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Work with a team to develop new soil carbon projects, execute project management outcomes for optimal soil carbon sequestration, provide a high level of ongoing service to farmers and other landowners, as well as collect and maintain data according to best practice procedures.

This role will have dual responsibility of securing new carbon projects and building a pipeline of environmental projects across Queensland.

Phil Davies leads a global campaign to claim ownership of the planet by improving its atmosphere.

We identify a few harmless spiders you've probably seen around the house and backyard — and a few that are best avoided. Lizzy Lowe, Postdoctoral researcher, Macquarie University Samantha Nixon, PhD, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The president-elect will on the whole seek a return to the status quo ante – a relief to US allies

Donald Trump is a “symptom of malaise, and decline, and decay” in the US, his former top Russia expert Fiona Hill has observed. If some countries have thus seized upon his presidency as an opportunity, many have been horrified.

Few US elections were watched quite as anxiously as this one around the world. Widespread relief at Joe Biden’s victory is evident. Much foreign policy, unlike domestic, can be enacted by executive order, without the backing of the Senate. At the most basic level, he will be a president who is patient enough to read a report and knowledgeable enough to understand it; who grasps that America cannot prosper alone; who does not lavish praise on dictators while humiliating democratic allies; who listens to his own intelligence services over Vladimir Putin; and who will entrust Middle East policy to seasoned officials rather than his son-in-law.

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Record auction price for New Kim beats last year’s €1.252m for Armando, another Belgian

A two-year-old Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim set a world record of €1.6m (£1.4m) at an auction that ended on Sunday, the online auction house said.

Offers for the pigeon had already hit €1.32m in the past week, surpassing the previous record of €1.252m set in March 2019 for another Belgian pigeon, Armando. They then went higher in a frantic last 30 minutes of bidding on Sunday.

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Nasa says we're now in the new "operational" era of commercial astronaut taxi services.

‘Good old days’ of low gas prices long gone making role as ‘transition fuel’ unfeasible, Grattan Institute reports

The gas industry will inevitably decline as an energy source for industry and homes due to both economic and environmental issues, and will not deliver the Morrison government’s promised “gas-led recovery”, a new report finds.

The analysis by the Grattan Institute said most of the cheap gas on the east coast had already been burned and what remained would become increasingly expensive, undermining the case for its increased use as a “transition fuel” on the path to a low-emissions future.

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Evidence is not so much in the number of tropical storms the Atlantic has seen, but in their strength, intensity and rainfall

Paddling in a canoe through the flood waters left by Hurricane Eta in his rural village near the north coast of Honduras, Adán Herrera took stock of the damage.

“Compared with Hurricane Mitch, this caused more damage because the water rose so fast,” said Herrera, 33, a subsistence farmer who is living on top of a nearby levee with his wife and child while they wait for the water to recede. “We’re afraid we might not have anything to eat.”

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Boris Johnson’s much vaunted 10-point plan to ‘build back green’ is in doubt as government coffers face unprecedented pressure

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Boris Johnson’s plans to relaunch his premiership with a blitz of announcements on combating climate change and the creation of tens of thousands of new green jobs are meeting stiff resistance from the cash-strapped Treasury, the Observer has been told.

Senior figures in Whitehall and advisers to the government on environmental issues say negotiations on the content of a major environmental speech by the prime minister are still ongoing between No 10, the Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy with just days to go before Johnson delivers the keynote address.

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The NSW government's renewable plan signals the death knell for many coal generators, and even the Loy Yang generators in Victoria will be struggling by 2030.

The post NSW renewable energy plan seals death warrant for six gigawatts of coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Funding will support thousands of jobs, as part of a green recovery from Covid, the government says.

Farm to supply skins to make handbags and shoes would be one of the biggest in Australia under plan approved by Northern Territory government

The high-end French fashion brand Hermès wants to build one of Australia’s biggest crocodile farms in the Northern Territory that would hold up to 50,000 saltwater crocodiles to be turned into luxury goods such as handbags and shoes.

But the proposal has come under fire from animal welfare groups, who say other fashion brands have moved away from using exotic animal skins on cruelty grounds. Advocates told Guardian Australia they had concerns about the welfare of the crocodiles, and that farming animals for luxury goods was “no longer fashionable.”

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Authorities are taking up arms against aggressive birds contrary to the advice of experts, who say relocation is the best way to protect both the species and humans

When Victorian man James Glindemann sat down just outside his local mall to enjoy his Chinese takeout, he was happily surprised to see a magpie, and greeted the bird: “How are you going?”

Magpies are one of Australia’s most intelligent and loved birds, and Glindemann’s reaction is a common one. In 2017, they were voted favourite in the Guardian/Bird Life Australia’s bird of the year poll.

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PM to announce measure amid raft of new environmental policies, reports say

Boris Johnson is understood to be planning to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars within a decade, with reports that the ban will be brought forward by five years.

It follows the prime minister moving the cut-off date from 2040 to 2035 in February.

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Accreditation process putting off builders and installers from plan to improve energy efficiency of homes in England

The government’s plan to insulate England’s draughty homes is faltering because builders and installers are failing to sign up, leaving thousands of households unable to access the £3bn green home grants.

Offering up to £5,000 – or £10,000 for those on low incomes – for energy efficiency measures such as insulation and heat pumps, the scheme is intended to help people save on gas and electricity bills and cut carbon emissions, as well as creating thousands of green jobs. It was unveiled in July as part of an economic rescue package for the coronavirus pandemic.

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Research reveals how ground-nesting birds frequently scared from nest by off-lead canines

There is only one thing more terrifying for a nesting bird than a person walking nearby: when that two-legged beast is joined by a four-legged companion.

A study of how ground-nesting birds are disturbed on beaches in Spain has revealed how they are almost always scared from their nests by passing off-lead dogs, but seem unperturbed by motorbikes, helicopters and low-flying planes.

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AGL unveils plans to replace a major gas generator in South Australia with a 250MW big battery and the longest storage capacity in Australia to date.

The post AGL to build Australia’s longest duration big battery in South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Researchers in Australia say they have created an improved model to predict the future price of carbon allowances in the EU ETS and to use that data to guide corporate decarbonisation investment decisions.