No matter who or what caused it – human or natural causes, global warming is a fact and we should do our best to prevent any of “deadly” effects. With that in mind a group of artists from England came up with an interesting public art project meant bring awareness into our lives. Dubbed the Watermarks project, it uses official UK government predictions and large-scale projections to show possible water levels of a potential future flooding onto buildings. Now in Bristol, we’d definitely love to see the Watermarks caravan in New York or San Francisco. It has an amazing message isn’t it? [via StyleCrave]

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Covering a distance of over 3700 miles in air, purely powered by biofuel is something that even the aviation industry would be proud of. But UK’s Skycar Team is trying to do that in a car with a giant fan, a powerful engine and a parachute.

Skycar is probably the most exciting green vehicle that is waiting to make it out on to the streets sometime in the future and the fact that it is not just a concept, but the real deal is something that is far more alluring.

Skycar will aim to prove its potential with a flight of over 6000 Km from London to Timbuktu. They use a lightweight Para-Wing that is filled by a huge fan built into the back of the vehicle to achieve theoretical airspeeds of 100 mph and thanks to a light-weight chassis it seats two people and goes some 3000 feet high. The distance to be covered is a daunting and probably a fitting challenge to Skycar as a successful journey will prove its true worth.

The car converts from flight mode to ground mode and vice-versa in just 3 minutes and can run completely on biofuel when needed (for ground, it can run on ethanol using a Yamaha R1 engine).

This is truly one eco-journey that we wish the very best as the success of Skycar could usher us into a clean new era where we just lift up from the traffic of rush hour and fly home ala Jetsons style! Check out the gallery after the break. (more…)

Hundreds of Swans that normally migrate from the cold Arctic to the warmer locations in England each year have decided that there is no necessity to go all the way across to UK on a 1,864 kilometer trip as the Siberian winter is still not as cold as it should be.

Wildlife experts were expecting 300 migrating Bewick's swans to have arrived by late October

23,000 swans that visit different parts of Europe in the winter have not yet started their migratory flight back to places like Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre in UK because the winters this time around in Siberia are simply not cold enough to force them to take the long journey.

Scientists across the globe view this as another effect of the Global Warming phenomenon, which is the reason for warmer winters in Siberia.

The birds normally move out to various places in Europe seeking out shelter by following an in-built biological pattern that is apparently triggered by temperature changes. With global warming keeping Siberia warmer than usual, the birds do not feel a necessity to move out as yet.

Apart from disappointing bird lovers across Europe, this new development could mean that within the next few years, the swans would forget their intuitive migratory patterns that are passed on genetically. If a cold Siberian winter strikes them at that point, they might just not know what to do.

Temperatures have been rising dramatically in the Arctic during the last decade and while some dismiss it as an over-reaction, there surely can be no accusations made that the Swans are a part of the conspiracy theory as well! – via The Independent

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Drax, a major energy companies in the UK has revealed that it plans to build three biomass stations in the UK, at a cost of £2 billion. All of the biomass stations will run on biological waste from forestry or industries such as woodchips, straw, sunflower seeds, peanut husks and agricultural products such as sugarcane, hemp or willow.

Drax power station at midnight

As the prices of fossil fuels are continuously on the rise, this effective step will provide an enormous boost to UK’s target of producing 20% of its energy from renewable resources by 2020.

When ready, the three biomass stations will produce 15% of Britain’s total energy, to suffice 2million homes. They will be built in collaboration with the engineering giant – Siemens, with two of the plants going at Hull near Yorkshire while the third venue still remains undecided.

However there is slight concern over the sustainability of these stations because it is being felt that we might “sacrifice” plants for fuel, rather than eating them. With food, soon to be major problem, that’s a tough decision, don’t you think? – via Telegraph

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Global warming has affected the climatic conditions of Britain, making it a warmer place now. This weather change has encouraged many species of bugs and arachnids to make Britain their home. Among these is the extremely poisonous Black Widow spider that has traveled all the way from America to settle in the UK to make their way through food and plant imports.

Insects like the Asian Harlequin are already endangering the native species of Britain. In the past few years people have been sighting the black widow in bananas and other fruits, however it has been clarified that it is not the deadly Black Widowm but a less harmful cousin of this species.

The species that had originated from southern Europe has built large colonies in Plymouth and Devon and is expected to spread in greater numbers across other parts of southern Europe.

According to Stuart Hine of the Insect Identification Service at the Natural History Museum in London, a cold spell could wipe out the fast spreading species. But he also declared that if the weather continued to remain warm then other species would also make their way through and the black widow would be no exception.

However a new technique is under way to deal with this pest mania which is causing serious damage to Britain’s vegetation. – via DailyMail