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More than coral: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-04-22 15:46
Bleached coral draws our attention, but marine heat does damage to many unseen parts of these ecosystems. John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney Emma Johnston, Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney Graeme Clark, Senior Research Fellow, Marine Biology, University of Sydney Steph Gardner, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Science, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Climate tech, greener industry play key role in European venture capital recovery

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-22 15:00
Deals in climate tech and industrial decarbonisation played a key role in driving the recovery of European venture capital in Q1 2024, as investors seek opportunities to tackle the climate crisis, according to an analyst report.
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New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous | Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-04-22 13:11

Proposed ‘fast-track’ law could see conservation concerns ignored and projects once rejected for environmental reasons given the green light

New Zealand’s parliament is considering a law that would allow major development projects to bypass environmental approvals – and that should be a cause for extreme alarm.

The proposed Fast-track Approvals Bill emerged from the coalition agreements that enabled a centre-right government to form after last year’s election.

Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis are professors of law at the University of Otago.

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Europe’s ‘State of the Climate’ report sees global warming impacts getting worse

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-22 12:01
Europe was severely impacted by climate change last year, according to data released today by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organisation, and things seem only to be getting worse.
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Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-04-22 12:00

Europeans are dying from hot weather 30% more than they did two decades ago, report finds

Scorching weather has baked Europe in more days of “extreme heat stress” than its scientists have ever seen.

Heat-trapping pollutants that clog the atmosphere helped push temperatures in Europe last year to the highest or second-highest levels ever recorded, according to the EU’s Earth-watching service Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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Australia Market Roundup: Capacity Investment Scheme targets 6 GW of renewables in May, ACCU issuance increases

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-22 11:45
The federal government has announced 6 gigawatts of new variable renewable energy projects will go out for tender in May, as part of its Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS).
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Our climate change record is strong, minister says

BBC - Sun, 2024-04-21 22:31
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho defends government after watchdog accuses PM of setting the UK back.
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A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it | John Harris

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-04-21 22:00

From right to roam to anger over polluted rivers, a new breed of activists is pushing back against environmental destruction

Something very interesting is happening in the UK, to do with nature, the expanses of land we think of as the countryside, and where all those things sit in our collective consciousness. The change has probably been quietly afoot for 20 or 30 years. Now, it suddenly seems to be blurring over from the cultural sphere into our politics, with one obvious consequence – the belated entry into the national conversation of issues that have long been pushed to the margins, from land access and ownership to the shocking condition of our rivers.

The prevailing British attitude to nature has long been in an equally messed-up state. From the 1600s onwards, endless enclosure acts pushed people off the land and seeded the idea of the countryside as somewhere largely out of bounds. Britain’s rapid industrialisation only accelerated the process. And despite occasional cultural and political tilts in the opposite direction – the bucolic visions of the 18th- and 19th-century Romantics, the mass trespass movement of the 1930s – most of us now show the signs of that long story of loss and estrangement.

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Ladybirds are meant to be lucky, but lucky for who?

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-04-21 17:00

Fly away home… You can have too much of a good thing

‘Look, a ladybird!’ This was how it started. My family were staying the night in a bed and breakfast near friends in rural England – we had driven through a landscape the colour of butter to park under a hillside upon which the shadows of clouds passed like curtains closing. I was medicated, pleasantly, can you tell, in a hangover from the most painful migraine of my life, and the clouds reminded me of the visual aura that flickers across your vision just before the headache begins. We put our bag on a chair, and there, inside the window frame, was a ladybird. And then, look, there was another one. The children gathered, by the window ready to be enchanted.

A group of ladybirds is called a “loveliness”, which, to me, sounds suspicious. Sounds problematic even. As if they have named themselves. A “conspiracy” of lemurs, that’s a good one, implies darkness, intelligence. A “bloat” of hippos, relatable. A “destruction” of wild cats, you’ve got a whole story there, beginning, middle, end. But a “loveliness”, please. Perhaps it’s my own must-work-on-it tendency towards tall poppy syndrome, perhaps I am inordinately disgusted by the ladybirds’ cloying self-satisfaction – I find the term embarrassing. However, there it was, a loveliness, crawling all over the window frame.

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Cote d’Ivoire asks Rabobank to suspend carbon credit activities in country amid numerous allegations

Carbon Pulse - Sun, 2024-04-21 11:29
The government of Cote d’Ivoire has reportedly asked Dutch bank Rabobank to suspend its carbon credit origination activities in the Nawa region of the country, claiming that emissions reductions previously sold to buyers including Microsoft were state property and contracted to another party.
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