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Kellogg’s signs with solar farm to take NSW operations 100% renewable
Kellogg’s Australia to become the latest corporate entity to commit to sourcing the equivalent of 100 per cent of its electricity needs from renewables.
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BHP casts doubt on renewables as it commits $US400m to cut emissions
BHP voices concerns about land use of renewables in establishing $US400m fund to reduce emissions across its entire value chain.
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New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details
Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
The horrific consequences of rubber's toxic past
Extinction Rebellion protesters confront politicians at US Capitol
Climate crisis group members gluing themselves to doorways to block members of Congress from attending evening vote
Protesters from the climate crisis group Extinction Rebellion are causing disruption at the US Capitol in Washington, confronting politicians and glueing themselves to doorways in order to block them.
Six protesters blocked two doorways connecting the Cannon building to the US Capitol in an attempt to stop members of Congress from attending an evening vote.
Continue reading...Queensland shortlists 10 big renewable and storage projects for CleanCo contracts
Queensland announces 10 wind, solar and battery storage projects that will compete for contracts with newly formed CleanCo.
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CP Daily: Tuesday July 23, 2019
US House committee plots “all-market” climate plan for mid-century decarbonisation
'I want to be part of the solution': Warringah MP Zali Steggall
Greta Thunberg speech: French MPs boycott teen ‘apocalypse guru’
Ohio legislature greenlights controversial bill subsiding nuclear, phasing out RPS
Uniper, Rolls Royce hit in latest round of UK govt’s EU ETS penalties
Specieswatch: the ‘UK rainforest’ threatened by gardeners
Sphagnum moss is a vital carbon store but peat bogs are being dug up to fuel our love of horticulture
Left to its own devices, Sphagnum fallax, together with a large number of close relatives, will form dense mats of plants on wet ground and become deep peat bogs. These bogs create a habitat for a vast number of creatures, the most prominent of which are dragonflies and frogs but there are literally thousands of others, mostly microscopic.
Related: Plantwatch: is sphagnum the most underrated plant on Earth?
Continue reading...There's a simple way to drought-proof a town – build more water storage
Each special in its own way: bird spotting on Australia's islands
Sue Taylor has visited spots as remote as Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean and as familiar as Phillip Island in Victoria in search of rarities
- The Guardian/Bird Life Australia bird of the year poll will be back in October
There’s something very romantic about islands. For a start there’s the wonderful isolation, the feeling of relaxing remoteness, the total absence of bustling city commuters. Picture tropical palm trees waving above pristine white beaches, lapped by sparkling turquoise seas. Whatever the reason, everyone loves an island. People go to Rottnest in Western Australia to admire the quokkas, to Norfolk Island to soak up the fascinating history and bucolic scenery, and to Christmas Island for the red crab migration.
I am a twitcher and for me it’s always the birds. I go to Rottnest for terns, waders and red-capped robins, to Norfolk for parakeets, gerygones and California quail, and to Christmas Island for Abbott’s boobies, frigatebirds and rare vagrants. I’ve seen some fantastic vagrants (birds outside their usual range) on my five visits to Christmas Island. Apart from all the exciting endemics (birds that are unique to one place), I’ve seen 12 extraordinary vagrants, including such rarities as a red collared dove, a Malayan night heron and, best of all, a corn crake.
Continue reading...Tokyo 2020: Meet the Olympic and Paralympic robots
UK’s post-Brexit plans risk undercutting EU on carbon pricing, experts warn
Animals failing to adapt to speed of climate crisis, study finds
Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ lag between human-driven seasons shift and animals’ behavioural changes
The speed of climate disruption is outstripping many animals’ capacity to adapt, according to a study that warns of a growing threat to even common species such as sparrows, magpies and deer.
Scientists behind the research described the results as alarming because they showed a dangerous lag between a human-driven shift in the seasons and behavioural changes in the natural world.
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