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Dr John Hewson joins the Goulburn Solar Farm board as Chair
The Goulburn Community Energy Co-op is at the forefront of the renewable industry revolution in Australia. With this community owned renewable energy project the community action group is setting new standards when it comes to the fight against the climate crisis.
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Recycling crisis escalates as another Victorian recycling firm gets waste ban
Phoenix Environmental Group banned by EPA from accepting rubbish at its Coolaroo facility
Another Melbourne recycling company has been banned from accepting rubbish, just days after a major recycling player went into liquidation.
Phoenix Environmental Group has been told to stop accepting waste at its Coolaroo facility – the third time Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority has slapped a ban on the company.
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Warm weather may make 2019 a boom year for butterflies, say experts
Last summer, overall numbers of butterflies in England were up 110% on 2017 figures
The common blue butterfly could be booming in the UK thanks to recent spells of hot weather, according to a conservation charity.
Experts are predicting that the July heatwave and Met Office forecasts for above-average temperatures in August might mean that the common blue has its “best ever summer”, Butterfly Conservation said.
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Coalition wants to embrace nuclear power
Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia's threatened species protection
Whaley Bridge residents refusing to evacuate put lives at risk, says police chief
Derbyshire’s deputy chief constable said there are about 20 properties with residents refusing to leave
A police chief who has been at the forefront of a near disaster in a Derbyshire town has said some residents who refused to leave their homes had put lives at serious risk.
About 400 mainly local people packed a school hall to discuss the damaged dam in Whaley Bridge which is still at risk of collapse.
Continue reading...Britain’s 2,800 dams: why they were built and how safe are they?
England and Wales have about 2,000 dams and there are around 800 in Scotland. These structures were built for a variety of reasons: to make reservoirs that can supply drinking water to nearby towns and cities; to fill local canals; to help farms; and to create places for fishing, sailing and water sports.
In the case of Toddbrook’s dam, it was built in the 1830s to create a reservoir that would provide water for the local canal system. It is still owned by the Canal & River Trust.
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The five: species affected by plastic pollution
Scientists from the University of Tasmania reported last week that plastic ingestion is having a negative impact on the health of flesh-footed shearwaters, a near-threatened species of seabird. The study found that birds that had eaten plastic had stunted growth and a decline in kidney function. Plastic ingestion kills many species, with more than a million seabirds estimated to be dying from it each year.
Continue reading...Counterculture - the environment movement
Do windfarms kill birds? How Australia can limit the impact on threatened species
Bob Brown’s objection to a proposed windfarm draws attention to where renewable energy projects are being built
Do windfarms kill birds? Unarguably, they have and do.
The damage turbines can inflict was infamously highlighted at California’s Altamont Pass, where early industry farms were built in a migratory path. One estimate suggested it killed as many as 1,300 birds of prey a year before changes were made to reduce death rates.
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Losing the fight against fire ants
Whaley Bridge residents allowed to return for 15 minutes
People evacuated from town threatened by damaged dam make ‘controlled’ visits to pick up pets and other essentials
Residents of the Derbyshire town evacuated after a dam threatened to burst have been allowed back into their homes for short, controlled visits to pick up pets and other essentials.
Derbyshire police took the decision to allow one person from each of the 400 Whaley Bridge properties evacuated on Thursday to return for a 15-minute visit on Saturday.
Continue reading...IPCC leaked report: Going vegetarian and controlling land use are key to climate crisis
Scientists in Geneva warn that cutting carbon emissions from cars and factories is not enough
Attempts to solve the climate crisis by cutting carbon emissions from only cars, factories and power plants are doomed to failure, scientists will warn this week.
A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use, which is now being debated in Geneva by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states that it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.
Continue reading...Whaley Bridge: storms forecast as work to repair dam continues
Evacuated residents urged not to return home with damage to structure at ‘critical level’
Emergency services will continue their efforts to prevent a damaged dam from collapsing in Derbyshire, as forecasters warn more bad weather could be on the way.
Water levels at the Toddbrook reservoir in Whaley Bridge have been reduced by half a metre since Thursday but the damage to the 180-year-old structure remains at a critical level.
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Field sound recordings show ecosystems changing fast
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