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CP Daily: Wednesday September 15, 2021
Mangrove forests: Photography winners show beauty of ecosystems
Canadian prairie ranchers struggle with drought conditions
Canada election: Lytton fire puts village at centre of debate
‘Larger than usual’: this year’s ozone layer hole bigger than Antarctica
Scientists say ozone hole is unusually large for this stage in season and growing quickly
The hole in the ozone layer that develops annually is “rather larger than usual” and is currently bigger than Antartica, say the scientists responsible for monitoring it.
Researchers from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service say that this year’s hole is growing quickly and is larger than 75% of ozone holes at this stage in the season since 1979.
Continue reading...CORRELATIONS: EU carbon link to gas breaks down as winter coal burn locked in
Legislative timelines may push back Pennsylvania’s RGGI entrance in 2022
Another California-registered offset project applies for LCFS pathway
Annual voluntary carbon market value to hit $1 bln in 2021 -report
Smoke from the Black Summer fires created an algal bloom bigger than Australia in the Southern Ocean
Jaws of death: how the canine teeth of carnivorous mammals evolved to make them super-killers
We analysed data from 29,798 clean-ups around the world to uncover some of the worst litter hotspots
US gov’t agency approves subcommittee to examine carbon market design, regulation
NA Markets: California allowances surge to new all-time high above $26 after recall election
Australian bandicoot brought back from brink of extinction
Horror at the Faroes dolphin slaughter is only human – but it risks hypocrisy | Philip Hoare
Our response to a mass cetacean hunt reveals man’s duplicitous attitudes to animals
Witnessing the mass movement of wild animals can seem to be a rebuttal of the disastrous news we hear, daily, of our natural environment. We know they are threatened, in their very choreography, but in the sight of them, the eternal optimism of the human spirit is encouraged to think that all is not lost.
In the past few days we’ve seen moving stories of massed southern right whales feeding off New South Wales. Only then, bitterly, to have the Dantean alternative presented to us, in the piles of bloody dolphin carcases on a quay in the Faroe Islands.
Continue reading...My towering agave plant is in full bloom – but it’s a bittersweet bonanza | Adrian Chiles
The century plant outside my flat grew a monstrous stalk this summer. I have since learned this means its days are numbered – which has painted it in a whole new light
There is a great big plant outside the flats where I live that looks bewildered to find itself there. In Mexico, yes; west London, not so much. Its leaves look like the tongues of giant lizards, with prickly edges and nasty spikes at the tips. This summer, out of their ferocious midst, a thick stalk emerged suddenly and grew, almost overnight, to an astonishing height. There was a certain exhibitionist arrogance about this new weapon in its armoury. I admired it, but feared it a little, too.
Enquiries revealed the plant to be Agave americana. This species is commonly known as the century plant, although typically it lives for between 10 and 30 years. I read with great sadness that it sends up the magnificent, branched stalk only the once, as it comes to the end of its life.
Continue reading...‘Black Summer’ bushfires released more than a year’s worth of Australian emissions
New research suggests emissions from 'Black Summer' bushfires were double previous estimates, and triggered a plankton bloom bigger than Australia.
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