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Flights of fancy: starling murmurations – in pictures

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-07 20:04

The Danish photographer Soren Solkær first saw starling murmurations as a child near Wadden Sea in the south of the country. After photographing the phenomenon for three years in the marshlands of Denmark, Solkær’s new work, Starling, published by Edition Circle, expands his scope to trace the birds along their migration routes to the Netherlands and Italy

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Australia’s biggest mining region needs 10x the renewable commitment made at COP28 to decarbonise

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-07 17:59
The International Energy Agency's recommendation that renewable energy installation be tripled by the end of the decade would be a drop in a vast ocean at one of Australia’s more emissions-intense regions, and the scale needed is not yet close to get decarbonisation across the line.
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Starry skies over South Downs national park: astrophotography competition – in pictures

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-07 17:10

This year, photographers had the chance to win up to £100 for capturing a striking image of the night sky over South Downs national park, England, in one of three categories: Starry skyscapes, Nature at night and Magnificent moon

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Environment charities lag behind other UK sectors in racial diversity, study finds

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-07 17:00

‘Huge disconnect’ between employers’ public ambitions on diversity and their actions, say workers

Workers at environmental charities have said bold words on inclusion are not being matched with action, as research shows the sector still lags far behind others in racial diversity.

Only about one in 20 workers in the environmental charity sector identified as an ethnic minority last year, according to a survey of organisations, compared with one in eight in the wider UK workforce.

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Oil spills and fading glaciers: a beautiful world in peril – in pictures

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-07 17:00

A huge retrospective of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s work showcases the terrifying, but oddly beautiful marks we can leave on the planet

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Cambodia to study carbon credit tokenisation, eyes exchange

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-07 16:33
The government of Cambodia has decided to study the potential of combining the concept of securities token offering (STO) with carbon credits, with an exchange reportedly to be introduced later this year.
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UK minister for building pylons loses role after campaigning against them

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-07 16:00

Andrew Bowie wrote last year that concerns among his constituents about new pylons were ‘a priority’

The UK minister responsible for the building of new pylons has been quietly reshuffled after it emerged he had campaigned against the structures in his own constituency.

The energy minister Andrew Bowie had been in charge of energy networks, including building pylons, since he took up his post in February 2023.

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New Zealand court waves through legal action against emitters

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-07 13:29
New Zealand’s Supreme Court has permitted legal action to proceed against the country’s biggest emitters after finding that companies may be liable for their contributions to climate change.
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Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-07 10:59
Campaign group River Action say the Environment Agency did not enforce rules to stop fertilisers and chicken manure getting in river.
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If plants can pick fungi to help fight pests and diseases, it opens a door to greener farming and ecosystem recovery

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-02-07 10:57
Despite its 500-million-year history, the plant-fungi alliance holds mysteries that, once unravelled, could revolutionise agriculture and ecosystem management. Adam Frew, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros, Research Fellow, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä Jeff Powell, Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Natascha Weinberger, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Stephanie Watts-Fawkes, Research Fellow, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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'Godfathers of wind' share engineering's QEPrize

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-07 10:50
A Dane and a Briton are lauded for their critical contributions to the development of wind power.
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Current reporting frameworks aid compliance, but prepare for evolving climate regulations -experts

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-07 09:42
A discussion regarding the growing landscape of climate regulations around the world saw panelists consider the implications of the rise in mandatory disclosures, while experts laid out best practices for companies in a webinar on Tuesday.
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Unique tools used to monitor leakage from CO2 sequestered under US lake

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-07 09:40
Scientists at a US university have deployed research buoys to independently monitor a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project that pumps CO2 under a lakebed, in an attempt to allay local opposition to the project.
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