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energy and technology had a big week, with Scotland pushing ahead with a plan to harness more energy from tidal and wave power than the Dungeness B nuclear station in Kent. Plans for carbon capture and storage coal plants also took a step closer, while a London high-rise building prepared to become the world's first with wind turbines built into its fabric.• Ten sites named in £4bn
UK marine energy project• London landmark building will generate 8% of its energy needs• Climate activists predict direct action against Scotland's 'Kingsnorth'• Carbon capture storage will 'generate 100,000 jobs and £6.5bn a year'• Solar PV has failed in
Germany and it will fail in the UKClimate changePolling this week suggested fewer Americans now believe climate change is a threat, while Damian Carrington analysed whether such a fall is a temporary blip. In the UK, Ed Miliband and the government were rebuked by the Advertising Standards Authority for the language in two adverts which used nursery rhymes to push the message of action on climate change.• Nearly half of Americans believe climate change threat is exaggerated• Slide in climate change belief is a temporary glitch• Chinese PM rebuts criticism over Copenhagen role• Climate change adverts draw mild rebuke from advertising watchdog• Almost 10% of Europe's butterflies face extinction, report warns• IPCC under fire in blogosphere for 'sealevelgate'MultimediaWildlife from spider monkeys in the Amazon to stag beetles in the UK featured in this week's galleries and video. We also took a trip to the top of London's new Strata tower to see work progessing on the three wind turbines at its peak.• In pictures: Protected
species in the Amazon's Cristalino state park• Video: Saving the stag beetle• In pictures: ...
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