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Weather tracker: floods, storms and wildfires in Europe
North of continent records unusually wet and windy summer conditions while Portugal and Spain battle flames
Floods struck northern and central Europe last week. Some areas of Slovenia recorded more than 200mm of rain in 12 hours on Thursday and Friday, causing extensive flooding across two-thirds of the country. Many buildings and roads were damaged, at an estimated cost of €500m (£432m), and six deaths were reported.
Storm Hans hit the Baltic region a few days later. Hans originated as an area of low pressure over eastern Europe, but quickly deepened as it travelled northwards towards the Baltic Sea. The low was unusually deep for a summer storm, and led to daily rainfall totals of 80 to 100mm in parts of southern Norway and Sweden earlier this week.
Continue reading...NZ business, climate groups call for urgent clarity on ETS reform proposals, outcomes
Scientists unearth two new types of mole in eastern Turkey
DNA technology confirmed Talpa hakkariensis and Talpa davidiana tatvanensis as distinct from other moles
Scientists have identified two types of mole that they believe have been living undiscovered in Turkey.
DNA technology confirmed the creatures were biologically distinct from other moles. Both inhabit mountainous regions in eastern Turkey and can survive in temperatures of up to 50C (122F) in summer and under 2 metres (about 6ft) of snow in winter.
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How to protest climate change nicely, with Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin | First Dog on the Moon
We need a croc in every pool. An orca in every marina!
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including a waving seal pup, a hi-tech turtle and an overheated barn owl
Continue reading...‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy
Scientists stunned by unprecedented heat-stress event say they can only hope it ‘motivates and unites people’
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Corals across several countries are bleaching and dying en masse from unprecedented levels of heat stress, prompting fears that an unfolding tragedy in Central America, North America and the Caribbean could become a global event.
US government scientists have confirmed reefs in Panama, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Mexico and six countries in the Caribbean, including the Bahamas and Cuba, are suffering significant bleaching, alongside corals in Florida that began turning white almost a month ago.
Continue reading...Underwater vision shows 'unprecedented' mass coral bleaching event in the Americas – video
A mass coral bleaching event has hit reefs in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Scientists in the region have told Guardian Australia's environment reporter Graham Readfearn they have never seen anything like it before. The tragedy is unfolding early in the season and in areas not usually affected by coral bleaching, sparking fears it could become a global event
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Continue reading...It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess | Andy Beckett
From air-purified penthouses and private jets, a wealthy anti-green lobby feigns common cause with ‘ordinary people’. Let’s expose that
In Britain and far beyond, anti-environmentalists have a new favourite argument. No longer able to claim the climate crisis isn’t happening, they have switched from denial to class warfare. They argue that green policies and innovations from electric cars to heat pumps, low emission zones to eco-taxes and levies, are all unaffordable for working-class and many middle-class people, yet are being imposed regardless by an out-of-touch elite of politicians, bureaucrats and wealthy “woke capitalists”.
Most of the people making these arguments in the rightwing media were never previously much troubled by the financial struggles of what they now piously call “ordinary people”. But shamelessly shifting position is a familiar activity for the modern right. Meanwhile the cost of living crisis has given its anti-green message more force.
Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Australia’s biggest solar thermal plant takes “big step forward” with digital twin
Vast Solar partners with global design and manufacturing firm to take the next step forward on its VS1 project, the 30MW/288MWh plant in South Australia.
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Australian defence department accused of safety failures after soldiers mauled by crocodile in north Queensland
Comcare announces department has been charged and may be fined $1.5m for allegedly failing to properly train personnel
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Australia’s Department of Defence could be given a $1.5m fine for failing to properly train its personnel after two of its soldiers were mauled by a crocodile.
The federal government’s workplace watchdog, Comcare, announced on Friday the department had been charged for failing its duties under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
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Continue reading...Cannon-Brookes lashes out at “toxic” AGL, but says it is “fixable”
Mike Cannon-Brookes describes AGL - in which he is the biggest shareholder - as a toxic company that can be fixed.
The post Cannon-Brookes lashes out at “toxic” AGL, but says it is “fixable” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Pulp and paper majors launch Amazon biodiversity protection programme
Russia launches first space mission to Moon in 47 years
Solar Insiders Podcast: Volt from the blue
We talk to Peter Leeson about the rise and rise of his Australian made Volt solar tile, which is being installed on rooftops in every state in Australia – and setting records overseas.
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British sign language gets climate change update
How do you sign 'carbon footprint' in BSL?
German emissions fall 9% in first half of 2023, renewables at 55 pct of grid power
Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell nine per cent in the first half of the year as a weakening economy deflated energy use.
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Rio to build biggest solar farm in Canada’s north to help power diamond mine
Rio Tinto to install 55MW solar farm just south of the Arctic Circle to help power the huge Diavik diamond mine which is to close in a few years.
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Chevron invests in carbon sequestration research projects in Western Australia
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