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InterContinental goes on hiring spree for huge green hydrogen project in WA
InterContinental Energy, the green hydrogen developer behind the Asian Renewable Energy Hub, has announced a string of top-level hires.
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Unstoppable: Rooftop solar market notches up new all-time high in March
Australia breaks yet another record for rooftop solar installations, with homes and businesses adding 317MW of systems in March – an all-time high for national monthly installs.
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Preview: Why the new Ioniq 5 heralds a step change in electric vehicles
Hyundai's new electric vehicle platform allows for big changes in its first specialised EV design, but the most exciting development might be its "vehicle to load" option.
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Aurora project could start life as big battery, as 1414 rethinks business case
From solar tower project, to TESS demonstration, to big battery? 1414 Degrees says new Aurora modelling shows starting with a bigger battery and no solar makes better sense.
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Clean energy? The world’s demand for copper could be catastrophic for communities and environments
Shell invests $90 million in nature-based activities over past year
Biden tax plan eschews fossil fuel subsidies for clean energy credits
EU Market: EUAs recede from record high amid energy declines, profit-taking
The Guardian view on dark skies: we need them
Light pollution is killing insects and birds – and an ancient human connection with the heavenly bodies
Severe light pollution in Britain appears to have fallen, according to the CPRE, the countryside charity. Across a week in February, the charity asked volunteers to look up and count the stars they could see. The results suggest that 51% of participants were experiencing severe light pollution, compared to 61% the previous year – an effect, the charity concluded, of darker town and city centres, owing to lockdown. Sadly, though, the overall trend is worrying: human illumination of the planet is growing by 2% a year. This has serious consequences: there is mounting evidence that light pollution is a serious contributing factor to what has been called the “insect apocalypse”. Disoriented by light, birds also die as they migrate over cities: a distressing 100,000 a year succumb over New York City, confused by the illumination of the skyscrapers. The solution is simple and obvious: to turn unnecessary lights off – also saving energy – and to shade those required at street level.
Light pollution also has the effect of deracinating humans in densely populated areas from what was once a vivid, intense, and often deeply generative relationship with the night sky. In ancient Babylonia, astronomy was inextricably linked with the development of branches of mathematics, with cosmology and divination, and with the establishment of calendars. Early Greek philosophers and mathematicians were also concerned with the arrangement of the heavenly bodies, borrowing heavily from their eastern forebears to try to understand the universe and the human place within it. Stars, of course, have been used since time immemorial to help human beings move around the planet: Polynesians used a range of methods, including star navigation, to travel prodigious distances across the Pacific.
Continue reading...Marine species increasingly can’t live at equator due to global heating
Study suggests it is already too warm in tropics for some species to survive
Global heating has made the ocean around the equator less rich in wildlife, with conditions likely already too hot for some species to survive, according to a new study.
Analysis of the changing locations of almost 50,000 marine species between 1955 and 2015 found a predicted impact of global heating – species moving away from the equator – can now be observed at a global scale.
Continue reading...Quebec hoping to complete draft forestry protocol this spring
Two US men sentenced in carbon credit investor fraud scheme
Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high
Concentrations are 50% above pre-industrial levels despite dip in emissions during Covid pandemic
Concentrations of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have hit record highs, despite a dip in emissions during the Covid pandemic, scientists have said.
The latest measurements from the long-running recording station at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, show global levels of carbon dioxide are 50% above what they were when the Industrial Revolution began in Britain.
Continue reading...Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism
Environmental Protection Agency launches crackdown on pollution that disproportionately affects people of color
Michael Regan, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has sought to revive the effort to confront environmental racism by ordering the agency to crack down on the pollution that disproportionately blights people of color.
On Wednesday, Regan issued a directive to EPA staff to “infuse equity and environmental justice principles and priorities into all EPA practices, policies, and programs”. The memo demands the agency use the “full array of policy and legal tools at our disposal” to ensure vulnerable communities are front of mind when issuing permits for polluting facilities or cleaning up following disasters.
Continue reading...EU ETS registry to go offline for maintenance, upgrade on May 3
Extinction fears drive The Wildlife Trusts' re-wilding campaign
'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature
Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame | Adrienne Matei
Researchers believe a factor is a chemical used in drycleaning and household products such as shoe polishes and carpet cleaners
Asked about the future of Parkinson’s disease in the US, Dr Ray Dorsey says, “We’re on the tip of a very, very large iceberg.”
Dorsey, a neurologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center and author of Ending Parkinson’s Disease, believes a Parkinson’s epidemic is on the horizon. Parkinson’s is already the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world; in the US, the number of people with Parkinson’s has increased 35% the last 10 years, says Dorsey, and “We think over the next 25 years it will double again.”
Continue reading...Warning over dolphins at risk of disturbance as people head to UK coast
Wildlife charities call for people spending time at sea to give space to marine mammals
Dolphins face an increasing risk of disturbance from people taking to the sea on boats, jetskis, paddleboards and kayaks as lockdown eases, campaigners have warned.
Many people were not aware of the laws against disturbing dolphins, whales and porpoises – or that they risked fines for breaking them, said Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) and the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU).
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