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9th of July 2010\:
Researchers have found the earliest archaeological evidence of a tortoise being kept as a family pet in Britain\, at a castle in Staffordshire.
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"\;More than 27\,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico\, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one -- not industry\, not government -- is checking to see if they are leaking\, an Associated Press investigation shows."\;
Read the full Associated Press article at \;nola.com\:
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T095119Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100714T141200Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020203 UID:http://www.operationnoah.org/node/277 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.operationnoah.org/node/277 SUMMARY:David Atkinson DESCRIPTION:David Atkinson was Canon Chancellor of Southwark Cathedral and Diocesan Missioner from 1992-6. He went on to become Archdeacon of Lewisham 199-2001\, the Bishop of Thetford in Norwich Diocese until his retirement in 2009. His most recent book is \;"\;Renewing the Face of the Earth\: theological and pastoral responses to climate change"\;. David currently holds the post of Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark\, doing odd bits for the diocese in between looking after grandchildren\, and helping Sue on the allotment.
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14th July 2010
"\;If we stick to a 20 per cent cut\, Europe is likely to lose the race to compete in the low-carbon world to countries such as China\, Japan or the US &ndash\; all of which are looking to create a more attractive environment for low-carbon investment."\;
Chris Huhne\, Norbert Röttgen and Jean-Louis Borloo advocate the EU moving to a higher carbon-cut target in the FT\:
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15th July 2010 \;
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"\;Dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico have been ordered to leave the site of the BP oil spill by the US government as Tropical Storm Bonnie gathers pace."\;
Forecasters say the tropical sotrm could reach the edge of the spill by early Saturday. The BBC reports that rilling on a relief well has already been suspended for up to two weeks\:
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"\;Peter Voser\, Shell chief executive\, said BP&rsquo\;s Gulf of Mexico deep-water oil spill was a tragedy but declared that Shell did not as yet need to change the way it operated\, pending the results of the accident investigation"\;
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"\;NOAA study draws on up to 11 different indicators of climate\, and found that each one pointed to a world that was warming owing to the influence of greenhouse gases"\;
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"\;No matter\, smiled Barack Obama and other leaders through clenched teeth\: this would not stop the US and its partners moving forward with plans of their own. Oh\, really? The whole enterprise\, from top to bottom\, has now collapsed"\;
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"\;the Senate is left to vote on an anemic energy bill of such remarkably limited scope that it could have been passed during the Bush era."\;
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"\;The blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico gushed 12 times faster than the government and BP estimated in the early weeks of the crisis and has spilled a whopping 4.9 million barrels\, or 205.8 million gallons\, according to a more detailed analysis announced late Monday."\;
New numbers from the Flow Rate Technical Group nudge the statistical scale of the Gulf oil disaster up even further reports the Washington Post\:
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"\;Jack Rudloe has launched Operation Noah's Ark\, using his four-acre facility an hour south of Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens &ndash\; everything from sharks to starfish\, shrimp and batfish &ndash\; in an environment that includes a grassland and duplicates high and low tides."\;
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