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Cows help farms capture more carbon in soil, study shows
Research also reveals that a mixture of arable crops and cattle helps improve the biodiversity of the land
Cows may belch methane into the atmosphere at alarming rates, but new data shows they may play an important role in renewing farm soil.
Research by the Soil Association Exchange shows that farms with a mixture of arable crops and livestock have about a third more carbon stored within their soil than those with only arable crops, thanks to the animals’ manure.
Continue reading...‘It’s hugely moving’: record numbers of sea turtle nests recorded in Greece
Conservationists celebrate as efforts to save the Caretta caretta sea turtle, which has existed for 100m years, pay off
After nearly a quarter of a century observing one of the world’s most famous sea turtle nesting grounds, Charikleia Minotou is convinced of one thing: nature, she says, has a way of “sending messages”.
Along the sandy shores of Sekania, on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, what she has seen both this year and last, has been beyond her wildest dreams. The beach, long described as the Mediterranean’s greatest “maternity ward” for the Caretta caretta loggerhead sea turtle, has not only record numbers of nests, but record numbers of surviving hatchlings as the species makes an extraordinary resurgence.
Continue reading...UK climate envoy to keep role at charity whose founders invest in fossil fuels
Supporters rally to Rachel Kyte after criticism of appointment over link to investment firm Quadrature Capital
The UK’s new climate envoy will retain her role on the board of a charity whose founders made a multimillion-pound donation to the Labour party and have investments in fossil fuels, the Guardian has learned.
Rachel Kyte, the former World Bank climate chief who was announced as the UK’s special representative on climate this week, is on the climate advisory board of Quadrature Climate Foundation, a charity set up by the founders of the Quadrature Capital investment company.
Continue reading...CFTC: Shift to V25 CCAs extends, traders reduce RGGI exposure
US DOE plans to fund up to $1.3 bln carbon capture projects
Final Oregon CPP reinstatement discussions explore potential refinements on stringency, costs
Penguin chicks survive tearaway iceberg
Brazil’s Amazonas REDD+ recommendation to suspend activities halted as prosecutors defend effort
CWNY24: BRIEFING – COP29 to encourage private sector role crucial to decarbonisation
US House introduces bill to lift EPA’s summertime ban of E15 fuel sales
CWNYC24: Canadian carbon markets brace for shifting political, investment landscape
Global consultancy questions rationale of California’s proposed LCFS 15-day rules in restricting low carbon fuel market access
Grim new death records amid brutal heat plaguing south-west US
More than 16 million people under heat alerts on Friday, with Las Vegas on 102nd day of temperatures above 100F
Brutal heat continues to plague the south-west US, with excessive heat alerts lingering long into September as parts of the region set grim new records for deaths connected to the sweltering temperatures.
Autumn has offered little reprieve for cities that have already spent months mired in triple-digit temperatures. This week, Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; and Palm Springs, California, are all grappling with severe weather, with highs that have pushed over 100F (38C). More than 16 million people in the US were under heat alerts on Friday, according to the National Weather Service, mostly clustered in the southern tips of Nevada, Arizona and California.
Continue reading...CWNYC24: Brazilian J-REDD deal ignored governor’s tainted record, say Indigenous leaders
EU applies ‘resilience criteria’ to bolster domestic cleantech
CWNYC24: ICR reveals details on biodiversity credit programme ahead of consultation launch
Bottom-breathing turtle among Queensland endangered species under threat from invasive fish
Record floods propel aggressive Mozambique tilapia throughout Mary River, compromising efforts to save ancient fish and endangered turtles
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Record floods have propelled an aggressive invasive fish species across a south-east Queensland river catchment, compromising efforts to save endangered and ancient fishes and turtles.
The Moonaboola (Mary) river catchment is home to several threatened species, including the Mary River turtle, the white-throated snapping turtle (known for breathing through its bottom), the Mary River cod and the Australian lungfish, which has survived for 150m years and is considered a living fossil.
Continue reading...Norway releases nature action plan, sets targets far short of GBF
INTERVIEW: Cement giant says EU regulation too stringent to scale up e-fuel for maritime, aviation
Country Diary 100 years on: sheep and dogs dominate over rabbits and house martins
Domesticated creatures feature heavily in contemporary contributions to Guardian column compared to diaries of 1920s
In the early 1920s, the British countryside was a place where blackbirds sang, rabbits scurried and the summer skies were animated by swallows and house martins. A century on, blackbirds still sing and ancient oaks stand proud but the landscape is dominated by sheep, cows and dogs – according to Guardian country diarists.
A study of the most-featured species in the Country Diary column from 2021-24 and a century earlier reveals a surprising dominance of domesticated creatures in the mind’s eye of the contemporary contributors.
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