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New Zealand commits to reinvesting NZU auction revenue in carbon-cutting projects
S&P says taxpayer handout for gas plant won’t solve Snowy’s financial pressures
Leading credit ratings agency warns Snowy Hydro still faces significant credit risk, even after $600m of taxpayer funds to build a gas plant.
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Could biomass become a renewable peaking fuel? This man is counting on it
Energy start-up Verdant Earth Technologies says it has figured out a way of using biomass to produce hydrogen and help firm the grid.
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Ampol to trial green hydrogen production and Tesla battery VPP at outlets
Ampol to trial green hydrogen production and solar and storage to cut emissions at its service centres, but not from the petrol it sells.
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Native forest logging makes bushfires worse – and to say otherwise ignores the facts
Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants
Government owned utilities like Snowy Hydro should be leading the clean energy transition, not acting as a handbrake.
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City buzz: how urban beehives and artificial insemination are protecting Australia’s bees – in pictures
Bee populations around the world are under significant threat from extreme climate events, destruction of natural habitat, intensive farming practices, pests and disease. Australian apiarists and scientists are developing innovative solutions to protect the country’s bee population, increase genetic diversity and increase numbers
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Sustainability Consultant, Vertis – Madrid
Fatal attraction: rare corpse flower draws hundreds of onlookers
A San Francisco Bay Area nursery owner showcased the giant blooming flower to neighbors at an abandoned gas station
More than 1,000 people have flocked to an abandoned gas station in the San Francisco Bay Area to get a whiff of a corpse flower, named for the stench it emits when it blooms, which has been compared to rotting flesh.
Solomon Leyva, a nursery owner in Alameda who deals in exceptionally rare plants, had been posting on social media about his amorphophallus titanum. When he saw a lot of interest in the giant blooming flower, he decided to share the rare plant with his neighbors.
Continue reading...Crony capitalism: Morrison’s gas spending masks a deeper coal addiction
The Morrison government is going on a fossil gas spending spree. But a deeper, more urgent coal problem is growing bigger.
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Director of Industrial Programs, American Carbon Registry – Remote Working
Federal court vacates Trump administration’s last minute biofuel waivers
Analysts elevate WCI price outlook on booming speculator interest
EU lawmakers adopt stance on green hydrogen, keeping gas as a possibility
Washington legislators mull options after vetoes of climate bills, as WCI link uncertain
Vanished hen harriers prompt RSPB call for local community vigils
Residents urged to help keep persecuted raptors safe after two males disappear from Geltsdale nature reserve, Cumbria
People in Cumbria are being urged to watch over a pair of hen harriers who have begun nesting on a nature reserve as police investigate the disappearance of two other of the endangered raptors.
Two male hen harriers vanished from RSPB Geltsdale last week in what the police described as “suspicious circumstances”, just when both were providing nesting females with food. As a result both nests failed.
Continue reading...Ukraine should gradually raise its carbon tax to avoid EU’s border measures -expert group
Some cicadas infected with psychedelic fungus that causes mating frenzy
Massospora cicadina, laced with the same chemical as psychedelic mushrooms, infects a small number of cicadas
As billions of Brood X cicadas emerge from the dirt for the first time in 17 years, a fungus is making these bugs want to mate more than usual.
The Massospora cicadina, laced with the same chemical as psychedelic mushrooms, infects a small number of the periodical cicadas and takes over their bodies. Besides making the bugs eat away their insides, the fungus also increases their sex drives.
Continue reading...Governments achieve target of protecting 17% of land globally
UN report warns that quantity not matched by quality, with many conserved areas poorly protected, as Germany backs new landscapes fund for developing countries
An area greater than the land mass of Russia has been added to the world’s network of national parks and conservation areas since 2010, amid growing pressure to protect nature.
As of today, about 17% of land and inland water ecosystems and 8% of marine areas are within formal protected areas, with the total coverage increasing by 42% since the beginning of the last decade, according to the Protected Planet report by the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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