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EU fossil generation falls more than one-fifth in 2023
‘You can be happy in prison’: climate protester reflects on punishment
Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker received the longest sentences given to non-violent protesters in UK
Last year, Morgan Trowland was one of two Just Stop Oil protesters sentenced to more than two and a half years in prison for scaling the Dartford crossing.
The sentences handed down to Trowland and Marcus Decker are the longest sentences yet given to non-violent protesters in the UK. Now, after his release on licence last month, Trowland says the 13 months he spent behind bars hardly felt like punishment at all.
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GX working group calls for broad measures to improve Japan’s voluntary carbon market
Colossal pliosaur sea monster skull on display in Dorset
AU Market: ACCU price starts 2024 at 6-month high
Blue groper: man fined $500 for killing protected fish in Sydney
Cronulla residents believe speared fish may have been ‘Gus’, a 35- to 40-year-old blue groper known to swimmers and divers in the area
A man has been fined $500 for spearing a protected fish species in Sydney over the weekend.
NSW police have confirmed officers spoke to a 26-year-old man on Saturday following reports a blue groper (Achoerodus viridis) was speared and killed at Oak Park in Cronulla.
Continue reading...Crocs love feral pigs and quolls have a taste for rabbit – but it doesn't solve the invasive species problem
Rooftop solar PV gorilla roars again, meets all demand in one state in holiday peak
As 2023 wrapped up, some new records were achieved in Australia’s energy transition, particularly in Victoria and South Australia, where rooftop PV met all state demand at one stage.
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John Howard killed emissions trading plan in 2003 after industry lobbying – cabinet papers
Cabinet papers reveal John Howard killed proposed emissions trading scheme in 2003 after meeting "industry" leaders. Even Joe "wind turbines are offensive" Hockey was on board.
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Growing proportion of England’s flood defences in disrepair, analysis finds
Poor state of critical assets in many parts of country leaves thousands of homes and businesses more vulnerable to storms
Ministers have been told they will be “punished” by voters after analysis revealed the decline of vital flood defences across England.
The proportion of critical assets in disrepair has almost trebled in the West Midlands and the east of England since 2018, leaving thousands of homes and businesses more vulnerable to storms.
Continue reading...Great Ormond Street to look at home air pollution when diagnosing illnesses
Pioneering initiative to consider children’s addresses after coroner ruled air pollution a factor in death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, nine
Doctors at Great Ormond Street are being encouraged to consider air pollution levels at their patients’ home addresses when assessing the causes of their illnesses, under an innovative pilot scheme.
Data showing the average annual air pollution rates at patients’ postcodes has been embedded in patients’ electronic files, so that clinicians can help families understand whether their child has been exposed to elevated risk.
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‘Amazing’: Queensland mum uses electric car to ‘save’ son’s life with dialysis during power outage
Kristy Holmes always knew she could use her electric car for ‘good things’, but when storms caused a blackout, it proved life-saving
An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s lifesaving dialysis machine and another has ridden to the rescue of his neighbours after devastating storms cut power in south-east Queensland.
When the power went down following storms and flash flooding on Christmas Day, many residents immediately felt the consequences: electric gates did not work, septic tanks began to fill, air conditioners could not run and fridges began to warm as a heatwave followed.
Continue reading...Australia’s best agency photography for 2023 – in pictures
Protests, natural disasters and First Nations pride were among the memorable images from the past year taken by Australia’s wire agency photographers
Continue reading...Sunak under fire for ‘inexplicable’ failure to appoint new climate committee chief
Experts say prolonged delay in replacing chair signals that government does not take net zero policy seriously enough and is harming investment
Rishi Sunak has come under fierce attack from UK climate experts for his government’s failure over the past 18 months to appoint a new chair of the independent committee that advises ministers on emissions targets.
In a letter to the prime minister leaked to the Observer, the UK’s leading organisation working on the economic effects of global warming condemned the “excessive delay” in finding a replacement to previous chair Lord Deben.
Continue reading...Climate scientists hail 2023 as ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuel era
Cautious optimism among experts that emissions from energy use may have peaked as net zero mission intensifies
Global efforts to slow a runaway climate catastrophe may have reached a critical milestone in the last year with the peak of global carbon emissions from energy use, according to experts.
A growing number of climate analysts believe that 2023 may be recorded as the year in which annual emissions reached a pinnacle before the global fossil fuel economy begins a terminal decline.
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