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Wanted: UK bison rangers, no previous experience expected
Project using large beasts to help restore woodland offers unprecedented job opportunity
Can you handle a beast as heavy as a small car, that can hurdle high fences from a standing start, and is a peaceful bulldozer for biodiversity?
If you’re not intimidated by the weightiest wild land mammal in Europe, you could become Britain’s first ever bison ranger.
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Clean air: Coal burning ban and wet wood restrictions planned
SK Market: Year’s first KAU auction fails to sell out
Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather
Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years
The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme weather impacts of the climate emergency, scientists have reported.
More than 90% of the heat trapped by carbon emissions is absorbed by the oceans, making their warmth an undeniable signal of the accelerating crisis. The researchers found the five hottest years in the oceans had occurred since 2015, and that the rate of heating since 1986 was eight times higher than that from 1960-85.
Continue reading...Analysts see upside potential for Australian carbon credits
Philippines' Taal volcano, one year on – in pictures
When Taal volcano, a popular tourist site in Batangas, erupted a year ago 5,000 people fled the island. It’s still considered dangerous. The government bans former residents from returning but some still live there in tents
Continue reading...Birdwatch: the Kentish plover – once a scarce migrant, now a real rarity
One of these compact little waders has been hanging around my patch for a year, but it’s not easy to spot
Some rare birds stay put for just a few hours; others stick around for months, or even years. But that doesn’t always make them easy to see.
Since a Kentish plover was first found in Somerset on Boxing Day 2019, it has been seen occasionally on Stert Island, opposite my coastal patch. It disappeared for the summer, then returned in October to spend the winter with a flock of ringed plovers. But at a distance, it can be very hard to pick out.
Continue reading...Increased CO2 levels could be risk to young lungs, Australian scientists find
Australian researchers, in a world first study, find predicted future levels of CO2 concentrations could harm the development of young lungs.
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Worried about Earth's future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp
Climate Change? Nothing to see here, says ESB
If you assume climate change is playing a significant role in the Energy Security Board’s deliberations over the optimum design of the future market, you would be wrong.
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Sand clogs up Australia’s only operating carbon capture project
Carbon storage at Chevron's massive Gorgon LNG plant hampered by sand contamination which may result in increased greenhouse gas emissions.
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BHP and Toyota to partner on light electric vehicle trial
BHP to partner with Toyota Australia on trial of new light electric vehicle (LEV) at its Nickel West operations in Western Australia.
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Origin seeks fossil fuel leases in 'incredibly fragile' Queensland channel country
Exclusive: applications to explore Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre basin submitted by energy company last July but previously unreported
The energy company Origin wants to search for fossil fuels across 225,000 hectares of the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre basin in Queensland’s channel country – part of one of the world’s biggest free-flowing river systems.
The company is waiting to hear if the Queensland government will grant the applications for 10 petroleum leases, which were submitted in July last year but have not been previously reported.
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Australia’s carbon prices dip, but traders expect more pressure to strengthen emissions targets
Australia's carbon prices fell throughout 2020, but 2021 could be a turning point for international climate policy, Reputex analysis suggest.
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Energy Security Board reforms need to be ambitious to secure a low emissions future
An ambitious approach to managing thermal plant exits could deliver reliability ensuring emissions are reduced within a reasonable timeframe.
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Male seahorse gives birth to an army of offspring – video
A male White's seahorse has been filmed giving birth to dozens of babies ... yes, a father giving birth. Seahorse females deposit their eggs into a pouch in the front of the males, where the eggs are fertilised.
More than 100 seahorse babies have been born in a Sydney aquarium as part of a captive breeding program to help save the endangered White's seahorse. The breeding program is a collaboration between Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, Fisheries NSW and the University of Technology Sydney
Continue reading...Australia the only developed nation on world list of deforestation hotspots
WWF report finds area six times the size of Tasmania has been cleared globally since 2004
Australia remains one of the world’s hotspots for deforestation according to a new report by WWF, which finds an area six times the size of Tasmania has been cleared globally since 2004.
The analysis identifies 24 “deforestation fronts” worldwide where a total of 43 million hectares of forest was destroyed in the period from 2004 until 2017.
Continue reading...National Trust aims to save Yorkshire abbey from climate-linked flooding
A £2.5m scheme in the Skell Valley hopes to protect Fountains Abbey and the city of Ripon
Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, was originally set up by 13 Benedictine monks seeking refuge from the more extravagant, rowdy monks in York. Eight hundred years later, the abbey ruins and its gardens face another threat: the climate crisis.
The Skell Valley, where the ruins stand, has been flooded several times in recent years, raising fears that the UK’s largest monastic ruins are at risk of irreparable damage. Now a £2.5m National Trust project – aided by a £1.4m lottery grant – has been greenlit to improve the landscape’s resilience to changing weather.
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