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Climate change: Rain melting Greenland ice sheet 'even in winter'

BBC - Fri, 2019-03-08 00:01
The sheer volume of ice covering Greenland means its fate has global repercussions.
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Women Fest founder plans training camp for climate rebels

The Guardian - Thu, 2019-03-07 21:05

Spring Uprising festival in Bristol will feature bands and civil disobedience instruction

The woman behind the UK’s first female-only festival is setting up a climate activism training camp to instruct hundreds of young people in civil disobedience before a series of environmental protests planned for the coming weeks.

Tiana Jacout is putting on the Spring Uprising festival in Bristol this month for people taking part in the ongoing school strikes and the Extinction Rebellion protests planned for 15 April.

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South Korea lowers bid limits for Mar. 13 CO2 auction

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2019-03-07 20:23
South Korea’s environment ministry has halved the allowance volume each ETS participant can bid for at next week’s sale, a move designed to allow more buyers to bid successfully.
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Western Australia EPA backs mandatory carbon offsetting for new big-emitting projects

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2019-03-07 19:43
Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority (EA) on Thursday recommended that new projects emitting more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2e a year should be required to offset their emissions using high-quality carbon credits.
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Cern cuts ties with 'sexist' scientist Alessandro Strumia

BBC - Thu, 2019-03-07 19:22
The world-famous lab cuts ties with a scientist who said women were less able at physics than men.
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Giving legal rights to nature

ABC Environment - Thu, 2019-03-07 19:05
Can nature, rivers, mountains or animals, have legal rights - just like people? Legal rights will change the relationship we have with nature and that’s crucial to really protect the environment.
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'Falling out of trees': dozens of dead possums blamed on extreme heat stress

The Guardian - Thu, 2019-03-07 17:07

Rescuers found 127 ringtail possums along the shoreline and in the water on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula

More than 100 dead and injured ringtail possums have been found by wildlife rescuers along a single stretch of beach in Victoria in what ecologists say is becoming an annual occurrence due to extreme heat.

Rescuers and wildlife carers discovered 127 ringtail possums along the shoreline and in the water at Somers Beach on the Mornington Peninsula on Saturday during a four-day period that saw consistent temperatures in the high 30s, warm nights and bushfires in parts of the state.

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The patch unplugging premature babies

BBC - Thu, 2019-03-07 16:55
A team at Northwestern University developed a wireless patch that monitors the vitals of premature babies.
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Tesla’s cheapest Model 3 may not arrive in Australia until 2020

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 15:43

It will be months before the Standard Range Model 3 arrives in Europe and China, meaning a likely 2020 arrival date for Australia.

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Rooftop solar trading platform cuts out energy market middle man

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 15:40

Energy Locals, Enosi launch rooftop solar trading platform to put consumers in charge of who they sell their excess PV generation to, and for how much.

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Australia’s transport emissions laid bare, in four very nice graphs

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 15:34

Transport expert Chris Loader's easy-on-the-eye graphs paint a very clear picture of Australia's transport-based carbon emissions.

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Horizon Power swaps poles and wires for solar and storage

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 15:30

W.A. utility to decommission 54km of poles and wires and replace with 13 Micro Power Systems combining solar, battery storage and a back-up diesel generator.

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Energy utilities are building their solar portfolios

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 14:39

New data from Wiki-Solar reveals that some of the world’s leading energy utilities are beginning to build significant solar generation portfolios.

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Networks unveil “safe and fair” rooftop solar, battery connection standards

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 14:25

Energy Networks Australia releases first of standardised guidelines to govern “safe, consistent and efficient” installation of rooftop solar and storage across NEM.

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South Australia solar shines out of Snowy’s pumped hydro modelling

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 14:06

The modelling used to promote the multi-billion Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project appears to assume that in South Australia, solar power is produced during the night.

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WA prepares plan to shift from coal to renewables, and distributed energy

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 13:54

W.A. government heralds a rapid shift from coal to renewables, and unveils plans to deal with the dramatic uptake of rooftop solar, battery storage and EVs.

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Statkraft plans 1GW solar, wind, storage “virtual power plant” in UK

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 12:50

Stakraft plans to build what it is calling UK's first virtual power plant to integrate wind, solar, battery storage, and gas for over 1GW of power.

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Energy efficiency market report: Lighting strikes twice in Victoria

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 12:48

Changes to product requirements and compliance matters, plus the election in New South Wales, have made for interesting times in NSW and Victoria energy efficiency markets.

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Finland to ban coal-fired power by 2029

RenewEconomy - Thu, 2019-03-07 12:47

emissionsThe Finnish Parliament has approved a motion to bring forward its ban on coal for energy use to May 1, 2029.

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The dingo is a true-blue, native Australian species

The Conversation - Thu, 2019-03-07 12:35
Of all Australia’s wildlife, one stands out as having an identity crisis: the dingo. New research has found the dingo is its own species, distinct from 'wild dogs'. Bradley Smith, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology, Flinders University Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Justin W. Adams, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University Kylie M Cairns, Adjunct associate lecturer, UNSW Mathew Crowther, Associate professor, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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