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A bat: In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads | Helen Sullivan
In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads
Every evening in Sydney, clouds of bats move across the sky. They time their trip so that there is just too little light to make out anything more than a silhouette – which is just enough light so that you can see, very clearly, the outlines of their legs and feet knocking together – an entrechat – as they flap their wings.
I’m not sure that I will ever stop having the exact same thought about this: “Oh my God, you can see their feet knocking together. Oh my God.”
Continue reading...Renewable Energy Hub launches carbon, clean energy trading platform
Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year – and it will get worse
Climate change is causing tuna to migrate, which could spell catastrophe for the small islands that depend on them
UK’s Drax reports 56% drop in ETS-based output as coal stockpile clears
Italy’s Enel joins EU utilities reporting a rebound in H1 thermal power output
Coalition criticised after Great Barrier Reef Foundation receives $351,000 in jobkeeper payments
Foundation has received $400,000 in total pandemic support despite being awarded $443m government grant three years ago
Labor has asked the Morrison government to explain why a Great Barrier Reef-focused charity received jobkeeper despite still having hundreds of millions of dollars remaining from a nearly $500m grant it received three years ago.
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which expanded from six to 38 full-time staff after accepting a $443m grant that it did not request from the Turnbull government in 2018, confirmed it received about $351,000 in jobkeeper payments in the 2019-20 financial year.
Continue reading...Ryegrass, fire ants and feral cats: major Australian study identifies costliest pests in past 60 years
The study identifies each state’s most economically damaging species and warns costs could rise further without investment
Invasive plants, animals and diseases have cost Australia at least $390bn in damages and management costs over the past 60 years, according to research that has painted the most accurate picture yet of the economic burden of these invaders.
Feral cats are the costliest of the hundreds of individual species studied, accounting for just over $10bn in damages and management expenses. Rodents, pigs and rabbits came close behind.
Continue reading...US Senate kicks off infrastructure debate, as advocates press for more climate measures
ArcelorMittal sets 2030 global climate target, raises European GHG goal
Delayed Russian Nauka module joins space station
Market operator to map path to zero emissions grid by 2035
AEMO presents five scenarios for the energy transition, but only one delivers on climate targets and requites zero emissions grid by 2035.
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The activists sabotaging railways in solidarity with Indigenous people
People coming to the aid of the Wet’suwet’en nation to stop a pipeline are using direct action that is prompting terror charges
The night of 28 November, Samantha Brooks, 24, hunched over the railway tracks near Bellingham, Washington, about 32km (20 miles) south of the Canada-US border and installed a “shunt,” according to trial documents obtained by the Guardian.
Related: Dakota access pipeline: court strikes down permits in victory for Standing Rock Sioux
Continue reading...‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
At Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border, the water line has dropped to a historic low, taking a heavy toll on the local industry
Chaos erupted at Bill West’s business in Page, Arizona, last week when he was forced to tell dozens of paid clients their summer vacations were either canceled or on hold – effective immediately.
Related: ‘I can see the industry disappearing’: US fishermen sound alarm at plans for offshore wind
Continue reading...Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
The analysis draws on public health studies that conclude that for every 4,434 metric tons of CO2 produced, one person globally will die
The lifestyles of around three average Americans will create enough planet-heating emissions to kill one person, and the emissions from a single coal-fired power plant is likely to result in more than 900 deaths, according to the first analysis to calculate the mortal cost of carbon emissions.
The new research builds upon what is known as the “social cost of carbon”, a monetary figure placed upon the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide emissions, by assigning an expected death toll from the emissions that cause the climate crisis.
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