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1141.World’s coral reefs face major bleaching event this year, US agency warns (2015-02-19)
... Worldwide bleaching of coral would be only third such event in recent history, driven by high ocean temperatures caused by global warming, RTCC reports. 2015 could see coral bleaching on a global scale for the third time in history – and the first in the absence of an El Niño. That is the latest prediction... ...
1142.Fossil fuel industry protests over ‘risky’ assets warning from energy secretary (2015-02-18)
... Oil and gas industry expresses concern in a letter to Ed Davey about his comments on fossil fuel assets becoming unburnable to stop dangerous climate change. ...
1143.Minister’s claims that solar panels harm UK food security are false (2015-02-18)
... Documents from environment secretary Liz Truss’s own department reveal they lack any data to back up claims used to justify removal of subsidies from farm land with solar panels. British food security is not being harmed by the spread of solar panels in the countryside as claimed by the UK’s environment secretary, documents from her... ...
1144.Biofuel from trash could create green jobs bonanza, says report (2015-02-17)
... Advanced biofuels industry could spur hundreds of thousands of jobs across Europe, says new report, but key European parliament vote next week could throw clean fuel ambitions into disarra. ...
1145.Penguins lost ability to taste fish (2015-02-17)
... Penguins can taste only sour and salty food, scientists have discovered. A genetic study suggests the flightless birds lost three of the five basic tastes long ago in evolution. Taste is critical for survival in most animals, but may not matter in the penguin, which swallows fish whole, say researchers in China and the US. ...
1146.Sub-Saharan African countries are failing to plan for climate change (2015-02-16)
... Failure to factor climate change into long-term investment and planning risks leaving countries across sub-Saharan vulnerable to droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea-levels. ...
1147.The truth behind the wind power subsidies row (2015-02-16)
... Do claims in a recent IPPR report that 100 UK wind turbines are receiving unfair subsidies at a cost of £400m to consumers add up? Fiona Harvey investigates. ...
1148.Coastal communities dumping 8m tonnes of plastic in oceans every year (2015-02-13)
... China ranked top polluter as figures suggest total plastic litter ending up in the seas could rise tenfold by 2025. ...
1149.Out of the blue, on the edge of the world, killer whales converge to feast (2015-02-13)
... In the first of a series of special reports on extraordinary marine environments under threat, Guardian Australia’s ocean correspondent visits a ‘pinprick’ in the Southern Ocean where, once a year, a jaw-dropping wonder of nature takes place. ...
1150.UK threatens to hit back at Austria over Hinkley Point legal challenge (2015-02-12)
... UK ministers are warning their Austrian counterparts that an arsenal of retaliatory measures will be launched if Vienna goes ahead with plans to challenge an EU state aid decision approving subsidies for new nuclear reactors at Hinkley point in Somerset. A diplomatic cable from the Austrian embassy in London to Vienna, seen by the Guardian,... ...
