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Alaska: Biden to suspend Trump Arctic drilling leases
Callide’s future is a test of climate ambition and urgency for Queensland
Why breathe life back into one of Australia's most heavily polluting technologies? Queensland's big broken coal plant should be replaced with new tech.
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About 500,000 Australian species are undiscovered – and scientists are on a 25-year mission to finish the job
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Scientists propose urgent $824m mission to document Australia’s undiscovered plants and animals
Climate crisis makes mammoth task of recording all of Australia’s species over the next 25 years critical, academy says
Australia needs to embark on an urgent mission to formally document more than half a million undiscovered plants and animals before they are lost to science and the planet.
The Australian Academy of Science says some $824m will be needed over the next 25 years to complete a mammoth task becoming more urgent as the climate crisis puts more species at risk of extinction.
Continue reading...California initially foresaw substantially longer non-compliance period for partially invalidated Wisconsin offset project
Contracts for difference could have “distortive effects” on EU ETS price, say exchanges
Spain seeks to curb windfall profits from nuclear and hydro amid soaring carbon price
CN Markets: CCER volumes fall in May as investors take break
Eve: the off-grid life of a nine-year-old climate activist – video
Eve is the intimate story of a nine-year-old girl living in Tinkers Bubble, one of the oldest off-grid communities in the UK. A fledgling environmental activist, we follow her as she navigates her way back into traditional schooling and stands up for what she passionately believes in: the environment
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UK ranked last in Europe for bathing water quality in 2020
European Environment Agency judges only 110 British coastal and inland sites to be excellent
Swimmers in the UK hoping to enjoy waters certified clean and healthy this summer have been let down again. Only 110 coastal and inland sites were judged excellent in the latest bathing water quality data from Europe’s environmental watchdog.
Most of the UK’s bathing sites were not classified in 2020, however, because Covid-19 restrictions prevented sampling. This meant that out of 640 sites, 457 received no verdict in the rankings, compiled annually by the European Environment Agency and published on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Stonefish venom research may hold key to treating stings described as ‘worse than childbirth’
Study reveals toxicity of the world’s most venomous fish is potent enough to cause cardiac arrest and paralyse other muscles
New research into the venom in stonefish – the world’s most venomous fish – may lead to better treatments for beachgoers who are stung when they unwittingly step on them.
Though reef stonefish don’t look like heartstoppers, their venom is potent enough to cause cardiac arrest and paralyse other muscles, scientists at the University of Queensland and Ghent University in Belgium have found.
Continue reading...Shell’s historic loss in The Hague is a turning point in the fight against big oil | Tessa Khan
The oil giants that have helped drive the climate crisis are finally being forced to take responsibility for their actions
On a rainy afternoon in The Hague, the district court delivered a judgment against Royal Dutch Shell, the parent company of the Shell group. It refuted the excuses regularly relied on to continue extracting oil and gas and vindicated longstanding calls to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The court held that Shell’s current policy of merely reducing the “carbon intensity” of its products by 20% by 2030, and aiming to reach net zero by 2050, would contribute to climate impacts that endanger the human rights of the plaintiffs.
The extraordinary events preceding the oil industry’s so-called Black Wednesday bring to mind the proverbial path to bankruptcy: it happens gradually, and then all at once. Hot on the heels of a landmark report by the global energy body the International Energy Agency warning against new fossil fuel production, Wednesday’s historic ruling has blown another hole in the defences of an industry that has overwhelmingly failed to accept responsibility for driving the climate emergency.
Continue reading...Mars: Nasa's Perseverance rover's first 100 days in pictures
Diamond geysers: a cruise through Iceland – in pictures
Jessica Auer moved to a small community in Iceland’s eastern fjords to photograph the tourist boom that some see as a blessing, others a curse
Continue reading...‘This is a spectacular chorus’: walk into the cicada explosion
One of the world’s great natural spectacles is under way in the eastern US, stretching from the deep south to upstate New York
At first, the noise pulsing from the drooping elm tree boughs seemed to be coming from the power lines erected nearby. Like a surging electrical current, the sound fizzed to a crescendo on the ears before receding slightly, only to build up again to a loud, vibrating whirr.
It was only on the approach to the tree, as desiccated bodies crunched underfoot and small but sturdy creatures sporting wings and orange eyes suddenly clung on to our calf muscles, that it became apparent what was causing such a huge racket: millions of cicadas had just erupted from the earth.
Continue reading...I love my new garden – i just wish it didn't come with a gang of neighbourhood cats | Emma Beddington
I didn’t realise that when I moved to the suburbs I would be pushed into a war with so many felines intent on menacing the birds and my plants
I have been wondering why no one eats the bird seed at the front of the house: my husband has the answer. He recently sent me a picture captioned “This is why”: three muscular cats draped over the wall, inches from my feeders. Seemingly relaxed, they nevertheless project an aura of lazy homicidal menace. I wouldn’t want to walk past them myself, so it’s hardly surprising birds are put off.
I am learning that, when you move to the suburbs, you are allocated a quota of cats. Not your own: just some cats that are now part of your life, like it or not. By my calculations, it’s approximately 1.5 cats per head. We have the front yard gang, plus a sleek black puma-sized one that sits next to my small hens, appraisingly. The vegetable patch also has a cat tenant: a judgmental tabby who gets annoyed when I interrupt his busy schedule of digging up and defecating on my seedlings. Then there’s Derek, 20, confused and bony, often found by the back door emitting the haunting wail of a lost toddler (he’s my favourite).
Continue reading...Former PM Turnbull backs 5B’s modular solar expansion
Former PM joins the rush to clean energy, investing in a new funding round to back innovative solar business 5B.
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1000 per cent renewables for Australia? ARENA boss says that is the goal
ARENA CEO suggests Australia's electricity production could grow ten fold, and all from renewables, while becoming a global clean energy supplier.
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