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Activists warn of ‘extreme anger’ if ministers fail to reform water regulator

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 15:00

Sources say government has dismissed some of the more ambitious ideas for fixing sewage crisis

Anti-sewage campaigners have warned of “extreme anger” if the Labour government does not radically reform the water regulator.

Sources at the Environment Agency (EA) and in the Labour party have told the Guardian that while Labour had spent time considering reforms of the EA and Ofwat in order to fix the sewage crisis, some stricter options that had been proposed were now off the table.

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Earth’s oldest, tiniest creatures are poised to be climate change winners – and the repercussions could be huge

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-08-14 14:37
The rise of ‘pyrokaryotes’ could reduce the availability of fish humans eat, and hamper the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon emissions. Ryan Heneghan, Lecturer in Environmental Modelling, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Police remove climate protesters from Parliament House in Canberra – video

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 14:34

Climate protesters were removed from Parliament House by police on Wednesday morning. In a statement, the protesters said they felt 'betrayed by the Albanese government’s abandonment of major reform to our environment laws earlier this year, following pressure from coal and gas companies'

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Major Korean automaker enters domestic voluntary carbon market

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 14:04
The automotive finance arm of a major carmaker in South Korea has created a business model that can generate carbon credits for electric vehicles by leveraging the parent group's resources.
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California ARB’s modified LCFS draft rules briefly send credit prices in a tizzy

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 12:01
ARB issued a 15-day notice late Monday for accepting public comments to modifications of proposed changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), sending credit futures in the secondary market trading through a wide intraday range on Tuesday.
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PREVIEW: July 10 ARB workshop tempers WCI Q3 auction settlement expectations

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 11:04
Market participants expect the upcoming WCI auction on Wednesday to settle at the lowest level in more than a year and at a discount to front-month futures, while analysts forecast a broad range of estimates considering a mix of bearish market sentiment and opportunistic buying from speculators. 
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Despair as the sea slowly swallows a Kenyan beauty spot

BBC - Wed, 2024-08-14 10:55
Local authorities are seeking to build a seawall to prevent further intrusion of the ocean to the village.
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US DOE opens $54 mln funding opportunity for array of carbon management technologies

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 09:11
The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened Tuesday applications for $54.4 million in funding to support the development of technologies for the capture, transport, conversion, and storage of CO2.
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Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 09:01

Unicef analysis also finds children in eight countries spend more than half the year in temperatures above 35C

Almost half a billion children are growing up in parts of the world where there are at least twice the number of extremely hot days every year compared with six decades ago, analysis by Unicef has found.

The analysis by the UN’s children’s agency examined for the first time data on changes in children’s exposure to extreme heat over the past 60 years.

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More cattle kept in UK ‘megafarms’, BBC finds

BBC - Wed, 2024-08-14 09:00
Campaigners warn more cows could be spending their entire productive lives indoors.
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RSPB criticised by watchdog for accusing politicians of being liars on X

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 09:00

Charity Commission says tweets about environmental protections were inappropriate in ‘tone and nature’

The RSPB has been criticised by the English charities watchdog over social media posts in which it accused named government ministers of being “liars” for watering down environmental protections.

The Charity Commission said the tweets a year ago were “inappropriate” in “tone and nature”, they had not been signed off at the correct level and the RSPB could have done more to prevent them going out.

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Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 08:01

Fires made at least three times more likely by climate crisis and emitted about 2bn tonnes of CO2, data reveals

Canada’s “record-shattering” wildfires last year produced nearly as much greenhouse gas emissions in one season as would be expected over a decade of fires in normal circumstances, data has shown.

The fires, in Canada’s “wildest season ever”, were made at least three times more likely by the climate crisis, and produced about 2bn tonnes of CO2, about a quarter of the total global emissions from wildfires last year, according to data in the State of Wildfires report, published on Wednesday.

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Two polar bears kill Canadian worker in rare attack

BBC - Wed, 2024-08-14 07:55
The person who was killed worked at a remote radar site in Canada's Arctic region.
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