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EU Market: EUAs weaken as gas pullback continues
Global energy-related emissions to peak in 2023, but pathway “too slow” to hit Paris-aligned 1.5C -report
2020 was hottest year on record by narrow margin, Nasa says
Due to different methods, US Noaa judged year as fractionally cooler than 2016 while UK Met Office put 2020 in close second place
Last year was by a narrow margin the hottest ever on record, according to Nasa, with the climate crisis stamping its mark on 2020 through soaring temperatures, enormous hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires.
The average global land and ocean temperature in 2020 was the highest ever measured, Nasa announced on Thursday, edging out the previous record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree.
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UPDATE – US EPA proposes delay in Renewable Fuel Standard compliance deadlines
Western Australia LNG plant faces calls to shut down until faulty carbon capture system is fixed
Environmental groups blast state government for failure to penalise Chevron’s Gorgon plant for increased greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions from Chevron’s Gorgon LNG facility have increased because the company’s carbon capture system is not working properly, meaning more carbon dioxide is being vented into the atmosphere.
Environment groups have blasted the Western Australian government for not imposing penalties on the energy company after documents revealed sand was clogging the injection system designed to bury up to 4m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year under Barrow Island.
Continue reading...Climate change: 'Exceptionally hot' 2020 concludes warmest decade
Electric eels work together to zap prey
Federal environment departments suppressing access to information, audit shows
An audit of federal FOI requests finds environmental agencies amongst the worst at providing open access to government documents.
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Honey detective work raises fears for bees
Past Covid-19 infection may provide 'months of immunity'
Countries adapting too slowly to climate breakdown, UN warns
Report says not enough funding is being made available to deal with effects of extreme weather
Millions of people around the world are facing disaster from flood, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather, as governments fail to take the measures needed to adapt to the impacts of climate breakdown, the UN has warned.
Nearly three-quarters of countries around the world have recognised the need to plan for the effects of global heating, but few of those plans are adequate to the rising threat, and little funding has been made available to put them into force, according to the UN environment programme’s Adaptation report 2020, published on Thursday.
Continue reading...NZ Market: Traders in bullish mood as carbon market reform kicks in
Growing food: Call to give vegetable growers public cash
'Tree of life': aerial photos reveal arboreal patterns at Lake Cakora in NSW – in pictures
Amateur photographer Derry Moroney lives on the mid-corth coast of New South Wales in the community of Brooms Head. For the past three years he has been photographing landscapes, animals and insects. ‘With our pristine beaches and Yuraygir national park on my doorstep, I really didn’t have to travel very far,’ he says.
In July 2020 Moroney followed the water upstream from the estuary at Brooms Head and stumbled on to Lake Cakora. Using his drone he captured stunning images of arboreal-like drainage channels in Lake Cakora. ‘The tea trees along the banks colour the water running off into the lake after a big storm,’ he says, describing the patterns as ‘like a tree of life’.
You can see more of his work on Instagram at @derry_moroney_photography
Don’t hold your breath for clean air in Victoria
A year ago, bushfires blanketed major Australian cities with smoke, but coal fired power stations are their own major source of air pollution.
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Indonesia: Archaeologists find world's oldest animal cave painting
Nation’s capital celebrates strong year for households embracing solar power
ACT government celebrates strong uptake of rooftop solar, with more than 4,200 systems added in 2020.
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