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'Chaos, chaos, chaos': Amazon still ablaze as Brazil dismisses 'fuss' over fires
A 2,000km road and river odyssey through rainforest reveals consensus from all sides: Bolsonaro has spurred a record burning season and ushered in a new age of wrecking
From afar it resembles a tornado: an immense grey column shooting thousands of feet upwards from the forest canopy into the Amazonian skies.
Up close it is an inferno: a raging conflagration obliterating yet another stretch of the world’s greatest rainforest as a herd of Nelore cattle looks on in bewilderment.
Continue reading...Climate crisis drives Tunisia fishing trade into troubled waters
As dwindling stocks sound the death knell for their industry, fishermen face difficult and often dangerous choices
Boats gently knock together along the dock in Kelibia. The gentle melody of their wooden hulls colliding has been heard in this small Tunisian fishing village for decades. In the midday sun, fishermen feed scraps to stray cats in a scene that seems almost preserved in amber.
But the fishing trade is in its death throes here, as the pressures of the climate crisis impact on global fish stocks and put new social pressures on the fishermen themselves.
Continue reading...England’s tree of the year 2019 – the Woodland Trust shortlist
The Woodland Trust’s annual competition highlights and celebrates the best trees in the country. Once again it’s being supported by the award-winning horticulturalist and TV personality David Domoney. A carefully chosen panel of judges spent a day debating the positives of hundreds of trees to find the very best England has to offer.
Here you can see the 10 shortlisted trees. Go online at woodlandtrust.org.uk/treeoftheyear to choose your favourite, which will be named England’s tree of the year for 2019
Continue reading...JinkoSolar named top-rated bankable PV module supplier by PV-Tech
Jinko Solar today announced that it was one of only four PV module suppliers to receive a “AA” bankability rating from PV-Tech & Solar Media, Ltd.
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Vet says badger culls caused 'immense pain'
Australia’s main grid hits new peak of 41 per cent wind and solar
Wind and solar hit new record share of output in Australia's main grid on Saturday.
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Brigalow solar farm caught up in Queensland bush fires
Queensland solar farm at centre of legal battle with state government narrowly avoids being damaged by fire, in one of more than 60 blazes across the state.
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Do Australia’s coal generators need another subsidy?
Australia's coal fired generators already enjoy huge subsidies. Do they need any more?
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Survival of the chickest: the unlikely battle of the urban brush turkey
Australian researchers are trying to understand how the birds, which receive no parental care, survive against all odds in big cities
The chicks are considered “hors d’oeuvres” of the bird world and now Sydney scientists need public help trying to understand how brush turkeys survive against the odds in urban environments.
Brush turkeys’ six-month breeding season kicked off in July and a team of researchers from the University of Sydney and Taronga Zoo have put out a call for community sightings of nesting mounds, breeding activities and chick hatchings across New South Wales and Queensland.
Continue reading...ARENA backs wave power generation pilot project off King Island
Australian Renewable Energy Agency will tip $4 million into a $12.3 million trial of Australian made wave energy technology off the coast of King Island, Tasmania.
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USS Neosho shipwreck detected
2019 essay contest targets energy efficiency and social justice
Gill Owen Essay Prize Australian writers are invited to share their insights about fairness and efficiency in the energy sector for a share of $5000 in prizes.
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Environment laws have failed to tackle the extinction emergency. Here's the proof
Using forest therapy to restore the person and the landscape
Defeat malaria in a generation - here's how
Wildlife photographer of the year – highly commended images
The Natural History Museum has released a selection of highly commended photographs from a range of categories. The winners will be announced on 15 October and the exhibition opens on 18 October
Continue reading...Nature and the brain, the restorative power of natural places, Backflip and work-life balance
The 'zombie fungus' and the climbing dead
Solar panels: Thousands of customers complain
Energy firms plan UK's first carbon-neutral 'industrial cluster'
Humber drive aims to shrink carbon footprint of UK’s most polluting industrial zone
Energy companies have ignited multibillion-pound plans for the UK’s first carbon-neutral “industrial cluster” in the Humber.
An alliance of companies including National Grid, Drax and Norway’s state energy company, Equinor, are leading a campaign to shrink the carbon footprint of Britain’s most polluting industrial zone.
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