Around The Web

Meet the latest organisations to achieve carbon neutral certification

Department of the Environment - Fri, 2017-11-03 12:26
The University of Tasmania has been certified carbon as neutral against the National Carbon Offset Standard as part of its commitment to being a sectoral and community leader in sustainability.
Categories: Around The Web

Rooftop solar installer caught out for fraudulent STC creation

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-11-03 12:12
Clean energy regulator takes action against solar company found to have installed rooftop PV systems without compliant Certificates of Electrical Safety.
Categories: Around The Web

Oil Search’s Alaskan oil play ignores climate reality

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-11-03 12:07
Just days out from the start of the latest climate talks, PNG-based Oil Search has delivered a slap in the face to its Pacific neighbours.
Categories: Around The Web

Is your company disclosing its climate risk?

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-11-03 10:46
Investors and activists have new ammunition to encourage public company disclosures on climate change risks and opportunities. They should use them.
Categories: Around The Web

Swan Hill solar farm secures debt funding to go “merchant”

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-11-03 10:42
Impact Investment Group secures $16.5m from specialist outfit Infradebt for 19MW merchant solar farm in northern Victoria.
Categories: Around The Web

Scientists discover critically endangered new species of orangutan

ABC Environment - Fri, 2017-11-03 07:26
There are fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutan left in the wild.
Categories: Around The Web

Australia among the world's worst on biodiversity conservation

The Conversation - Fri, 2017-11-03 05:03
Australia is among seven countries contributing to more than half of the world's biodiversity loss. Yet next month, a crucial network of long-term research sites will lose funding. Noel D Preece, Adjunct Principal Research Fellow at Charles Darwin and, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
Categories: Around The Web

New orangutan species discovered in Indonesia

BBC - Fri, 2017-11-03 03:59
Scientists have just identified a new great ape species - and it's already in danger.
Categories: Around The Web

The UK's race to get its own nuclear safety inspectors

BBC - Fri, 2017-11-03 03:04
Highly-specialised staff are needed to take over from European nuclear regulators after Brexit.
Categories: Around The Web

New great ape species identified in Indonesia

BBC - Fri, 2017-11-03 02:19
The apes in question were only reported to exist after an expedition into Sumatra mountains in 1997.
Categories: Around The Web

'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza

BBC - Thu, 2017-11-02 22:01
Scanning technology suggests there is a large, previously unknown cavity in the ancient monument.
Categories: Around The Web

Vic Liberal Party presents Morrison with lump of brown coal, Yates ejected

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2017-11-02 21:41
Former CEFC boss Oliver Yates says he was ejected from Victorian Liberal Party fundraiser after a Senator presented Treasurer Scott Morrison with a lump of brown coal, in thanks for his work.
Categories: Around The Web

Nature@work photo competition winners - in pictures

The Guardian - Thu, 2017-11-02 20:00

The European Environment Agency invited European citizens to capture how nature benefits them in a competition called Nature@work. Here are the winning images, announced this week

Continue reading...
Categories: Around The Web

Six things we learnt at cycling's Six Day London

The Guardian - Thu, 2017-11-02 18:30

As the cycling event returns to the capital for the third year we get the trackside word on the races, the music and which riders like to party hardest

The lights are low and the music is loud. The beer is flowing and some of the world’s best riders are whipping round the wooden boards of Lee Valley velodrome in one of the many furious and fast paced races of the Six Day London event, now in its third year.

Night after night, thousands of people crowded to the velodrome to watch elite riders fight it out for laps and points to a background of flashing lights and a clubbing soundtrack. And like a club, the action is not just centre-stage; there’s something going on in every corner. Here are six lessons from Six Day London.

Continue reading...
Categories: Around The Web

Climate change 'will create world's biggest refugee crisis'

The Guardian - Thu, 2017-11-02 16:01

Experts warn refugees could number tens of millions in the next decade, and call for a new legal framework to protect the most vulnerable

Tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen, according to a new report.

Senior US military and security experts have told the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) study that the number of climate refugees will dwarf those that have fled the Syrian conflict, bringing huge challenges to Europe.

Continue reading...
Categories: Around The Web

Country diary: mighty oaks and many, many, doomed acorns

The Guardian - Thu, 2017-11-02 15:30

Hollingside wood, Durham city Acorns’ chances of survival make lottery odds look attractive as most will be eaten by insects, birds and small mammals

This wood was last clear-felled in 1799, then replanted with beech and oak. Silver birch, horse chestnut, sycamore and holly have since found their own way in. On the southern slopes the oldest trees, straight-trunked with lofty crowns, tower above the understorey like the pillars and vaulted roof of a cathedral, inspiring a sense of reverence.

The raised voice of a distant dog-walker seemed almost like sacrilege, breaking the stillness of a tranquil afternoon. I sat on a fallen branch under an oak, to listen to the sounds of the woodland.

Continue reading...
Categories: Around The Web

Huge private sector investment puts Paris climate target in reach, says report

The Guardian - Thu, 2017-11-02 15:30

Global investment could hold the key to fighting climate change, with one trillion dollars already invested in solutions such as renewables and energy efficiency, says International Finance Corporation


At least one trillion dollars are being invested globally in ways to reduce the threat of climate change, including renewable power, energy efficiency, and public transport around the world.

Continue reading...
Categories: Around The Web

ESB to use inflated costs for wind and solar to justify NEG

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2017-11-02 14:17
Energy Security Board to use vastly inflated costs of wind and solar to justify its National Energy Guarantee. By using prices around 30-40 per cent above actual costs, will support its argument for little new wind and solar to be built in the coming decade.
Categories: Around The Web

Let’s be honest: Australia is well behind on renewables

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2017-11-02 14:04
Australia’s fossil fuel share of electricity generation is higher than that of our peers. This chart is ugly for Australians who care about doing our bit in the 21st century.
Categories: Around The Web

RES drops 758MW wind farm proposal, amid Victoria boom

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2017-11-02 14:02
Anti-wind resistance appears to win the day as RES Australia confirms Penshurst Wind Farm no longer an ongoing development opportunity.
Categories: Around The Web

Pages

Subscribe to Sustainable Engineering Society aggregator - Around The Web