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Energy and EV software company Gridcog raises $6.4m for Euro trip
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Life at Norway’s remote arctic fox breeding station – in pictures
As part of the state-sponsored programme to restore arctic fox populations, Norway has been feeding the animals for nearly 20 years, helping boost numbers from as few as 40 in Norway, Finland, and Sweden, to about 550 across Scandinavia today. ‘Without these conservation measures, the arctic fox would surely have become extinct in Norway,’ said Bjørn Rangbru, a senior adviser on threatened species with the country’s environment agency
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Sovereign wealth fund drops Indonesian conglomerate over threatened species risk
Dozens of koalas allegedly killed or injured during plantation logging on Kangaroo Island
Exclusive: Ex-employees of Australian Agribusiness Group allege dozens of injuries occurred as blue gums cleared for agricultural use, claims which the company rejects
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Dozens of koalas have been killed or injured and left for dead during logging of blue gum plantations in South Australia, according to former employees of the harvesting company and a conservation organisation that tried to save the marsupials.
Ex-employees of the company managing the plantation estate Australian Agribusiness Group said they tried to save at least 40 injured koalas and saw about 20 that had been killed as plantations on Kangaroo Island were cleared for agricultural use.
Continue reading...Clover Moore attacks NSW government and EPA over ‘regulatory failure’ before asbestos crisis
City of Sydney lord mayor reveals testing of potentially contaminated mulch has cost $200,000 with remediation costs likely to be ‘substantial’
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Sydney’s lord mayor, Clover Moore, has accused the New South Wales government and the state’s environment watchdog of a “massive” and “costly” regulatory failure over the ongoing asbestos contamination crisis.
City of Sydney councillors gathered at an extraordinary general meeting on Monday to discuss how contaminated mulch came to be used across numerous city parks. Moore revealed testing alone had already cost the council more than $200,000.
Continue reading...‘Haven’t seen anything like it’: shock as great white shark washes up on NSW beach
Four-metre shark euthanised after becoming beached on shore at Kingscliff on Tweed Coast
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A great white shark washed up on to a beach on the New South Wales north coast, shocking locals and attracting a crowd of beachgoers.
The 4m shark was seen swimming close to shore near Kingscliff beach on the Tweed Coast on Monday morning, with lifeguards tracking its progress until it was beached.
Continue reading...We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it | George Monbiot
On a planet getting hotter and drier by the year, governments are wilfully ignoring a looming crisis
There’s a flaw in the plan. It’s not a small one: it is an Earth-sized hole in our calculations. To keep pace with the global demand for food, crop production needs to grow by at least 50% by 2050. In principle, if nothing else changes, this is feasible, thanks mostly to improvements in crop breeding and farming techniques. But everything else is going to change.
Even if we set aside all other issues – heat impacts, soil degradation, epidemic plant diseases accelerated by the loss of genetic diversity – there is one which, without help from any other cause, could prevent the world’s people from being fed. Water.
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SwitchedOn Podcast: Why a home battery is a good idea if you have rooftop solar
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The National Electricity Market wasn’t made for a renewable energy future. Here’s how to fix it
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St Baker battery factory eyes 2GWh of production in Philippines
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Yabby traps and discarded fishing tackle can kill platypuses - it’s time to clean up our act
Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?
Mystery of giant star sand dunes solved
New York offshore wind projects back on track – at nearly double the original cost
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Australia’s emissions are stuck, despite best efforts of renewables
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Australian First Nations group seeks interest in developing Fiji’s carbon industry
Biggest offshore wind farm in world scraps green hydrogen proposal
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