licence for Corallian Energy extractions along protected coastline running to March
- Coastal flooding and peat bogs | Letters Thu, 29 Nov 18, 4:34amMore than 15,000 buildings were built in coastal areas at significant risk of coastal flooding in the UK between 2005 and 2014, write Tom Spencer and Gerd Masselink...
- Satellite Eye on Earth: January 2016 - in pictures Tue, 9 Feb 16, 10:16pmUS snowstorms, Tasmanian bushfires and Arabian plankton blooms were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
- National Trust aims to 'nurse British countryside back to health' Mon, 23 Mar 15, 11:01amConservation charity, which is one of UK’s biggest landowners, to reverse effects of intensive farming and decimation of wildlife under £1bn plan
- How lack of investment is holding back the progress of marine power Mon, 6 Oct 14, 6:59pmFrederika Whitehead finds out why despite perfect conditions British marine energy has so far failed to make waves
- How lack of investment is holding back the progess of marine power Mon, 6 Oct 14, 6:59pmFrederika Whitehead finds out why despite perfect conditions British marine energy has so far failed to make waves
- Cornwall and Scotland hold UK's wave power potential Wed, 17 Oct 12, 5:00pmCornwall's Atlantic coast and the west coast of Scotland came top in a report which maps sites with the most promiseThe Atlantic ocean off Cornwall and the west coast of Scotland show the greatest promise for generating electricity...
- Record number of radioactive particles found on beaches near Sellafield Wed, 4 Jul 12, 9:29pmSeven beaches contained 383 particles found in 2020-11, while Sellafield insists health risks are 'very low'A record number of radioactive hotspots have been found contaminating public beaches near the Sellafield nuclear...
- Carbon capture leak simulated in sea off Scotland Mon, 14 May 12, 8:25pmThousands of kilos of carbon dioxide will be injected into the seabed to simulate effects of a leak on the marine ecosystemSeveral thousand kilos of CO2 will be pumped into the seabed off west Scotland from Monday to simulate...
- Letters: Nuclear sites, sea-level rise and tsunamis Mon, 12 Mar 12, 8:00amIt seems clear that nuclear facilities will be vulnerable to the effects of global warming (Nuclear power sites face flood and erosion risks, 8 March)...