Tag: England

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  British Drought Turns into Massive Rainfall

  The sale of umbrellas in Britain has jumped by 2,850%--in the middle of a drought.

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  With London Monuments, Artist Shows Just How High Sea Levels Will be in 3012

  Help! This is what rising oceans, due to climate change, will make London look like. Send lifeboats.

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  UK Extends Tax Credit for Electric Vehicle to 2015

  This will help private citizens and commercial fleet operators make the transition to cleaner electric vehicles.

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  First Views of New Green Living Wall on London Tube Station

  Installed by Biotecture, the vertical garden covers one side of the Edgware Road Tube station.

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  Controversy Amongst England's Royals: Prince Philip Says Wind Farms are Useless

  Looks like England's Royals need some family therapy.

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  Fracking Firm Admits It Caused Earthquakes in England

  A UK fracking firm has confirmed that its operations were behind small earthquakes this Spring, but insists there is no cause for alarm.

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  The Week in Animal News: Melting Zombie Caterpillars, Self-Cloning Jellyfish, and More (Slideshow)

  Scientists have made some startling discoveries in the animal world this week -- from a virus that causes caterpillars to turn into melting zombies to a lonely jellyfish that has produced hundreds of clones of itself.

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  Awesome Birdhouse Tricks Drivers Into Slowing Down

  If building a house for local birds is awesome, and getting motorists to drive safer is awesome, too, then retiree Ian Magee may have single-handedly invented one of the awesomest things ever. Faced with a steady stream of

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  Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists' Emails?

  The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling

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  UK Billionaire Pushes Arctic "Mega" Mine: Caribou, Whale & Seal Deaths Expected, "Habitat Will Be Lost"

  Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, is pushing to open an opencast iron ore "mega-mine" inside the Arctic Circle that will include a 150-kilometer railway and two new ports that will bring a ship in every 32

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  A 1955 British Cycling Film Shows the Joys of Countryside Touring

  TreeHugger does a lot of work to promote urban cycling, a major step towards developing sustainable cities. But lest we forget how great a day in the countryside on two wheels can be, this short film from 1955 is the

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  British University Experiments With Online 'Shaming' of Non-Recyclers: Does It Work? Is It a Good Idea?

  If all your friends and peers could see what you were chucking into the trash, would you recycle more? Early reports from a dormitory experiment at England's Newcastle University

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  Exposed Memo Reveals Definite Ties Between Big Oil and Iraq Invasion

  The notion that the Iraq war was really about oil is far beyond speculation -- it floats somewhere in that ambiguous realm between generally accepted and assumed-to-be-fact. So the breaking news that a newly exposed secret memo

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  It's World Health Day: WHO Says The World is Losing Battle to Superbugs

  Here's some great news to mark World Health Day: a new report shows that a gene that causes bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics has been found throughout the water supply in New Delhi. The implications for

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  Buyer Beware: 'Local' Food In Britain Comes From As Far Away As New Zealand, Study Shows

  Shoppers in England and Wales who have been carefully seeking out locally produced foods while making their market rounds came in for a shock this week when a government body

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  Prince Charles Calls Out Climate Skeptics

  Prince Charles has evidently lost his patience with climate change denial. The BBC reports that while speaking at a policy meeting in Brussels, he called out climate skeptics as having a "corrosive" impact on public opinion. He said that such skeptics

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  83% of Brits Believe Global Warming is an Imminent Threat

  England has been hit by unusually cold winters for the last two years -- the cold seasons of both 2009 and 2010 were more frigid than usual. And then there were those hacked climate emails -- which were

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  London's Bike Superhighways Bring 70% Increase in Cycling

  In other words, London's bike superhighways are incredibly successful, as the front-page GOOD story remarks. According to the findings in study by Transport for London, there were 70% more cyclists out