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Collapse of G20 talks sparks fear of ‘backtracking’ on climate pledges
Climate and energy ministers clash over climate finance, methane, shipping, carbon levies and the world’s warming limit at talks in Bali.
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US flood maps outdated thanks to climate change, Fema director says
Deanne Criswell makes admission as ‘extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation’ hits Georgia
Flood maps used by the federal government are outdated, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or Fema, said on Sunday, considering a series of devastating floods caused by excessive rainfall induced by climate change.
Deanne Criswell told CNN’s State of the Union: “The part that’s really difficult right now is the fact that our flood maps don’t take into account excessive rain that comes in. And we are seeing these record rainfalls that are happening.”
Continue reading...Catastrophe, pollution, dirty subsidies, nature capitalism: another week in the climate crisis | Adam Morton
The chance of extreme events is increasing because emissions aren’t slowing down. The hard work to transform the economy has barely begun
You don’t have to be paying much attention to be aware that the climate and environmental crises are not slowing down.
The flooding in Pakistan is estimated to have submerged a third of the country’s habitable land, destroyed more than a million homes, crippled infrastructure, farms and clean water supplies and killed at least 1,200 people. Tens of millions have had their lives disrupted. The fallout will include food and housing shortages and rising disease.
Continue reading...Tanya Plibersek urged to save Gouldian finches from NT defence development
Conservationists call on government to reconsider project near Darwin after 100-plus birds were spotted in bushland marked for clearing
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is being urged to intervene to save a population of endangered Gouldian finches threatened by a defence development in the Northern Territory.
The first stage of clearing has begun to allow a defence housing development in savannah woodlands at Lee Point, in Darwin’s north, having been approved in 2019.
Continue reading...Under Liz Truss, we’ll be careering into petrolhead politics while the world burns | John Harris
It’s a monstrous thought, but politicians who disparage net zero as a ‘new religion’ and wind power as ‘medieval’ are tipped for cabinet posts
What a strange, heady, anxious summer that was. For all the talk by many journalists and politicians about the cost of living crisis as something that will decisively arrive in the autumn, it is already here. At the same time, the landscape of this small corner of northern Europe is parched and straw-coloured, while those terrifying images of flooding in Pakistan have illustrated the climate emergency’s even more nightmarish flipside. The pandemic, it turns out, was merely one more crisis on the way to something completely convulsive: payback for our fragile dependence on fossil fuels, and a way of living that is no longer sustainable. With perfect timing, next weekend will see the return to London’s streets of Extinction Rebellion, whose protests will trigger the usual sneers from climate deniers while hammering home 2022’s awful sense of urgency.
Meanwhile, as if the immediate future is being decided by a TV scriptwriter who specialises in the bleakest comedy, Liz Truss is seemingly about to move into Downing Street, after two months of surreal and largely pointless debate in which the climate crisis has barely figured. She and Rishi Sunak may have paid lip service to the government’s nominal target of achieving net zero by 2050 – but, whatever their other differences, they have largely spoken with one voice on climate policy: the cursory, slightly bored tone of people who think of it as an optional extra.
John Harris is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Animal Rebellion activists stop milk supply in parts of England
More than 100 protesters block and climb on trucks at dairies in the Midlands and southern England
More than 100 supporters of Animal Rebellion stopped the supply of fresh milk across large areas of England in the early hours of Sunday, including Arla Aylesbury, which processes 10% of the UK supply.
It came after the activist group, who campaign for a sustainable plant-based food system, received no response to a letter to Downing Street in August, in which they warned of disruptive action in September unless progress towards their demands was made.
Continue reading...Building a zero emissions grid in US in just 13 years would save $US1.2 trillion
New study from NREL and US energy department estimates up to $US1.2 trillion in savings from switch to net zero grid by 2035.
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A kaleidoscope of colour in Australia’s channel country – in pictures
Photographer Lisa Alexander is based on a merino sheep property near Blackall in south-west Queensland. She believes we are constantly surrounded by beauty, even in the depths of drought, and seeks to capture this in her work
Continue reading...‘We just want the truth’: British coastal towns fight for answers over mystery sealife deaths
Question mark over freeport in Tees Valley after ecological disaster puts communities in the north east of England at loggerheads with the government
Stan Rennie has indelicate hands that aren’t good for typing. He’s not the kind of person who cares much for technology at all.
But over the last year, the fisherman has found himself spending less time outdoors and more time glued to his computer, tapping out stern emails to politicians and researching niche areas of environmental law. “It’s taken over his life,” his daughter Sarah, 36, says.
Continue reading...Endangered whale species off Australia’s south coast is calving less often, study shows
Decades-long research of the southern right whale reveals normal calving times every three years has increased to four to five years
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An endangered whale species found off Australia’s southern coast is calving less often, a decades-long research project has revealed.
The southern right whale usually calf every three years but a Curtin University-led study has found the majority of whales are having an offspring every four to five years.
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Continue reading...Rural economy to be turbocharged by £110m funding pot, farmers' union says
Nasa: Artemis Moon rocket to make second launch attempt
'Impressive rafting skills': the 8-million-year old origin story of how rodents colonised Australia
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‘De-growth’ vs ‘green-growth’ debate highlights expert divergence under climate change
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Zelenskiy accuses Russia of 'radiation blackmail' after shelling near Zaporizhzhia plant – video
Ukraine's president accused Russia of 'radiation blackmail' after shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. 'They want you to show weakness, to give up and stop supporting Ukraine,' said Zelenskiy in an address to Ambrosetti International Economic Forum in Italy on Friday.
An IAEA inspection team finally reached the Russian-controlled nuclear power plant on Thursday. 'It is obvious that the plant and physical integrity of the plant have been violated several times,' said the chief inspector, Rafael Grossi, in brief comments to reporters after his team took a preliminary look at the plant's condition.
Energoatom, Ukraine's nuclear energy agency however, said the IAEA was not shown certain areas of the site on Telegram. Energoatom accused Russia of giving a limited tour of the plant to undermine the IAEA's ability to get a grip on the 'facts on the ground'
- Physical integrity of Zaporizhzhia plant ‘violated’, says UN nuclear chief
- Russia-Ukraine war: Russia says gas pipeline suspended indefinitely; G7 nations agree price cap for Russian oil – live
The Guardian view on beavers: a spur to hope for nature’s recovery | Editorial
The successful reintroduction of these charismatic, industrious rodents proves that restoring ecosystems is possible
“Merely a trifle! Merely a trifle! And it isn’t really finished!” says CS Lewis’s Mr Beaver when Susan, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, compliments his dam. In icy Narnia, the Beavers come to the children’s rescue after their friend Mr Tumnus is captured. They are ingenious, energetic, helpful to humans – in other words, not entirely dissimilar from how conservationists might describe them (with the exception of Lewis’s thoroughly old-fashioned view of gender roles: while Mr Beaver is the couple’s builder, Mrs Beaver is a seamstress).
Beavers were hunted to extinction across much of Europe hundreds of years ago. When The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published in 1950 they were, although not mythical creatures, partly imaginary ones in the sense that vanishingly few Britons had ever seen one. It is no wonder, given how warmly their memory lived on in books such as Lewis’s, that their successful reintroduction to England and Scotland is widely if not universally regarded as good news.
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