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Madrid is one of the hottest cities on Earth. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? | Felicity Hughes
Increasing tree cover in urban areas could reduce heat-related deaths – but a fight has ensued between corporate interests and residents
It’s 9pm on a blistering July night in Plaza de Santa Ana, a square at the heart of Madrid’s literary district. The thermometer has barely dropped below 39C, but despite the heat a 78-year-old woman climbs on to a bench to give an impassioned speech to a 200-strong crowd.
“Did you think we weren’t going to be here, Señor Almeida?” She scans the crowd, searching for José Luis Martínez-Almeida, Madrid’s mayor, while anguished cries of “Arboricida!” (tree murder) punctuate the silence. Her face is immediately recognisable. She is movie star Marisa Paredes, an actor immortalised in Almodóvar classics such as High Heels – just one of many activists trying to stop what seems like a concerted campaign to strip central Madrid of its trees.
Continue reading...World’s biggest battery storage project gets underway in Chile
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Solar farms can benefit nature and boost biodiversity. Here’s how
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Minuscule wasps enlisted to fight off moths in new pest control strategy
Rentokil to use the wasps as a sustainable alternative to sprays in museums and homes
The newest recruits for the battle against moths will be the smallest pest control team in town.
Rentokil plans to release entosite parasitoid wasps into the nooks and crannies of museums, heritage sites and homes to stop moth infestations.
Continue reading...Radical change needed to upgrade system to handle tidal effect of renewables, EVs and rooftop solar
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Rio gets state support to shift Boyne smelters to renewables, says federal help needed too
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The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga
Origin makes clean sweep of big utilities cashing in on high prices. Will they now go green?
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Oregon details final considerations for policy changes to its clean fuels programme
Islands in the sky: could steep-sided hilltops offer safe haven to our threatened species?
Queensland coal giant buys construction-ready wind farm once rejected by federal Coalition
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Is Eraring reliable? Origin says biggest coal plant prone to trips when needed most
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Mexico’s Queretaro, environmental markets platform launch national carbon offsetting registry
ARB offset issuance YTD trails 2023 by 30%
Study correlates IMO regulations’ reduced sulphur emissions to inadvertently accelerate global warming
UK big business to increase carbon credit spend tenfold, finds survey
Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned
District councils in low-lying areas say they have cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to fund pumping stations
The costs of preventing major floods caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall have fuelled a growing financial crisis among district councils in low-lying areas of England, ministers have been warned.
Districts in the east of the country say they are having to cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to meet dramatic and unsustainable rises in payments levied to fund pumping stations used to protect communities from flooding.
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