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Hundreds of climate activists have occupied land at the Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters in protest at its multi-billion pound loans to the oil and mining industries, including firms involved in exploiting Canadian tar sands.

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"Hundreds of people were rescued from homes and vehicles after heavy rain and strong winds brought severe flooding to parts Scotland and Wales yesterday.

Around 100 people, many of them elderly, were rescued from flooded properties in Huntley, Aberdeenshire.

The Grampian fire and rescue service was continuing to search homes in the town today in an attempt to ensure nobody remained trapped."

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"In a heart-racing extract from her new book, Tamsin Omond gives a first-hand account of a diverse, but peaceful group of Climate Camp protesters bonding together when confronted by aggressive riot police"

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Climate change will so dramatically impact Earth's atmosphere that there could be a 20-per-cent increase in the amount of harmful ultraviolet radiation hitting some parts of the planet, scientists are warning.

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Millions of people in Nepal face severe food shortages because global climate change has disrupted weather patterns and slashed crop yields in the Himalayan nation, an international aid agency warned Friday.

Changing weather patterns have dramatically affected crop production in Nepal, leaving farmers unable to properly feed themselves and pushing them into debt, Oxfam International said in a report released in Katmandu.

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The UK police demanded to know the location of the Camp for Climate Action 2009 - this is Climate Camp's response.

THAT is how to send a message. Calmly, reasonably, with good humour and honesty.

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Police today set up road blocks around a music festival site to keep thousands of environmental campaigners away from one of Britain's longest-running festivals.

Up to 15,000 people had begun to gather for the Big Green Gathering in the Mendip hills, Somerset, which was officially due to start on Wednesday. But organisers were forced to cancel it on legal advice yesterday after the police took out an injunction to prevent the festival going ahead.

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