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Minuscule wasps enlisted to fight off moths in new pest control strategy

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-15 15:00

Rentokil to use the wasps as a sustainable alternative to sprays in museums and homes

The newest recruits for the battle against moths will be the smallest pest control team in town.

Rentokil plans to release entosite parasitoid wasps into the nooks and crannies of museums, heritage sites and homes to stop moth infestations.

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The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-08-15 12:41
This small coastal town’s efforts to reclaim the night skies for people and nature is truly inspirational. Here’s how you can help reduce light pollution and claim your own Dark Sky Place title. Sharolyn Anderson, Research scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Oregon details final considerations for policy changes to its clean fuels programme

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 11:39
Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) revisions will include an insurance mechanism for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects, validation mandates, and changes to third party verification provisions, in addition to carbon intensity (CI) model updates, the regulator confirmed Wednesday.
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Islands in the sky: could steep-sided hilltops offer safe haven to our threatened species?

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-08-15 11:39
Rewilding is helping to save species from the brink of extinction. But reintroducing species to islands or fenced havens have limitations. What if we could use flat topped mesas as well? Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral research fellow in conservation, University of Sydney Thomas Newsome, Senior lecturer in ecology, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Mexico’s Queretaro, environmental markets platform launch national carbon offsetting registry

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 10:35
The Mexican state of Queretaro and a Mexico City-based environmental markets platform launched Wednesday a national carbon credit registry tailored to local conditions, seeking to help facilitate the development of the nation's carbon market.
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ARB offset issuance YTD trails 2023 by 30%

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 10:30
California regulator ARB has doubled offset issuance over the latest three-week period compared to its prior biweekly distribution, yet is 30% behind year-to-date (YtD) levels at the same time in 2023.
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Study correlates IMO regulations’ reduced sulphur emissions to inadvertently accelerate global warming

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 10:17
In regulating sulphur emissions from ships, the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) 2020 regulations may have inadvertently contributed to global warming, according to research released this week.
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UK big business to increase carbon credit spend tenfold, finds survey

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 09:01
Big business in the UK plans to buy much higher volumes of carbon credits than current levels to meet sustainability targets, finds a new survey.
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Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-15 09:01

District councils in low-lying areas say they have cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to fund pumping stations

The costs of preventing major floods caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall have fuelled a growing financial crisis among district councils in low-lying areas of England, ministers have been warned.

Districts in the east of the country say they are having to cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to meet dramatic and unsustainable rises in payments levied to fund pumping stations used to protect communities from flooding.

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Climate standards need to encompass company’s broader influence on climate action -report

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 09:00
Current climate standards don't go far enough to incentivise the innovations needed to deliver on net zero, and should be expanded to include a company's broader influence on the planet, according to a new paper.
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Watch: The Northern Lights seen from space

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-15 08:48
A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora.
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Watch: The Northern Lights seen from space

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-15 08:48
A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the moon setting into streams of aurora.
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If we want more solar and wind farms, we need to get locals on board by ensuring they all benefit too

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-08-15 06:08
The scale of the challenge of hitting Australia’s renewable energy target points to the need for a more standardised and inclusive approach to sharing the benefits than we have seen so far. Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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NGOs plot legal challenge to new gas drilling permit in German North Sea

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 02:36
Several NGOs are plotting legal action against a new drilling permit for gas extraction off the coast of Germany, they announced Wednesday.
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Voluntary carbon removals standard consults on mineralisation storage modules

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 02:25
A voluntary carbon standard focused on durable carbon removals is consulting on two new modules concerning CO2 storage via mineralisation.
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