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It’s global warming that will hurt the economy in red states, not a carbon tax.

A working paper recently published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond concludes that global warming could significantly slow economic growth in the US.

Specifically, rising summertime temperatures in the hottest states will curb economic growth. And the states with the hottest summertime temperatures are all located in the South: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Arizona. All of these states voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

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London scientist Tom Pike watches his experiment leave Earth on a six-month journey to Mars.

Mobile towers built in wrong places, what's next for the Murray Darling basin plan, and the Country Women's Association gets behind hemp seeds

Results show Carmichael mine in Queensland no longer a viable proposition, analysts say
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Adani’s coal-fired power business has reported more heavy losses, prompting the Indian conglomerate to announce it would shift away from using expensive imported coal.

Analysts say the fourth-quarter financial results for Adani Power, a subsidiary of the Adani group, showed the proposed Carmichael mega-mine in Queensland was no longer a viable proposition.

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The festival of snake-catchers (festa dei serpari) in Cocullo, Italy, is an annual religious procession in which the St Dominic’s statue is carried in procession, covered with living snakes

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9 May 1918 The plantations here are very varied – pine and spruce and Scotch fir and larch, mixed with beech and birch and oak

Wotton (Surrey) May 8.
The twisted, angular stems of the “Hurts” (as whortle-berries are called in Surrey) have broken into leaves, tinted red and brown, and the heath-like flowers hang little lanterns all over the bushes. These flowers take on a bright pink light when the sun shines through them.

All about this country a great deal of tree-felling is being done, but some care is being taken to disfigure the scene as little as possible. The skyline is often preserved and the edges of roads, so that until you penetrate into the woods, you do not find the havoc. The plantations here are very varied – pine and spruce and Scotch fir and larch, mixed with beech and birch and oak. The air is full of a delicious mixture of scents – the resin of the conifers, the fruity, cocoa-nut smell of the gorse in sunshine, the indescribably personal smell of young bracken. No tree, perhaps, is more irregular in coming out than the beech. In the same tree there will be a few lower branches in full leaf while all the rest is dormant. There are whole plantations which still show the uniform glowing red-brown of the tightly scrolled buds; in others the pale green leaves, incredibly tender, are still fringed with silver hairs. A few oaks make patches of golden green. The wayfaring tree is almost as grey as a carnation leaf, its umbels still tightly folded in their felted covering. From the junipers, as you brush by them, rise clouds of sulphur-coloured pollen; the whole prickly little bush has a glaucous tint, and so have the last year’s fruits which cluster along the stem.

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Long-awaited review of precarious transport fuel security released by federal government – but are EVs being taken into account?

A site at Kwinana, south of Perth, has been earmarked for one of world's biggest lithium refineries.

Dr Craik invites written submissions from farmers and any interested stakeholders, comments are invited from Monday 7 May until Friday 15 June 2018.

Dr Craik invites written submissions from farmers and any interested stakeholders, comments are invited from Monday 7 May until Friday 15 June 2018.

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has launched its Innovation Grants Round and will accept applications from not for profit organisations in Victoria.

New chairman's views on climate change and climate scientists is a bad sign on how AMP will handle climate risk.

Owners and developers of new and existing wind and solar projects in Victoria warned of potential curtailment, network limits and increased marginal loss factors. Building renewables is becoming more complex.

Genex is pleased to announce the implementation of changes to its Board and management as part of a positive and planned process of board renewal, which is designed to keep the Board fresh and dynamic, as well as being suited to the Company’s current operational phase, post listing.

A recyclable coffee cup could help replace the 2.5 billion disposable cups binned each year.

The global solar PV module market was valued at $36.71bn in 2017 and is estimated to reach $26.4bn, in 2021, registering a negative compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8% between 2017 and 2021.

A toxic chemical produced by algae and linked to motor neuron disease has been detected in NSW rivers. Its presence - long suspected but now confirmed - could be linked to a disease hotspot in the Riverina. Brendan Main, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Supporters say the oil firm has experience drilling in rough seas but conservationists fear damage to wildlife and fisheries

The cold and violent waters of the Great Australian Bight are home to one of the country’s most biodiverse and important marine ecosystems, the heart of its fishing industry, a growing tourism hotspot – and potentially its newest oil field.

Of the species in the bight, 85% are found nowhere else on the planet. It is a breeding ground for the endangered southern right whale and a feeding zone for Australian sea lions, great white sharks, migratory sperm whales and short-tailed shearwaters.

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Environmental fashion campaigner visits Tasmania to learn about wool production, its impact on the environment and mulesing

Livia Firth still has the wool sweaters she wore as a teenager. The environmental fashion campaigner, who grew up in Italy, remembers hand washing her sweaters each summer, carefully storing them away, then unpacking them the following winter. She would wear them year after year so she had to look after them. This was before fast, disposable fashion she says, “We did it a different way.”

These days, as the founder of Eco-Age, a brand consultancy firm that works with luxury fashion labels on improving their sustainability credentials, and as someone who makes frequent appearances on the red carpet alongside her Oscar-winning husband actor Colin Firth, she has an expanded wardrobe – yet it’s probably not as big as you may imagine. In 2010 Firth came up with the Green Carpet Challenge, using her visibility in front of the world’s media to wear only ethical, sustainable and repurposed fashion, and she’s often photographed repeatedly wearing the same gowns as part of her #30wears pledge.

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