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Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows
Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents
When Luke Harris takes his daughter to the doctor, he strolls down well-kept streets with “smooth sidewalks and curb cuts [ramps] for strollers at every intersection”. If the weather looks rough or he feels a little lazy, he hops on a tram for a couple of stops.
Harris’s trips to the paediatrician are pretty unremarkable for fellow residents of Zurich, Switzerland; most Europeans are used to being able to walk from one place to another in their cities. But it will probably sound like fantasy to those living in San Antonio, Texas. That’s because, according to new research, 99.2% of Zurich residents live within a 15-minute walk of essential services such as healthcare and education, while just 2.5% of San Antonio residents do.
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US SEC disbands climate and ESG enforcement task force -media
US DOE announces $15 mln to reduce oil and gas methane emissions
Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge | Calla Wahlquist
Cultural protection order has been framed as a push to curry favour with inner-city seats, ignoring grassroots campaigns from Indigenous and non-Indigenous locals
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Among the concerns listed by the 2,000 farmers who converged on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra last week was the protection of prime agricultural land from renewable energy developments.
It has become a common refrain. The National party leader, David Littleproud, warned at the party’s annual federal council on Friday of the risk to prime agricultural land from energy transition projects. The mining magnate Gina Rinehart took to the stage at a business event last year to warn that one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural land could be “taken over” by renewable energy projects. In almost every campaign against a proposed development in the bush, the potential impact on prime agricultural land is raised as a key concern.
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Continue reading...The environment was meant to be ‘back on the priority list’ under Labor. Instead, we’ve seen a familiar story | Adam Morton
There have been moments of modest progress, but the Albanese government has not lived up to its early rhetoric
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It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Back in the heady new government days of July 2022, Tanya Plibersek told the National Press Club that change was coming for environmental protection in Australia after a decade of disaster and neglect.
Releasing the five-yearly state of the environment report, which the previous Coalition government had received months earlier but put in a drawer until it was turfed from office, the new environment minister said it told a “story of crisis and decline in Australia’s environment”.
Continue reading...Net zero a ‘vast challenge’ with EU, US to miss NDCs, say analysts
Morocco to fulfil carbon tax, fossil fuel levy promises in 2025
CEFC invests $70m to help electrify and decarbonise maritime ports
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‘Climate funding cliff’: 2.7% of EU GDP needed every year to reach net zero -study
Protected areas largely fail to prevent forest loss, study says
Australian cattle body seeks to exempt agricultural lands from EU deforestation rules
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Storm Boris batters central Europe – in pictures
Storm Boris has caused several deaths, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes across Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia
Continue reading...Hot queen conch seeks cool mates: Florida’s new ‘speed dating’ service to save endangered shellfish
Soaring sea temperatures have made the celebrated gastropod lethargic and infertile, so scientists are helping the threatened species to reproduce
Of the many novel initiatives dreamed up by scientists to protect threatened species from the ravages of record ocean temperatures, Florida’s new “speed dating for shellfish” programme might be about the most extraordinary.
Researchers are acting as matchmakers for the queen conch, a mollusc with iconic status in the Florida Keys, by removing them from the heat of their nearshore habitat and relocating them to deeper, cooler waters where a plethora of potential new partners awaits.
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