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When disaster strikes, not everyone is affected the same way. Research shows the experiences of sexually and gender diverse people are frequently very different to those of heterosexual people. Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia is deeply exposed to carbon border tax adjustments due to our lack of action in reducing emissions

Global momentum is building on increasing climate action to meet the Paris agreement’s 1.5C limit, with all countries under pressure to increase their 2030 emission reductions ahead of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this year. But Australia appears to be going backwards.

Now another issue has arisen from its inaction: border taxes.

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The Perseverance rover could not be more aptly named, says Nasa science chief Thomas Zurbuchen.

The Liberals know where to take WA energy but probably not how to do it. Labor is on top of the detail but shy of facing the inevitable. So close to a bipartisan approach, will our political class blow it?

The post WA Libs fills Labor’s energy policy void with a coal exit and green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An electrified fleet of passenger vehicles would substantially reduce Australia's emissions even if the electricity grid was entirely powered by coal, according to new research.

The post EVs smash petrol cars on emissions, even with coal-powered grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Barely a single great white shark has been spotted off the city's coast for two years, where once there were hundreds.

Despite months of a new river management strategy, the Menindee community is seething – and their water is turning green

This is the township of Menindee’s drinking water supply.

The pool behind weir 32 that provides water to the township of 600 turned green in January and a thick slime now covers up to a third of its surface.

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A federal judge rejects Apache tribal members’ request to halt the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper mining company

Efforts to prevent a sacred Native American site from being destroyed by a copper mine received a setback yesterday, when a federal judge rejected Apache tribal members’ request to halt the site’s transfer to a a multi-national mining company.

While US district judge Steven Logan acknowledged that the mine would “close off a portal to the Creator forever and will completely devastate the Western Apaches’ lifeblood”, he said the activist group Apache Stronghold lacked legal standing in the case since it represented tribal individuals rather than a tribal government.

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Community forest projects have seen a surge in volunteers keen to reduce CO2 emissions by creating new woodlands

The UK may be in the grip of a winter lockdown but in one village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales the local climate-change group has been busy.

Plans are afoot to plant hundreds of trees on land surrounding Newton-le-Willows, in lower Wensleydale, in an effort to tackle the climate crisis. According to scientists, planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere.

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Verra is looking for a regional Market Development Manager to lead the strategy and promotion of these standards to respond to growing opportunities in Europe.

Exclusive: Although scientists recommended otherwise, Trump officials favored political allies over endangered animals, internal emails show

Federal scientists and regulators repeatedly complained they were sidelined by Donald Trump’s administration when they warned of risks to wildlife posed by a California water management plan, according to newly unveiled documents.

The plan, finalized in late 2019, favored the former president’s political allies – farmers upset with environmental protections that kept them from receiving more irrigation water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the hub of California’s water network.

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A project in Edinburgh is aiming to boost numbers after a drastic decline in the bird's population.

Lazer Sandford says subterranean tactics are likely to feature in new wave of climate emergency protests

An environmental activist who spent 12 days in a tunnel network underneath Euston Square Gardens in central London says the protest is likely to be the first of a new wave against the climate emergency using subterranean tactics.

Speaking exclusively to the Guardian in his first interview since leaving the tunnel network on 6 February, Lachlan Sandford, 20, known as Lazer, said the protest to raise awareness about the environmental destruction that activists believe the high-speed rail link HS2 will cause would not be a one-off.

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Exclusive: US chains Walmart, Costco and Kroger selling Brazilian beef produced by JBS linked to destruction of Brazilian rainforest

Three of the biggest US grocery chains sell Brazilian beef produced by a controversial meat company linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, an investigation has revealed.

Food giants Walmart, Costco and Kroger – which together totalled net sales worth more than half a trillion dollars last year – are selling Brazilian beef products imported from JBS, the world’s largest meat company, which has been linked to deforestation.

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Department of Environment and Science says damage to boat indicates crocodile’s involvement ‘highly likely’

Human remains have been found during a search for a missing fisherman on a tropical Queensland island, as the hunt for a killer crocodile continues.

Police, SES and wildlife officers have been searching for the missing 69-year-old since he went fishing in a creek on Hinchinbrook Island about 3pm on Thursday.

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The instrument takes images of dust storms, frost deposits and minerals on the Red Planet's surface.

The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme.

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Financial entities continued to ramp up their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings ahead of next week’s WCI auction, as regulated entities cut their holdings amid rising secondary market prices, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Organization: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Position: Intern (m/f/d) for Climate Finance and Carbon Pricing/Markets in East Africa Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda Deadline for Application: 24 February 2021