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Chart of the Day: Australia’s ageing coal plants are not so reliable
Number of forced outages from Australia's feet of ageing coal fired generators jumped sharply in the last financial year.
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Why burning trees for energy makes no sense
Burning roundwood and stemwood for power actually emits more CO2 than coal per unit of energy generated. The practice must be stopped.
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The government must take responsibility for the Great Barrier Reef and stop looking for someone else to blame | Peter Garrett
When Unesco recommended the reef be placed on the ‘in danger’ list, the Coalition’s response was to shift the blame. We must do better
- Unesco recommends reef world heritage site be listed as ‘in danger’
- Timeline: decades of damage and Australia’s fight to stop ‘in danger’ listing
Escaping responsibility has become the recurrent theme of the Morrison government. Whether it is the glacial progress of the vaccination rollout, dealing with the megafires two summers ago, or the parlous state of the Great Barrier Reef, someone else is always to blame.
When Unesco released its recommendation to the World Heritage Committee in June to place the Great Barrier Reef on the “in danger” list, the first reaction of the federal government was to blame China.
Continue reading...Wind, solar and battery hybrids desperately need a change in market rules
"The technology allows for it, but the rules are getting in the way." Why Australia's hybrid wind, solar and battery facilities can't work together.
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Are the Nationals now the party for mining, not farming? If so, Barnaby Joyce must tread carefully
Windfarm plan could threaten disease-free Tasmanian devil colony, documents reveal
Exclusive: Environment officials raised concerns that damage to habitat on Robbins Island could be difficult to offset
A proposed new windfarm on Robbins Island off north-west Tasmania could threaten a disease-free Tasmanian devil population, according to federal environment officials, who say the damage to habitat could be difficult to offset.
Correspondence obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws shows officials raised concerns that no comparable habitat existed anywhere else to compensate for the effects the project could have on the island’s unique devil colony, which is considered a stronghold for the survival of the species.
Continue reading...Virgin Galactic: Sir Richard Branson rockets to the edge of space
Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson's long, winding path to space
Even if Covid hits shares, we must not inflate another cheap-money bubble
The Delta variant is rattling markets. But the temptation to soothe them with quantitative easing must be resisted
Falling share prices. Investors piling into the safe haven of bonds. Rising infection rates of the Delta variant of coronavirus. The events of the past week have demonstrated one thing clearly: this isn’t over yet.
A couple of months ago the way out of the crisis looked clear. Immunisation programmes were allowing developed countries to remove restrictions on activity. A pick-up in growth was expected to continue without interruption. Rising government bond yields were seen as a sign of life returning to normal.
Continue reading...Sir Richard Branson: Space flight will be 'extraordinary'
Virgin Galactic's Beth Moses: 'No camera can capture the magic'
Bear attack: rangers shoot killer grizzly in night vision ambush
Wildlife officials in Montana stake out chicken coop visited by same grizzly that fatally mauled camper
A grizzly bear that pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her has been fatally shot by wildlife officials, who used night-vision goggles to stake out a chicken coop it had also raided near the small Montana town of Ovando.
They shot the bear shortly after midnight on Friday when it approached a trap set near the coop about two miles from Ovando where 65-year-old Leah Davis Lokan of Chico, California, was killed on Tuesday, said Greg Lemon with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Friday July 9, 2021
Covid origins: Scientists weigh up evidence over virus's origins
Fire lookouts: The US Forest Service lookouts watching for fires
POLL: With EU ETS reforms afoot, analysts point to petering out price rally
Speculators’ California carbon position inches up as allowance prices notch new all-time high
‘One more mine does make a difference’: Australian children argue for the climate – and the law agrees
The world was watching as a judge formalised into law a government’s duty of care to protect under-18s from the climate crisis
At about 9.30am on Thursday morning, 17-year-old Melbourne school student Anjali Sharma was walking her two-year-old kelpie-cross dog Maya down to the creek when the notifications started buzzing on her phone.
“I was getting updates from the lawyers in the court,” says Sharma, who as we speak is about to take another call from a journalist at the Times of India.
Continue reading...The art of climbing photography with Simon Carter – video
Capturing stunning rock climbing images requires a specialised set of logistic, physical and artistic skills. In this episode of Art of Photography, internationally renowned climbing photographer Simon Carter outlines some of the techniques he has used to capture some of the world’s most spectacular rock climbing photographs of the past 25 years
- From Devil’s Tower to the Grampians: Simon Carter’s rock climbing photography – in pictures
- More from Guardian Australia's Art of Photography series