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Cameron urged to pass law to protect Britain’s woodland
Posted by Telegraph: James Edgar on May 27th, 2014
Telegraph: England's woodland is in danger unless David Cameron keeps his promise to pass laws preventing public forests from being sold off, leading conservationists have said in a letter to the Telegraph.
The Government was forced into making a U-turn after hundreds of thousands of people protested against a proposal to sell swathes of the Public Forest Estate (PFE) in 2011.
However, despite an assurance that an independent management organisation for the PFE would be established in statute to hold...
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United Kingdom: Climate change not main cause of floods, scientists suggest
Posted by Telegraph: James Edgar on January 22nd, 2014
Telegraph: Climate change is not the main cause of floods, scientists have suggested.
The debate on whether recent floods were caused by global warming is a distraction from "the things we already know for certain', according to research.
Any links between climate change and flooding are "highly complex' and experts have struggled to make a case for the theory, a study has said, whereas human activity such as building on floodplains is known to make flooding worse.
The Prime Minister told MPs in the...