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Plastic from take-out food is polluting the oceans - study
Sri Lanka’s worst ever maritime disaster reveals the true cost of our identity crisis | Sandali Handagama
We must find a way to embrace shipping, the ocean and our place in the world without shackling ourselves to unpayable foreign debt
Growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1990s, it was drilled into me from an early age that my island was destined to be a maritime hub. At school, I was taught that Sri Lanka was once the heart of the maritime Silk Road, a network of trade routes that connected the east and west from 130BC to the mid-1400s.
My textbooks were filled with tales about how Sri Lanka’s strategic positioning and rich natural resources were so prized that it was consecutively colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and British empires for almost four centuries.
Continue reading...Shark attack: boy flown to hospital after being bitten while snorkelling near Coral Bay in WA
The 10-year-old was snorkelling at Five Finger Reef near Coral Bay when a two-metre bronze whaler bit him on the foot
A young boy has been flown to hospital after a shark bit him on the foot while he was snorkelling near Coral Bay in Western Australia.
The 10-year-old was attacked by a two-metre bronze whaler at Five Finger Reef, south of the remote town, about 11am on Friday, the state’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said.
Continue reading...Telstra inks new wind farm PPA as it prepares to launch energy retail offer
The 58MW Crookwell 3 wind farm will go ahead in Goulburn after a power purchase agreement underpinning the project was signed by Telstra.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia’s biggest wind farm takes shape
Tobias Geiger from Westwind talks about the challenges of bringing the country’s biggest wind project to market.
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Matt Canavan suggested the cold snap means global warming isn't real. We bust this and 2 other climate myths
“Not worth the harm:” Neoen says ESB reforms should be abandoned
Neoen delivers scathing review of ESB market reform proposals, saying they have been rushed and should be abandoned before doing more harm.
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Two massive offshore wind farms proposed for Bass Strait
Two massive offshore wind projects proposed for either side of Bass Strait, as the technology pipeline grows to more than 25GW in Australia.
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RenewEconomy launches Offshore Wind Farm Map of Australia
RenewEconomy launches its Offshore Wind Farm Map of Australia, the latest in a series of important map references for clean energy technology.
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Australia has 38GW of green hydrogen in pipeline, but major cost falls needed
Australia has huge pipeline of green hydrogen projects, but subsidies will be needed to bring cost down to targeted $A2 per kilogram.
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Poorer nations 'more focused on sustainability'
Backlash against 'frightening' tests on whales
CP Daily: Thursday June 10, 2021
Why it's the end of the road for petrol stations
NA Market: CCAs extend spring bull run with more speculative buying, as RGGI prices gain after auction
Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are dead wrong: Bitcoin does not incentivise clean energy
Bitcoin mining has formally entered its greenwashing phase. Things are getting messy, and they're going to get even messier - and we pay the price.
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Lake Mead: largest US reservoir falls to historic low amid devastating drought
The reservoir will be at its lowest since the 1930s when the Hoover dam was built, and officials expect levels to get worse
Levels in Lake Mead – the largest US reservoir by volume – fell to historic lows on Thursday, as the region continues to face the effects of a devastating prolonged drought.
Stationed on the main stem of the Colorado River in the Mojave along the Arizona-Nevada border, Lake Mead was formed with the construction of the Hoover dam, which generates electricity for areas in Arizona, California and Nevada. It provides water for urban, rural and tribal lands across the south-west.
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