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South Australia had lowest cost of supply in main grid in October
South Australia had lowest average spot prices for electricity in Australia's main grid in October as wind and solar provide bulk of state's demand over the month.
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Coalition’s carbon market plans at risk from low quality “grey” credits
Carbon price jumps, but long term clouded by Taylor's climate policy review and the threat of low quality "grey" credits for big polluters.
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Dingoes found in New South Wales, but we're killing them as 'wild dogs'
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Fishery collapse ‘confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy'
Common pesticides found to starve fish ‘astoundingly fast’ by killing aquatic insects
The Silent Spring prophecy that pesticides could “still the leaping of fish” has been confirmed, according to scientists investigating the collapse of fisheries in Japan. They say similar impacts are likely to have occurred around the world.
The long-term study showed an immediate plunge in insect and plankton numbers in a large lake after the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides to rice paddies. This was rapidly followed by the collapse of smelt and eel populations, which had been stable for decades but rely on the tiny creatures for food.
Continue reading...Suspension of Britain’s EUA allocations, auctions to continue despite Brexit delay
Norman Myers obituary
Environmentalist who first calculated the damage caused by clearing tropical rainforests to raise cattle for hamburgers
Norman Myers, who has died of dementia aged 85, was the scientist who first calculated that every year, worldwide, an area of tropical rainforest the size of England and Wales was burned, bulldozed or felled to ranch beef for US hamburgers.
That, more than 40 years ago, was not orthodoxy. Satellite imagery over the next decade proved him right. He also predicted – and explained his reasoning, in his second book, The Sinking Ark (1979) – that species were being extinguished at the rate of one a day, rather than the accepted figure of one a year. This too was challenged, and later Myers conceded he had been wrong; he should have said 50 species a day.
Continue reading...Birds are liberation that never ends. But enjoying their company is also to know an inconsolable sadness | Richard Flanagan
The fairy penguins under my shack are gone, and soon the forty-spotted pardalotes and swift parrots will join them. Our children knew these birds; their children will not
I am not a twitcher’s binocular strap, but I adore birds. I watch birds for hours. Their freedom and joy move me. Something in their play and way suggest minds far different than ours. A man I once met who kept cockatoos told me that you have to be careful because they fuck with your head.
And they do.
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