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Geldof and Colman urge Home Office to reconsider climate activist’s deportation
Exclusive: Actors and musicians condemn ‘harsh deportation’ of Dartford Crossing protester Marcus Decker
Leading actors and musicians including Bob Geldof, Olivia Colman and Emma Thompson are calling on the Home Office to reconsider the “harsh deportation” of a climate activist who is serving one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for peaceful protest.
Along with the musicians Brian Eno and Jacob Collier, they are among about 600 artists who are urging James Cleverly to withdraw the deportation order issued to Marcus Decker.
Continue reading...Weather tracker: Tropical Cyclone Kirrily brings 170km/h gusts to Queensland
Cyclone downgraded after dense fog hits parts of the US and India while drought affects Philippines and southern Africa
Tropical Cyclone Kirrily made landfall on the coast of Queensland on Thursday night (local time). Kirrily originated as a tropical low over the Coral Sea, and gradually intensified over several days. The tropical cyclone then quickly intensified on Thursday, reaching a category 2 system by 10am AEST, and category 3 by 3pm, producing gusts of 170 km/h (105mph). As Kirrily moved inland five hours later, it left more than 34,000 homes and business without power in Townsville. However, the cyclone was quickly downgraded back to a category 1 by midnight.
Earlier in the week, dense fog developed from Montana all the way south to the Gulf of Mexico, reducing visibility on Tuesday to less than a quarter mile for many. The combination of last week’s arctic blast, followed by the introduction of warmer air from the south this week, allowed water vapour to condense closer to the surface, which is also known as advection fog. Dense fog reappeared on Thursday morning, affecting just under 99 million people from North Dakota across to central Pennsylvania, and as far south as New Orleans.
Continue reading...Japanese trading house to develop woody biomass project in Indonesia
The week in wildlife – in pictures: penguins, fireflies and a swan causing havoc
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Continue reading...Domestic wood burners having a deadly impact in outside areas
Deaths due to wood-burning stoves are comparable to those of ‘black summer’ bushfires, says Australian study
Scientists are starting to count the health cost of heating our homes with wood. One study, in Canberra in Australia, has found that deaths from everyday exposure to smoke from wood burners is comparable with those during the unprecedented “black summer” bushfires of 2019/2020.
Prof Sotiris Vardoulakis, part of the research team and director of the Healthy Environments and Lives (Heal) National Research Network, described winter in the city: “When I take my two boys to play basketball outdoors in winter, or when we walk the dog before dinner, there is always a smell of wood smoke in the air.”
Continue reading...Spot the punk rockers: hope for waxwing boost in annual UK bird count
People encouraged to record sightings of mohican-sporting birds in RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend
The scale of this waxwing winter will be revealed this weekend when people are encouraged to spend an hour recording the birds they see in their gardens, balconies, parks and school grounds.
The spectacular migratory, mohican-sporting birds have been spotted across Britain during the colder weather and will be recorded alongside more familiar sparrows, blackbirds and robins in the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch.
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Lag in Swiss funding revives additionality questions over Thai Article 6 carbon sales
CP Daily: Thursday January 25, 2024
RSPB Birdwatch 2024: Fewer wild birds visiting UK gardens
Atmos plans four-hour big battery in W.A. wheatbelt in further boost to storage
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WCI Markets: WCA prices plummet below CCAs amid Washington programme uncertainty
Washington House committee advances WCI linkage, debates speculator study bills for cap-and-invest
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Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish
Ingenuity: Damage puts end to ground-breaking Mars helicopter mission
Ratings agency cuts EUA forecast but sees full 2024 recovery from price drop
Flying foxes pollinate forests and spread seeds. Here’s how we can make peace with our noisy neighbours
US DOE allocates $254 mln to industrial decarbonisation
Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds
Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels
Toxic emissions from the Canadian tar sands – already one of the dirtiest fossil fuels – have been dramatically underestimated, according to a study.
Research published in the journal Science found that air pollution from the vast Athabasca oil sands in Canada exceed industry-reported emissions across the studied facilities by a staggering 1,900% to over 6,300%.
Continue reading...Mother of girl whose death was linked to air pollution sues UK government
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah opens claim against environment, health and transport departments in pursuit of ‘right to clean air’
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who became the first person in the UK to have air pollution cited on their death certificate has launched a high court claim against the government.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is suing three government departments for compensation for personal injury arising from the illness and premature death of her daughter Ella. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Transport and the Department of Health and Social Care have all been named as defendants in the claim.
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