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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
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Germany launches tender to buy 175k CERs to offset 2020 government travel
Euro Markets: EUAs continue rebound from rout, still post 5.4% weekly loss
Austria to introduce carbon price from 2022 -finance minister
US Carbon Pricing and LCFS Roundup for week ending July 9, 2021
‘The sea was milky white’: how the Southern Water sewage scandal unfolded
Company has been issued with a huge fine but those affected by its actions are finding it hard to celebrate
The town of Whitstable sits on the north Kent coast, home to the oysters that have brought it worldwide fame from waters that are some of the most protected in Europe.
Celebrities, royals, tourists and locals flock to its annual festival to taste the native Whitstable oyster. But in 2013 the pollution in the sea where the famous oysters feed was so extreme that the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and other high-profile guests had to be served Irish shellfish hastily imported for the occasion.
Continue reading...Southern Water fined £90m for deliberately pouring sewage into sea
Privatised firm dumped billions of litres of raw sewage off north Kent and Hampshire coasts to avoid costs and penalties
Southern Water has been fined a record £90m for deliberately dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into protected seas over several years for its own financial gain.
Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson, sentencing the privatised water company, said it had discharged between 16bn and 21bn litres of raw sewage into some of the most precious, delicate environments in the country.
Continue reading...COMMENT: Playing with fire – the EU carbon market for buildings
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a hungry hippo, coot chick and mother and basking turtle
Continue reading...China to push blue carbon, make case for bivalve offsets
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are contaminating plastic food containers
Harmful PFAS chemicals are being used to hold food, drink and cosmetics, with unknown consequences for human health
Many of the world’s plastic containers and bottles are contaminated with toxic PFAS, and new data suggests that it’s probably leaching into food, drinks, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, cleaning products and other items at potentially high levels.
It’s difficult to say with precision how many plastic containers are contaminated and what it means for consumers’ health because regulators and industry have done very little testing or tracking until this year, when the Environmental Protection Agency discovered that the chemicals were leaching into a mosquito pesticide. One US plastic company reported “fluorinating” – or effectively adding PFAS to – 300m containers in 2011.
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