Centrica to create 1,500 green and engineering jobs
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Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has announced it is creating 1,500 mostly "green-collar" jobs to build wind farms and low-carbon power plants like nuclear reactors and also to install energy-saving insulation in customers' homes.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: February 27, 2009
The tropics on fire: scientist's grim vision of global warming
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Tropical forests may dry out and become vulnerable to devastating wildfires as global warming accelerates over the coming decades, a senior scientist has warned.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: February 16, 2009
Green energy from hot rock technology gets double boost
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Hopes of unlocking the vast amounts of renewable energy trapped deep underground in hot rocks have received a double boost, with Google.org and, separately, the Australian government putting significant funds into the technology.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 20, 2008
Bordenham Arboretum
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Bordenham Arboretum is a collection of over 2700 trees set in 156 acres of Worcestershire countryside with 11 pools, four miles of footpaths and a working farm. In addition there is an award-winning visitor centre set in the hillside overlooking the Big Pool.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: July 21, 2008
At-Bristol
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Explore-At-Bristol is one of the UK’s most exciting hands-on science centres.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: July 21, 2008
The Booth Museum of Natural History
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Including over half a million specimens, natural history literature and information extending back over three centuries, the museum has a fantastic range of skeletons, not to mention dinosaur and whale bones.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: July 21, 2008
Millennium Seed Bank
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One of the largest international conservation projects ever undertaken, the Millennium Seed Bank collaboration aims to safeguard over 24,000 plant species worldwide against extinction and to secure the future of the UK's native flowering plants.
Source: bescenta
Date Published: July 21, 2008
