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Key lawmakers seek to unlock EU Social Climate Fund in 2024-2032, but post-2027 funding looks uncertain
Boeing aims for new test launch of Starliner astronaut capsule
Extinction: Why scientists are freezing threatened species in 'biobanks'
Pharmacy in the sea: Dolphins ‘use coral as medicine for skin ailments’
New research suggests the cetaceans may be self-medicating for their skin ailments, adding to evidence of the medicinal properties of some corals and sponges
Who doesn’t like a bath scrub? Dolphins definitely do: they are known for being clever, playful, tactile animals, and they like to rub against rough surfaces, nap in coral beds and soak on sponges like guests at an underwater spa.
However, dolphins may be getting more from their bath scrubs than just relaxation and leisure. A study published today suggests that bottlenose dolphins may be self-medicating their skin ailments with the help of corals, adding to growing research on their previously unexplored medicinal properties.
Continue reading...Low-cost European airlines strengthen EUA hedging, forecast summer demand close to pre-pandemic levels
Investors paying lip-service to climate action, warns watchdog
Australia ranks as world’s worst for pollution from coal fired power stations
New analysis shows Australia remains the world's highest per capita emitter from coal generation, almost double the global average.
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ANALYSIS: Renewables offset projects flock to GCC despite uncertain rewards
Euro Markets: Midday Update
Australia’s Northern Territory EPA proposes new emissions guidelines, flags offset considerations
Dolphins can recognise each other by taste of their urine, study finds
Aquatic mammals can recognise friends and family members without seeing or hearing them
Dolphins are able to recognise one another by the taste of their urine, a study has found.
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered that the mammals can recognise friends and family members without seeing or hearing them.
Continue reading...Australian Market Roundup: Regulator issues 600K new ACCUs as Woodside gets nod for BHP merger
Why bike lanes don't make traffic worse – video
Cities in the UK and around the world are installing new bike lanes to help reduce emissions, but some claim they are making traffic worse. The argument goes that bike lanes means less space for cars and therefore more congestion. While this might sound plausible, it appears to hark back to outdated traffic management theory. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how traffic really works, and the actual impact of installing new bike lanes
Continue reading...G7 can lead the way to reduce global heavy industry emissions, IEA says
UK has approved several fossil fuel projects since Cop26, analysis finds
About 50 schemes are thought to be in pipeline between now and 2025 despite climate pledges
Several major UK fossil fuel projects have been approved since Cop26 concluded, an analysis has found, while about 50 schemes are thought to be in the pipeline between now and 2025.
Three separate schemes have received some form of approval from government bodies during the six-month period since Boris Johnson’s administration hosted the UN climate summit in Glasgow. Campaigners say his government is reaching a crunch point, with three major onshore schemes currently being appealed and the levelling up minister, Michael Gove, set to rule on a number of such applications over the next six weeks.
Continue reading...The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same | George Monbiot
Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar?
For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.
While financial collapse would have been devastating to human welfare, food system collapse doesn’t bear thinking about. Yet the evidence that something is going badly wrong has been escalating rapidly. The current surge in food prices looks like the latest sign of systemic instability.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Capturing the Climate crisis: the Evidence Project – in pictures
The Evidence Project is a photography-led campaign created by Britta Jaschinski, Keith Wilson and Arturo de Frías focusing on the impact of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the causes of viral pandemics. These images by many of the world’s leading photographers are their evidential proof to provoke governments, businesses, opinion leaders and consumers to initiate the changes required for a safe and sustainable future for all life on Earth. Central to this campaign is the production of a new crowdfunded book, which the creators expect to publish later this year
Continue reading...Here's how we track down and very carefully photograph Australia's elusive snakes
Somerset ‘super nature reserve’ will benefit UK’s rarest wildlife
Environmental organisations partner to create 15,000-acre protected wetland from Glastonbury to Bridgwater Bay
At this time of year the booming call of the bitterns resonates across the Avalon Marshes in Somerset while hawks skim over the reed beds and great white egrets nest in the shallows. The pools and ditches are alive with rare reptiles, mammals, insects and spiders.
Plans to improve the habitat for flora and fauna that live in one of the UK’s most extraordinary landscapes by creating a “super nature reserve” stretching from these marshes around Glastonbury to the edge of Bridgwater Bay were announced on Thursday.
Continue reading...Maoneng gets grid approval for Victoria’s newest “biggest battery”
Plan for 240MW/480MWh stand-alone big battery project on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula gains grid connection assessment approval.
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