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For those with power and rich donors – the AC is always on, even if it’s melting outside | George Monbiot

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-07 21:30

This has been a summer of extreme heat around the world. The Guardian is investigating how it harms our planet and leaves the world’s most vulnerable people exposed to its impact

A staple of dystopian science fictions is an inner sanctum of privilege and an outer world – chemical desert/airless waste/District 12 – peopled by the desperate poor. The insiders, living off the exploited labour of the outlands, are indifferent to the horrors beyond their walls. Well, here we are.

Even as extreme heat raged across the southern United States this summer, the governors of Florida and Texas struck down heat protections for outdoor workers. Construction companies and agricultural firms lobbied against the rights of workers to water, shade and rest breaks when temperatures soar – and Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, two men also lavishly funded by the fossil fuel industry, gave them what they wanted.

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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 21:18
European carbon prices struggled for direction on Wednesday morning amid the lack of a daily auction, wider macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, and closely tracking a flat TTF gas market, as investment funds trimmed their net short position 25% last week, according to Commitment of Traders data.
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Scientists say nature-based credit markets must prove additionality before sales

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 21:14
Nature-based carbon and biodiversity markets should only sell credits after their impact has been scientifically proven in a bid to make them credible and scale investments, a new study has said.
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Japanese power giant joins Australian CCS hopeful, government hands out more permits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 20:15
Carbon capture and storage work is ramping up in Australia as one project proponent handed two offshore permits last week on Wednesday announced another partnership with a Japanese giant, and the federal government handed out three new offshore permits.
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Spanish wind and solar projects secure loans to bolster EU energy independence

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 19:45
Two renewable energy projects in Spain will borrow €85 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) under EU plans to reduce dependence on fossil fuel imports.
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Chinese dairy firm to introduce biogas project, create international credits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 19:16
A dairy product supplier in China is planning to tap into the international carbon market by launching a biogas utilisation project. 
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Singapore sends energy transition bill to Parliament for first reading

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 19:10
Singapore has introduced an energy transition bill to Parliament for its first reading to progress its decarbonisation process via introducing guardrails for the electricity market, strengthening the Energy Market Authority’s (EMA) ability to regulate the power sector, and establishing the Future Energy Fund.
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US carbon removals firm launches sales platform

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 18:34
A US-based startup has this week launched an online platform that enables individuals, households, and small businesses to buy carbon removals credits.
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Japanese trio to develop integrated decarbonisation solution

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-07 16:53
One of Japan's largest trading houses has formed a partnership with two domestic companies to develop a combined decarbonisation solution for corporate clients.
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Sea lions wearing cameras and trackers map new habitats

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-08-07 15:05
Using cameras and trackers attached to Australian sea lions, we explored previously unmapped ocean habitats off the South Australian coast. The data also fed into predictive computer models. Nathan Angelakis, PhD Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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‘I turned into a solar nerd’: money and fun were the unexpected benefits of installing panels

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-07 15:00

Our former environment correspondent had solar panels installed in 2010 and later added a heat pump. He’s totted up the energy generated and cash saved over the years

An abiding memory of a day in August 2010, the first time my solar panels were connected to the grid, was of the builders downing tools and watching the electricity meter whiz round backwards.

It was a sunny day and they were supposed to be finishing the plastering and insulation, but the novel sight of the old-style electricity meter in reverse was too entertaining.

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Take a tour of the South Australian seabed on the back of a sea lion - video

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-07 14:15

Eight Australian sea lions were enlisted to map the ocean floor by sticking cameras with satellite tracking to their backs. Almost 90 hours of footage and 500km later, conservationists hope to have much clearer ideas on how to protect the sea lions.  “I can watch this stuff for hours,” says Prof Simon Goldsworthy. “It’s like the best slow TV ever. You just don’t know what you’re going to see next.”

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‘Best slow TV ever’: scientists mount cameras on endangered sea lions to map Australia’s ocean floor

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-07 14:14

Eight females from two seal colonies have filmed almost 90 hours across more than 500km, helping scientists map 5,000 sq km of habitat

The Australian sea lions glide and dart through underwater tunnels, over seagrass beds and rocky reefs, searching for a meal and dancing with dolphins around a giant bait ball of fish – all the action captured by a camera stuck on their back.

“I can watch this stuff for hours,” says Prof Simon Goldsworthy. “It’s like the best slow TV ever. You just don’t know what you’re going to see next.”

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UK failing to monitor apparently falling wasp populations, expert warns

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-07 14:00

Gardeners and pest controllers say wasps, important predators and pollinators, appear to be in sharp decline

The UK is not doing enough to track wasp populations as numbers appear to plummet, a leading expert has warned.

While there were national monitoring schemes for some invertebrates, including bees and butterflies, there was no such programme in place for wasps, said Dr Gavin Broad, principal curator of wasps at the Natural History Museum.

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I’ve researched crocodile attacks for years. Videos of people feeding crocodiles at site of latest attack are deeply concerning

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-08-07 12:28
Videos have surfaced appearing to show people feeding a crocodile in the same area where a crocodile killed a man who slipped from the river bank into the water. Brandon Michael Sideleau, PhD student studying human-saltwater crocodile conflict, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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