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Gardening in a Changing Climate

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The conventional British garden might well be a thing of the past. As hotter, drier summers are becoming more common and winters are growing warmer and wetter, the kind of…

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Published 2025-09-15
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, gardening, heatwave

Keeping your Home Cool in Heatwaves

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Following up on a previous post, there are quite a few things you can do to keep your home cool during a heatwave. Of course if you have fans or…

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Published 2024-06-03
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, heatwave

How to block Heat during Heatwaves

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New climate research in the science journal Nature* shows how dangerously under prepared northern Europe and especially the UK and Eire are for the consequences of climate change and the…

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Published 2023-09-12
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, heatwave

Extreme heat – cities are struggling

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The World Meteorological Organisation noted last week as Britons flock to their summer getaways that “parallel and stationary heat domes” have meant temperatures would top 40°C in parts of North…

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Published 2023-08-01
Categorised as ActionTagged cities, ecotips, heatwave

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