Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Hydropower

How to heat your home for free ... with boiling water from a mile underground
Daily Mail | 21 Mar 2011
If all goes well, the people and businesses of Newcastle will, within a couple of years, receive their heating and hot water almost gratis courtesy of this ancient heat source.

Is Newcastle in hot water? Scientists begin drilling beneath city in plan to harness renewable energ...
Daily Mail | 23 Feb 2011
The £900,000 project is being carried out by a team from Newcastle and Durham universities who hope to discover a natural source of hot water below the surface of the city.

Project finds floating wind turbines cost effective
Energy Saving Trust | 12 Oct 2010
Offshore floating wind turbines could be built across the UK's shoreline after a project found that the renewable energy technology is cost effective. A research project by the Energy Technologies Institute and an energy consortium found that floating wind turbines situated in deep water can generate a large amount of energy through stronger and more consistent wind speeds.

Three Gorges water plan postponed
BBC | 05 Nov 2009
A plan to allow the Three Gorges Dam's reservoir to reach its full height is delayed due to lack of water, officials say.

Drought | Hydropower

Green energy goal to boost EU jobs, economy: study
Yahoo! News | 02 Jun 2009
The European Union will boost economies and create an additional 410,000 jobs if the bloc meets its target of getting one fifth of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, a new report shows.

Hydropower | Renewable Energy

Huge Bolivian glacier disappears
BBC | 12 May 2009
One of Bolivia's most famous glaciers, once the world's highest ski run, has almost disappeared, scientists say.

Hydropower | Climate Change

Fuel-cell car rally opens Norway's hydrogen highway
Yahoo! News | 11 May 2009
Norway opened a 560 kilometer (350 mile) "hydrogen highway" on Monday with more than a dozen hydrogen-powered cars rallying along a scenic route between its capital city Oslo and North Sea oil hub Stavanger.

Energy Conservation | Energy Efficiency | Hydropower

U.S. windpower industry eyes government mandate for growth
Yahoo! News | 06 May 2009
Lost financing, low prices for natural gas and political uncertainty have stymied a potential boom in the U.S. wind power industry this year.

Hydropower

Stimulus plan seeks to boost wind and solar energy
Yahoo! News | 23 Feb 2009
(Reuters) - The $787 billion (542 billion pounds) stimulus package to help revive the U.S. economy includes billions of dollars in tax breaks, financial incentives, loan guarantees and grants to boost wind and solar energy.

Energy Efficiency | Hydropower | Renewable Energy

Defiant Argentine glacier thrives despite warming
Yahoo! News | 03 Feb 2009
Climate change appears to be helping Argentina's mighty Perito Moreno glacier, which is thriving in defiance of the global warming that is shrinking its peers.

Hydropower | Global Warming

Biofuels bottom of the heap in impact study
SCIDEV.NET | 07 Jan 2009
An ambitious attempt to rank future energy sources according to myriad repercussions of their use has found biofuels to be the most undesirable option.

U.S. carbon output slower than thought by 2030: EIA
Yahoo! News | 17 Dec 2008
U.S. energy-related emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 2030 will be 9.4 percent less than forecast last year as renewable energy develops and prices cut demand, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Energy Efficiency | Fossil Fuels | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Hydropower | Renewable Energy

New agency to be global 'voice of renewables'
SCIDEV.NET | 15 Dec 2008
A new agency to be launched next month (26 January) in Bonn, Germany, aims to promote a swift transition towards the use of renewable energy worldwide.

Energy Efficiency | Hydropower | Renewable Energy

Climate change experts 'lose faith' in renewable technology
Guardian Unlimited | 10 Dec 2008
Support for renewable energy technology to fight global warming is weakening in the face of worldwide economic problems and the true scale of the carbon reductions required, a survey published today has suggested.

Carbon Storage | Hydropower | Climate Change | Global Warming

UN suspends leading carbon-offset firm
Nature | 09 Dec 2008
Emissions trading rocked as Norwegian company is left in limbo.

Clean Development Mechanism | Environmental Impacts | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Hydropower

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 1.4 percent in '07
Yahoo! News | 03 Dec 2008
U.S. emissions of gases blamed for warming the planet rose 1.4 percent last year as acute weather pushed consumers to crank up heaters and air conditioners and cut output from hydropower generation, the federal Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Fossil Fuels | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Hydropower

Report questions value of carbon-offset deals
Yahoo! News | 02 Dec 2008
Europe's greenhouse gas market has shown that investments by rich countries into clean-energy projects in poor nations are not always the best way to cut emissions blamed for global warming, the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress reported on Tuesday.

Clean Development Mechanism | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Hydropower | Global Warming

Green energy plans to be announced
This is London | 23 Nov 2008
The Environment Agency will this week announce plans to produce enough green energy on its sites to power a city the size of York.

Fossil Fuels | Hydropower

Power supergrid plan to protect Europe from Russian threat to choke off energy
The Times | 12 Nov 2008
A supergrid of power supplies to protect Europes energy from the threat of a Russian stranglehold will be announced today.

Energy Efficiency | Hydropower

California Study Shows High Cost Of Renewable Power
Planet Ark | 10 Nov 2008
LOS ANGELES - If California expands its renewable power generation to be a third of electricity delivered in the state by 2020, it may cost $60 billion, the state's utility regulator said in a report issued on Thursday.

Hydropower | Nuclear Power

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