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Climate change: Consumer 'confusion' threatens net zero homes plan
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine
Consultation begins on beaver reintroductions
Could this solar farm be a climate change solution?
CP Daily: Tuesday August 24, 2021
Oregon Clean Fuels Program logs historic deficit during Q1
Few significant California LCFS impacts foreseen from gubernatorial election
Myanmar submits revised Paris pledge strong on REDD, including Article 6 programme
Pacific Island bats are utterly fascinating, yet under threat and overlooked. Meet 4 species
Virgin Hyperloop unveils new pod concept video
RGGI compliance entities took varied approach to carbon market in Q2, quarterly reports show
Blue whales returning to Spain’s Atlantic coast after 40-year absence
Some experts fear climate crisis is leading creatures back to area where they were hunted almost to extinction
Blue whales, the world’s largest mammals, are returning to Spain’s Atlantic coast after an absence of more than 40 years.
The first one was spotted off the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain in 2017 by Bruno Díaz, a marine biologist who is head of the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in O Grove, Galicia.
Continue reading...Tesla, Enphase lead new energy players calling on ministers to drop “coal-keeper”
A group of new energy companies led by Tesla and Enphase call for focus on new technologies, rather than mechanisms to prop up ageing coal fleet.
The post Tesla, Enphase lead new energy players calling on ministers to drop “coal-keeper” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Pulsar discoverer awarded Royal Society's highest prize
Extinction Rebellion blocks Whitehall in protest against HMRC and Barclays
Activists say the bank, which handles government tax accounts, gives billions in funding to fossil fuel industries
Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked Whitehall in a protest against HMRC’s links to Barclays Bank, which handles the government’s tax collection bank accounts.
On the second day of the environmental protest group’s latest campaign of protest and civil disobedience, activists from its Welsh chapter locked themselves together in the street in front of the tax collection department, stopping traffic.
Continue reading...Euro Markets: Midday Update
ANALYSIS: Flush with ambition, China will need time to deliver on green hydrogen
Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires | Mary Stockdale
Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threat
Small fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at record speed. Our town’s beloved colony of great blue herons fall stunned out of the trees in their dozens. Animals, from cougars to rattlesnakes, leave their hidden places to seek water. The temperature has risen, and stalled, at a nearly unbearable 45C.
This is what a heat dome feels like in Vernon, a community in the British Columbian interior in Canada.
Continue reading...California Caldor fire burns thousands of hectares in weekend surge – video
The owner of a cabin which became surrounded by flames near Kyburz, California, managed to escape the Caldor fire after shooting the first part of this footage. The fire has burned more than 40,500 hectares (100,000 acres) in the north of the state since it started on 14 August, and more than 12,000 in just two days.
More than 500 structures were destroyed over the weekend by wildfire fuelled by warm winds and drought-stricken vegetation
- California’s Caldor fire burns 100,000 acres as it rips through small towns
- The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer
‘Kill it!’ US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion
Insects are eating crops of apples, grapes and hops, and destroying native trees such as maple, walnut and willow in Pennsylvania
The official public guidance is simple and to the point: “Kill it! Squash it, smash it… just get rid of it!”
Such is the threat posed by a summer invasion of troublesome spotted lanternfly insects in the north-east that Pennsylvania’s department of agriculture has resorted to the unorthodox language in its advice on dealing with the pest.
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