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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Nano, Nano		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nano, Nano A new paint set to go on sale in Europe in March promises to absorb the most noxious gases from automobile exhaust. Invented by British company Millennium Chemicals, Ecopaint contains spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, suspended in a base of polysiloxane (a silicon-based polymer). Hey, wake up, the good part ...
Topics: air pollution, England, European Union, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Winged Victory Endangered U.K. Bird Coming Back from the Brink of Extinction		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Winged Victory Endangered U.K. Bird Coming Back from the Brink of Extinction Now, for a bit of good species news: One of the rarest birds in Britain, the cirl bunting, has made an impressive comeback from the brink of extinction, thanks to a proactive government plan that pays farmers to maintain their fields in cirl bunting-friendly ways. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds launched the rescue program in ...
Topics: England, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Ghost Busters Contaminated U.S. Ships Cause a Stir in Britain		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Ghost Busters Contaminated U.S. Ships Cause a Stir in Britain Controversy continues to swirl around four highly contaminated former U.S. Navy vessels -- dubbed "ghost ships" -- that are making their way across the Atlantic* to Hartlepool, England, where a British company has a contract to dismantle them. The first two toxin-tainted ships are being towed through the English Channel today, but they won't be b ...
Topics: England, placemaking, toxics, US Navy (all these topics)

London Bridge Is Clearing Up		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
London Bridge Is Clearing Up Traffic in central London fell by roughly 25 percent Monday, the first day of a congestion-mitigation plan that was the controversial brainchild of Mayor Ken Livingstone. Under the plan, it costs about $8 per car to enter central London from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with steep penalties for those who don't pay. About 80,000 people ponied up the money yesterday, while the r ...
Topics: England, London, placemaking, population, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Hot Pea Soup		25 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Hot Pea Soup Fog and rain are as much a part of London as bobbies and Buckingham Palace -- but global warming will change all that over the next half-century, according to a newly released report on the anticipated impacts of climate change on the U.K. capital. The London of the future will likely be sunnier, but don't book your vacation just yet: It could be subject to serious regular flooding, worsening air pollution, and bliste ...
Topics: climate, England, London (all these topics)

Fee: 'Fie,' Foes Fume		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fee: "Fie," Foes Fume Is it a tax or is it not a tax? That's the question in London, where diplomats are up in arms over a proposed daily fee on cars driving into the city center, in order to discourage congestion and clean up the city's air. They say the fee most certainly is a tax, and that therefore embassies should be exempt from it under the 1961 Vienna Convention, which bars governm ...
Topics: air pollution, business, England, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

A Bad Case of Gas		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Bad Case of Gas The Montreal Protocol to heal the ozone hole is the poster child of successful environmental treaties; the general consensus is that as the treaty's targets are met, the ozone hole will disappear, and the earth will be protected from the harmful ultraviolet radiation that leaks through. Not so fast, says the Environmental Invest ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, England, Environmental Investigation Agency, ozone, toxics, Washington DC (all these topics)

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