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Great news, everybody! We’re about to be over-run by giant spiders | Nell Frizzell
It’s that time of year when homes fill with hairy eight-legged monsters. At least they keep the flies under control …
It is giant spider season and I am delighted. As someone who is ravaged by flying insects all summer, I welcome these eight-legged death machines into my home with open arms. Speckle-backed Tegeneria? Be my guest! I would far rather something that looks like an animated tomato stalk occasionally scuttled across my curtain than be beset by a swarm of fruit flies, bluebottles or midges. I have even heard that spiders might eat clothes moths, although I think for them to have a significant impact on numbers I would have to lean even further into my Miss Havisham alter ego and stroll around bedecked by webs.
I wasn’t always this way. As a child, I was as terrified of spiders as I am today by droughts and unfiled tax returns. I would watch in amazed horror as my country-born mother picked up arachnids the size and heft of dogs and calmly threw them out the window. There were whole cupboards I refused to open for fear of spiders. Once, after accidentally walking into a web during a game of hide and seek, I actually vomited at the thought of a spider being close to my skin (they found me quite quickly after that).
Continue reading...Britain’s tropical rain and parched Amazon are new norms in a messed-up climate | Jonathan Watts
On my return to the UK from Brazil I’ve seen how northern latitudes are behaving like the equatorial margins
Returning to British suburbia from the Brazilian Amazon is always disconcerting, but it has been doubly weird in the past few days because the London commuter belt has been inundated with volumes of rain that normally belong in the tropics.
Mini-tornadoes, flash floods and the dumping of a month’s worth of rain in a single day have flooded transport hubs, high street pubs, and the shrubs of semidetached homes.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
Continue reading...Conservation NGO announces $1 bln plan to boost nature protection in Africa
UK authority proposes extending current free carbon allocations period one year to 2027
ETS2 under pressure as ‘populist’ blame game begins, senior EU lawmaker warns
INTERVIEW: National strategies should be next step for bioeconomy
Norway extends tropical forest programme to 2035
Solar industry irate as Victorians to bear cost of technology to switch off rooftop PV
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The Driven Podcast: Polestar’s big play on electric SUVs
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South Korea needs more proactive policies to drive down shipping emissions, NGO says
Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures
Loved-up brown bears and whispering raccoons feature in this light-hearted look at a selection of finalists from the Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards. A winner will be announced on 10 December
Continue reading...UK will need to double nature protection funding to meet targets, new data shows
Carbon Brief says more than £800m will need to be spent in each of the next two years
The UK government has been failing to meet its commitments to fund nature protection in the developing world, and will need to double current spending to meet the targets, new data has shown.
Underspending on overseas climate aid by the previous Conservative government has meant spending averaged £450m a year for the three full years since 2021 – less than half the £3bn that was pledged for nature projects in poor countries.
Continue reading...Energy storage jobs will soon overtake those in coal and gas
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Alinta, Parkwind snag first offshore wind licence in Southern Ocean zone that could power smelter
The post Alinta, Parkwind snag first offshore wind licence in Southern Ocean zone that could power smelter appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The common raupō once kept NZ’s wetlands and lakes thriving – now it could help restore them
RSPCA launches review of farm animal welfare scheme
Global decarbonisation efforts stalling as energy demand rises, consultancy warns
CWNYC24: US CFTC’s voluntary carbon market guidance aims to level the playing field -chair
US Senators propose to include mine methane capture in federal CCS tax credits
“Net zero is a con:” Forrest outlines how Fortescue mines will eliminate fossil fuels by end of decade
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