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Pylons could go ahead in national parks fear CPRE
Posted by Telegraph: Louise Gray, on June 19th, 2011
Telegraph: Nearly 300 miles of power lines will be needed over the next decade to connect new power stations to people's homes.
This could mean at least 1,000 pylons through areas of great natural beauty.
At the moment the National Grid, is consulting on whether it is possible to bury some of the cables underground.
But the Campaign for the Protection for Rural England (CPRE) and the Campaign for National Parks fear the body in charge of the country's electricity network is not taking underground cables...
Dirty Dozen invasive species named
Posted by Telegraph: Louise Gray, on April 27th, 2011
Telegraph: British Waterways identified 12 speciesknown as the 'Dirty Dozen' that are suffocating plants and fishes in rivers and ponds across the country.
Most of the plants were introduced to the country from the far East as ornaments for people's gardens including floating pennywort, water fern, Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, Australian swamp stonecrop and Himalayan balsam. But they are now pests that suck the oxygen out of ponds, drown out other plants and can even break up concrete.
Introduced...
Climate change could happen much faster than previously thought
Posted by Telegraph: Louise Gray, on January 14th, 2011
Telegraph: The US study predicted that if society continues burning fossil fuels at the current rate, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide could rise from the current level of 390 parts per million (ppm) to 1,000 by the end of this century.
The last time the world had such high levels of carbon dioxide temperatures were on average 29F(16C) above pre-industrial levels. Evidence has been found of crocodiles and palm trees at the Poles and only small mammals were able to survive.
Jeffrey Kiehl, of the National...
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