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App allows city-dwellers to turn citizen scientists and track Australia's urban birds
Big City Birds app launched to help researchers better understand sulphur-crested cockatoo, ibis and brush-turkey
There’s a new reason to engage with some of Australia’s most ubiquitous birds. A new app allows users to record the whereabouts of “big city” species like the sulphur-crested cockatoo and the Australian white ibis.
Researchers at the University of Sydney and Taronga Conservation Society have launched the Big City Birds app to assist scientists with data collection and help them better understand some of our most common species.
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Ghanaians devastated by illegal fishing try hand at citizen sleuthing
Crucial fish stocks could disappear within five years without urgent action, so desperate fishers are using a new smartphone app to log alleged crimes
Illegal and destructive practices by industrial trawlers in Ghana have led to one of the worst overfishing crises in west Africa, with small pelagic species known as “the people’s fish” driven almost to the brink of collapse.
Scores of small-scale fishers are now fighting back against illegal trawlers using a smartphone app that allows them to record, log and report any alleged fishery crimes they spot out at sea.
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Farage's anti-cyclist article shows car users fear loss of control
Bike-friendly measures introduced during lockdown have led rightwing populists to revive much-disproved myths
If you’re a fan of the historical notion that progress doesn’t move as a straight, upward line but tends to be a bit more wiggly, then there was an article about cycling in this week’s Mail on Sunday that very much proved the point.
Anti-cyclist pieces in the Mail are not exactly uncommon, but this one was notable because its key argument was that cyclists should “pay road tax”.
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Five post-Trump obstacles to a global green recovery
Joe Biden’s win gives the globe a better chance of averting climate catastrophe, but major obstacles remain
Environmentalists have been heartened by Joe Biden’s victory as, if the US rejoins the Paris agreement as expected, it will give the world a much better chance of averting climate catastrophe. However, there are still hurdles to overcome to rein in emissions and keep warming to within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Continue reading...US election result boosts preparations for UN climate summit
Joe Biden has vowed to return US to Paris agreement and result brightens prospects for Cop26
Preparations for the next vital UN summit on the climate – one of the last chances to set the world on track to meet the Paris agreement – have been given a boost by the election of Joe Biden as president.
The election caps a remarkable few weeks on international climate action, which have seen China, the EU, Japan and others commit to long-term targets on greenhouse gas emissions to fulfil the Paris climate agreement.
Continue reading...South Australia's new tax on electric vehicles ridiculed as 'a big tax on not polluting'
Experts accuse government of using EVs as ‘a scapegoat for falling fuel excise taxes’
South Australia’s controversial new electric vehicle charge has been labelled “a big tax on not polluting” by policy analysts and the EV industry.
It comes as MG launches the lowest price electric vehicle on the market in Australia yet – a $40,000 SUV crossover – that is about $10,000 cheaper than its nearest rival, the Nissan Leaf.
Continue reading...Woolworths pledges to source 100 per cent renewables by 2025
Retail giant Woolworths Group joins RE100 initiative with pledge to power all of its operations with 100 per cent renewable electricity within just five years.
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Australian researchers build new AI that could solve challenge of cheaper solar power
Australian researchers unveil a new artificial intelligence platform that fast-tracks the development of cheaper and more efficient solar cells.
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Tesla tip spurs Perth company’s lithium-ion battery ambitions
ASX-listed Altech Chemicals to collaborate with Spanish company on silicon-based battery materials hailed by Tesla as the next big thing in Li-ion technology.
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With Fitzgibbon gone, Labor has a chance to be a climate leader
Prominent Labor party figures say Joel Fitzgibbon's exit from shadow cabinet is an opportunity for Labor to demonstrate its true climate policy credentials.
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