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Ensuring a swimming site is safe is key to getting people using it. That means giving people timely information about water quality. Ian A Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Nicky Morrison, Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia and Germany funding will lay the groundwork for two gigawatt scale green hydrogen projects in Australia, and a ground-breaking electrolyser technology.

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"World-first" solar methanol plant that will tap into Port Augusta solar thermal project one of four green fuel projects funded by Australia and Germany.

The post “World first” solar methanol plant to feed off Port Augusta solar thermal project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The more hard surfaces we build, the more stormwater we need to drain. Auckland must future-proof its urban design as climate change bites. Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Modibodi and Bonds say they avoid using PFAS chemicals, which break down slowly over time and have unclear health impacts

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Australian manufacturers of period underwear have denied using “forever chemicals” in their products following a class-action lawsuit in the US, while experts say more research is needed into the compounds and their potential health impacts.

Thinx, a US manufacturer of menstrual hygiene products, announced last week that it had reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit over allegations “regarding the presence of short chain per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (‘PFAS’)” in its underwear.

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Gorne Wood is a rare surviving fragment of an old forest and provides habitat for wildlife such as slow worms and endangered hedgehogs

Schools had cake sales and staged protests, supporters did sponsored bike rides and walks, musicians held fundraising concerts, and a theatre group wove the story into a performance piece. Children even sent in their pocket money.

And on Friday, they saw the results when the residents of Brockley, south-east London, proudly announced they had won a race against time to raise the £100,000 to buy Gorne Wood, the closest surviving patch of ancient woodland to the City of London, from developers.

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Residents of New Zealand's largest city assess the damage on Saturday as emergency workers go house to house to carry out welfare checks. Auckland was deluged on Friday, with three people confirmed dead and a fourth missing. More heavy weather is expected on Sunday, forecasters have said.

• New Zealand flooding: three dead and one missing as Auckland hit by record rainfall 

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The more the climate warms, the heavier the storm rainfalls will become. The Auckland emergency shows how urgently adaptive measures are now needed. James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As nations squabble at the UN’s maritime agency (IMO) over a headline global climate target for shipping, governments are doing better at making smaller-scale arrangements that cut across historic rich-poor divides and are widely seen as essential for decarbonising the sector.

Carbon credit developer and intermediary South Pole will not immediately sell recent-vintage offsets from a major African REDD+ project as the firm reassesses the initiative’s emissions baseline, the company said Friday after an investigative report argued the undertaking over-credited tens of millions of GHG reductions throughout the past decade.

Both financials and regulated entities pared back their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions this week, while they slightly boosted their holdings of RGGI Allowances (RGAs), according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Washington’s Department of Ecology (ECY) filed its response on Thursday denying allegations brought forward in a December lawsuit from an independent power producer, which requested equal protection under the law and asked for similar relief granted to local plants under the state’s recently launched cap-and-invest scheme, court documents showed.

A summary of legislative, regulatory, and policy action on carbon, clean fuel standard, and clean energy markets at the US federal and subnational levels this week, including a 100% zero-carbon power bill in Minnesota.

Adam McKay also selling walk-on role in next film, vintage Marvel comics and basketball cards

It may smell like pure gasoline, but it could now help Just Stop Oil. The director of Anchorman is selling the film’s original Sex Panther cologne (“Yep, it’s made with bits of real panther, so you know it’s good”) to raise money for climate protesters.

The prop is just one memento being auctioned from the personal collection of Adam McKay, who was also behind the climate satire Don’t Look Up, to raise money for the Climate Emergency Fund.

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An EU's proposal for a voluntary carbon removal certification scheme lacks sufficient rigour to ensure soil carbon credits are not overstating their climate benefits, according to research commissioned by the German government that recommended against using such credits for offsetting purposes.

Lawyers argue judgment to end wild camping without landowner’s permission may be flawed

A landowner who successfully overturned the right to wild camp on Dartmoor may have to return to court after the national park announced it was seeking permission to appeal against the decision.

Alexander Darwall, who bought 1,620 hectares (4,000 acres) of the national park in 2013, took the park authority to the high court, arguing that the right to wild camp without a landowner’s permission never existed. Earlier this month, a judge ruled in his favour, ending the decades-long assumption that the activity was allowed.

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A competition to deplete the invasive, warty amphibian has attracted plenty of contestants – who take it deadly seriously

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The sun has set south-west of Brisbane and Linda Kimber marches off into a paddock dragging a shopping trolley lined with plastic behind her and shining a head-torch in front.

Metres to her left, Jo Davies walks a parallel trajectory into the gathering gloom, also carrying a customised carrier – hers a large dog-biscuit bag slung on rope with a downpipe offcut protruding from its sealed top.

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Czech group Creditas is expanding into the UK, with the acquisition of InterGen which provides about 5% of UK power generation capacity via four gas-fired facilities.

European carbon extended its rally for a third day on Friday morning, climbing to its highest in a month as the market speculated whether recent short covering has been overtaken by investors building new long positions, while gas prices fell for a fifth day as the supply outlook continues to improve.