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UK power station still burning rare forest wood

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-28 15:52
Owner Drax, which received £6bn in subsidies, continues to burn timber from Canadian trees - BBC finds.
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UK power station burns wood from rare forests

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-28 15:52
Drax used timber from precious Canadian trees while taking billions in environmental subsidies, BBC finds.
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Aerial surveys of Great Barrier Reef ordered after flights confirm mass coral bleaching

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-28 15:03

Helicopter flights over almost 50 reefs off the Queensland coast found bleaching was “extensive and fairly uniform”

The Great Barrier Reef’s management authority is preparing to carry out aerial surveys across the entire length of the marine park after helicopter flights confirmed extensive coral bleaching across the southern section of the world’s biggest coral reef.

The Guardian reported last week that bleaching was being reported in all regions of the reef from Lizard Island in north to the Keppel islands in the south – a distance of more than 1,100 kilometres.

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Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-02-28 14:09
Small modular reactors are popular among conservative politicians and supposedly the Australian public. But they’re nowhere near ready to power Australia in time to replace coal-powered stations. John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Apple unplugs electric car project, reports say

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-28 10:34
The firm never acknowledged the project publicly but had recruited thousands of car engineers.
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Catalonia's farmers demand more help over drought

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-28 10:05
As Spain continues to be blighted by a lack of rain, farmers want more government assistance.
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Catalonia's farmers demand more help over drought

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-28 10:05
As Spain continues to be blighted by a lack of rain, farmers want more government assistance.
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UK urged against carrying surplus emissions over to next carbon budget

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-28 10:01
The UK government must not carry its surplus of emissions over to the next carbon budget, as the focus of decarbonisation shifts from electricity to tougher-to-abate sectors, the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) warned on Wednesday. 
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Carbon pricing most effective tax policy for reaching US emissions reductions goal -report

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-28 09:58
The implementation of a carbon fee alongside the continuation of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits would yield the most significant and cost-effective emissions reductions for the US, according to modelling results published Tuesday by a DC-based think tank.
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State legislature should enact affordability, reliability guardrails on New York climate efforts -think tank

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-28 09:09
New York's legislature should assert more authority by setting supply and price limits itself under the state's future cap-and-invest programme, to help ensure that overall climate efforts sufficiently consider the affordability and reliability of energy, according to a report from a think tank published Tuesday.
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We can’t say yet if grid-breaking thunderstorms are getting worse – but we shouldn’t wait to find out

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-02-28 08:57
Extreme winds from thunderstorms have downed transmission towers from Victoria to Western Australia in recent years. What’s going on? Andrew Dowdy, Principal Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne Andrew Brown, Ph.D. student, The University of Melbourne Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Claire Vincent, Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, The University of Melbourne Michael Brear, Director, Melbourne Energy Institute, The University of Melbourne Pierluigi Mancarella, Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems, The University of Melbourne Todd Lane, Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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EU carbon-backed digital token startup shuts down amid regulatory, financial difficulties

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-28 08:32
A startup that lets investors buy digital tokens backed by physical EU carbon allowances has shut down due regulatory and financial difficulties.
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