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Scientists to hunt mysterious 'ghost' particles
Long duration sodium and flow batteries to be trialled to shift solar in remote microgrids
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Nuclear ranks last on list of good investments by big institutions
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Could Labor dissent on energy see Plibersek’s veto on offshore gas projects restored? | Paul Karp
Internal lobbying has added safeguards to a power for the resources minister to water down consultation requirements
The Albanese government has kept a lid on dissent over changes to the approval process for offshore gas projects, but a late internal push has seen the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, regain a power to prevent consultation rules being watered down.
While the resources minister, Madeleine King, had labelled claims she was taking over environmental approvals a “conspiracy theory”, widespread opposition from the Greens, the crossbench, First Nations activists and environmental groups spurred an informal Labor pro-climate group into action.
Continue reading...Ernie the owl to retire after 30 years at Warwick Castle
African Verreaux’s eagle owl to make final flyover during Easter holidays before move to Yorkshire Dales
Any night owl who has spent 30 years of working all day would be dreaming of retirement.
Such is the case for Ernie, an owl with a “big personality”, who will be quitting after delighting guests at Warwick Castle for three decades.
Continue reading...Which will melt away first, the snow or the arts? | Stewart Lee
Keir Starmer will need to make it affordable to be an artist, because the value of art is beyond financial metrics
Nineteen years ago now, I was asked to perform my standup high in the Colorado Rockies at the Aspen comedy festival, a trade fair for the American comedy industry patronised by wealthy locals. In super-affluent Aspen, I discovered, to my horror, economically uncompetitive service industry workers were homed in special “employee housing projects”, like castrated catering cyborgs from a Russian science fiction novel, sleeping in pods, dreaming of electric sheep. But today that system seems benign compared with the housing poverty of Sunak island.
In Aspen, the famous comedians were domiciled in luxury hotels. I was in a cheap motel on the edge of town, where I breakfasted daily with a quartet of equally undervalued underground comic book writers, regarded as witless savants nonetheless capable of providing content by the predatory industry vampires. Daniel Clowes told me the contents of his Oscar ceremony goody bag – the film of his Ghost World comic was nominated – were worth more than everything he had earned as a writer to that point.
Stewart Lee’s Basic Lee is at Cambridge Arts theatre 15-16 April
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Continue reading...Farmers double the value of back paddocks with renewable power deals
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Most Australians would pay more for home with solar and batteries, not so sure about EV chargers
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Cercarbono publishes final biodiversity crediting protocol
High rural house prices force locals into renting
German DAC deployment to come with high costs, extensive resource requirements, researchers warn
Emitters, speculators add to their holdings across North American carbon markets
IEA undermining energy security in its pursuit of net zero, say US legislators
‘Tourists ask a lot of questions’: Great Barrier Reef guides face up to bleaching tragedy
Tour boat divers have long borne witness to mass bleaching events. Once reluctant to wade into discussions about global heating, they are now opening up
“You can see it on their faces,” says scuba diving instructor Elliot Peters. “There’s definitely some remorse and sadness.”
Peters works at a resort on Heron Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef and, in recent weeks, he’s had to tell curious guests why so many of the corals around the island are turning bone white.
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