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Aerial pictures show Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupting – video

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-06-04 11:09

Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, has begun erupting in a remote area that last saw an eruption half-century ago, the US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The eruption is about 1.6 km (1 mile) south of the Kilauea caldera, in an area within Hawaii Volcanoes national park that last erupted in December 1974. The area surrounding the caldera has been closed to the public since 2008 because of other hazards, including ground cracking, instability in the crater wall and rockfalls.

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Arrest warrant issued for Aboriginal activist who says he is not an Australian citizen

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-06-04 10:42

Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta refused to attend court on charges of trespassing over an anti-forestry protest

A Hobart magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for an Aboriginal activist who refused to attend court on charges stemming from a protest because he does not consider himself an Australian citizen.

Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta says he wants to highlight the destruction of forests and issues of Indigenous sovereignty.

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INTERVIEW: Paraguay a promising hotspot for LATAM carbon markets, says developer

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 10:28
Asuncion has reassured voluntary market (VCM) stakeholders with its low risk profile, favourability to carbon markets, and facilitating frameworks, enticing project proponents despite the country’s small size, an international developer told Carbon Pulse in Buenos Aires on Monday.
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Price containment mechanisms buffer WCI ETS from technological uncertainties, limited impact from facility caps -think tank

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 10:06
Dynamic allowance supply from price containment mechanisms could provide flexibility and reduce uncertainties through varying technological outcomes in California, while facility-specific caps could ensure emissions reductions in disadvantaged communities with minimal impact on the market, according to a think tank report.
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Analysts revise down near-term CCA forecasts amid workshop disappointment, predict low auction clear in Washington

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 10:04
Analysts lowered their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) price estimates in light of workshop letdowns, but nevertheless foresaw an uptick in values following clarity regarding programme adjustments, and also projected a low auction clear in Washington's carbon market.
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What’s behind the global orange juice supply crisis and will Australians be affected? | Imran Ali

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-06-04 09:44

A bad forecast for the fruit harvest in Brazil could have knock-on effects on the price of Aussie breakfast beverages and beyond

Oranges – and all the things we can make from them – are big business. But the industry is facing a severe crisis.

About 50m tonnes of oranges are grown each year, 34% of them in Brazil. Brazil is also the world’s biggest exporter of orange juice by far, producing about 70% of global supply.

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RGGI Market: RGAs retreat from record highs on low volumes ahead of Q2 auction

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 09:37
RGGI allowances (RGAs) reached an all-time high last Wednesday before tailing off at the end of the week, as market participants largely look to the upcoming second auction of the year despite expressing varying degrees of confidence in recent historic prices.
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FEATURE: Major carbon removal project in US Gulf Coast faces substantial storage challenges

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 09:05
Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding currently back a direct air capture (DAC) project in the US Gulf Coast, but the developers have yet to reach a final decision on storage of captured CO2, while academics and community members heed caution towards industry scale-up in the region.
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Peat was historically mined overseas because it burns so well. But Australia’s subtropical peat bogs need fire to survive

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-06-04 06:06
Uniquely, an Australian subtropical peatland ecosystem exists that is not only resilient to the frequent bushfires, but actually needs fire to survive. Catherine Yule, Professor of Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Australia’s ‘learning by doing’ approach to managing large mines is failing the environment

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-06-04 06:06
Conflict between coal giant Adani, the Queensland government and traditional owners over harm to groundwater ecosystems stems from a flawed interpretation of the ‘adaptive management’ approach. Matthew Currell, Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Griffith University Adrian Werner, Professor of Hydrogeology, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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EU’s CBAM may hurt bloc’s manufacturers more than int’l ones -NGO

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 02:36
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) might hurt industrial manufacturers based in Europe more than those in third countries due to loopholes and its limited scope, according to a report published by a Brussels-based climate NGO.
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INTERVIEW: Crucial for compliance schemes to be tech agnostic when integrating carbon removals

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 02:26
A startup accelerator has stressed the need for a tech-agnostic approach when integrating carbon removals into the UK and EU compliance schemes, pointing to the early-stage nature of the market and fact that some methods are still in development.
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VCM Report: Voluntary carbon trade dries up at end of May as market waits for CCPs to brighten June

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:58
Thin liquidity continued to stalk the market last week, although a number of high-priced trades, and expectations that the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) could soon approve the first methodologies for the CCPs quality label, kept optimism upbeat.
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Developers team up to scale nature-based solutions in Latin America, eye biodiversity credits

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:31
French and Peru-based developers of nature-based solution projects have partnered to scale up reforestation, afforestation, and agroforestry initiatives in Latin America, aiming to generate both carbon and biodiversity credits.
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Von der Leyen presidency sees fossil fuels squeezed out of EU power mix -analysts

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:10
Since 2019, when the current Ursula von der Leyen-led European Commission took office, coal and gas has been rapidly pushed out of the EU power mix, with her presidency a driving force behind this trend, according to analysis released Monday.
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Demand uncertainty threatens European shipping e-fuel projects –NGO

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:05
Two-thirds of European green shipping fuel projects are at risk due to lack of certainty from investors, according to a new report.
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Australian photography auction – in pictures

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:00

The Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), the proud custodian of more than 3,860 photographs, is holding a fundraising auction in Melbourne, with the proceeds of the sales shared equally with the contributing artists

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If regional communities don’t want a wind farm, why would they accept a nuclear power station? | Gabrielle Chan

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:00

The Coalition’s nuclear policy is leveraged on regional discontent over renewables. But many farmers don’t want nuclear in their back yard either

Here’s the thing about the Coalition’s latest nuclear policy. It tries to use one of the most contentious issues in rural areas, which is the rollout of renewables and the electricity transmission lines to carry energy around the country, to push an even more controversial energy transition.

Because nuclear power stations would also be built in the regions. And if you’re worried about renewables, hands up who wants a nuclear reactor next door?

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An orchard: a place where you tame trees, or try to – an act of hope | Helen Sullivan

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-06-04 01:00

My grandmother’s orchard stopped me in my tracks, and I only have to read the word to feel the shade of those trees

My grandmother had a small orchard in her garden in Johannesburg. It was a few plum and peach trees, and very shady. The leaves of the plum trees were purpley-green, almost black, and the ground was covered with the pits of decayed peaches, so that when I ran barefoot across the sunny garden with its dry grass, and into the orchard, I was forced to stop; it was like running over hard pebbles. And when I stood still, it was dark and smelled like rotting fruit. There were gnats hovering near the ground. I lifted my foot and looked at the hard folds on the peach pit. My shadow stopped at the orchard’s border, it could not cross.

An orchard is a place where you tame trees, or try to. To plant one is an act of hope, the belief that home will mean abundance, that it is good to put down roots. “These trees came to stay,” is how Richard Wilbur opens his poem Young Orchard.

the shadows of long pines down trackless slopes,
the shadows of glass-faced towers down evening streets,
the shadow of a frail plant on a city sill—

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battalions of starlings waging peaceful cries,
bearing the net higher, covering this world
like the vines of an orchard, or a mother drawing
the trembling gauze over the trembling eyes
of a child fluttering to sleep;

it was the light

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