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Floating a new idea for waste
8:50am Wednesday 28th July 2010
BUSINESS is buoyant for a boat builder from Hampshire after it floated the idea of building dinghies out of its waste.
‘We’ll cut carbon footprint by 20%’
11:26am Wednesday 28th July 2010
A FIVE-year strategy for cutting carbon emissions in Hampshire as part of a battle against climate change has been backed by council chiefs.
‘Too soft’ over toxic pollution at Eling Wharf
7:00am Friday 23rd July 2010
COUNCIL chiefs have been accused of being too lenient with a company that owns a large area of polluted land.
Sholing win Water Design Challenge
9:20am Wednesday 21st July 2010
Students from Sholing Technology College in Southampton won a contest in a pioneering project to stop people wasting water.
Huhne calls for Europe to increase cuts in greenhouse gases
12:15pm Thursday 15th July 2010
A HAMPSHIRE MP has today joined forces with his European counterparts to call for a cut in greenhouse gases.
Council’s carbon footprint the biggest in region
4:49pm Wednesday 14th July 2010
THE largest carbon footprint in the south belongs to Southampton, new Government figures have revealed.
Coffee and drugs could be 'changing sea-life behaviour'
6:20am Wednesday 7th July 2010
WASHING up your coffee mug could be damaging sea-life, Hampshire scientists claimed today.
Lanterns’ blaze risk
7:00am Wednesday 30th June 2010
REVELLERS are being urged not to release Chinese lanterns in the New Forest amid fears that they could cause a major blaze.
Inquiry calls after refinery oil spill
9:35am Tuesday 22nd June 2010
A CONSERVATION group has called for an investigation after 20 barrels of oil spilled into Southampton Water from a refinery pipeline.
Could oil spill disaster happen here?
9:33am Monday 21st June 2010
Barack Obama this week compared the Gulf of Mexico oil leak to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With two major oil operations on the banks of Southampton Water, PETER LAW asks if it could happen here
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