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Rooftop solar pushes South Australia to record low demand (again)

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2017-11-06 10:00
Rooftop solar - along with sunny weather and mild temperatures - push grid demand in South Australia to yet another record low.
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Herbert Smith Freehills advises New Energy Solar on its ASX listing and A$300 million public offering

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2017-11-06 09:51
The IPO is expected to be priced at between A$1.45 and A$1.55 per stapled security, which will raise between A$100 million and A$300 million for a projected market capitalisation of between A$387.4 million and A$587.4 million.
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Redflow aims for 250 batteries per month from Thailand

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2017-11-06 09:35
ASX-listed Redflow announced last month that it has started installing battery production equipment at its new factory in Thailand, putting it on track to commence initial operation by the end of this year.
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Googong Foreshores added to Commonwealth Heritage List

Department of the Environment - Mon, 2017-11-06 09:31
Googong Foreshores Cultural and Geodiversity Area in the Canberra/Queanbeyan region has become our newest Commonwealth Heritage place, preserving and telling the story of our pastoral, Aboriginal, geological and natural history.
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Sharks in trouble as new census starts in Indo-Pacific

ABC Environment - Mon, 2017-11-06 06:53
Globally it's thought that shark populations and diversity are in decline, as scientists start the first systematic survey of sharks and rays in the Indo-Pacific.
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Five reasons not to spray the bugs in your garden this summer

The Conversation - Mon, 2017-11-06 05:16
If warmer weather is your sign to reach for the pesticide, think again. From better soil to your own army of beneficial bugs, here are five reasons to put down the insect spray. Lizzy Lowe, Postdoctoral fellow, Macquarie University Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Kate Umbers, Lecturer in Zoology, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Fracking protester warns: 'Yorkshire's gorgeous, but that can be taken away’

The Guardian - Mon, 2017-11-06 00:49

Test drilling by Third Energy expected to get go-ahead soon at Kirby Misperton, the first in UK since 2011

For the past year, Leigh Coghill has devoted her life to one thing – trying to stop the gas exploration company Third Energy from fracking on the outskirts of a tiny village in North Yorkshire. The 26-year-old from Wolverhampton, who “married into Yorkshire”, quit her job working for York council in November last year, deciding to devote herself to the cause.

Since September, when Third Energy started preparing the site at Kirby Misperton for drilling, she has been one of a group of around forty Ryedale locals to have spent almost every day protesting next to the gates to the well, holding banners and placards, and watching in dismay as lorries trundle in.

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The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn and why it matters

The Guardian - Sun, 2017-11-05 19:00

Halting dangerous global warming means putting the landmark Paris agreement into practice – without the US – and tackling the divisive issue of compensation

The world’s nations are meeting for the 23rd annual “conference of the parties” (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which aims to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”, ie halt global warming. It is taking place in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November.

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Anger over Trump support for coal at UN climate talks

BBC - Sun, 2017-11-05 18:26
US plans to promote coal as a solution to climate change at a key UN meeting rile environmentalists.
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The eco guide to big ethics

The Guardian - Sun, 2017-11-05 16:00

Is it good news or bad when environment-friendly brands are bought out by major industry players?

At a recent event held by the outdoor clothing brand Patagonia I detected a sheepish air. Nothing to do with eco wool, but rumours that the company was about to surpass a $1bn turnover.

I'd rather market share went to Patagonia than to brands without discernible values

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One step beyond organic or free-range: Dutch farmer’s chickens lay carbon-neutral eggs

The Guardian - Sun, 2017-11-05 10:05
Poultry owner claims his new approach has the highest welfare standards and lowest cost to environment

There’s the much-criticised battery hen egg, and then the pricier organic and free-range varieties. But for the truly ethically committed, how about the carbon-neutral egg, laid in what has been billed as the world’s most environmentally friendly farm?

Dutch stores are now selling so-called “Kipster eggs” laid at a shiny new farm near the south-eastern city of Venray. “Kip” means chicken in Dutch, “ster” means star, and it’s no coincidence the name rhymes with hipster. The intention is to rethink the place of animals in the food chain, according to Ruud Zanders, the poultry farmer and university lecturer behind the farm, which includes a visitor centre, corporate meeting room and even a free cappuccino machine.

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Our national parks need protection

ABC Environment - Sun, 2017-11-05 06:45
The ability of national parks to protect our natural heritage is being eroded, Carolyn Pettigrew says.
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‘For us, the land is sacred’: on the road with the defenders of the world’s forests

The Guardian - Sat, 2017-11-04 22:25
A busload of indigenous leaders have been crossing Europe to highlight their cause before the start of UN climate talks in Bonn

Of the many thousands of participants at the Bonn climate conference which begins on 6 November, there will arguably be none who come with as much hope, courage and anger as the busload of indigenous leaders who have been criss-crossing Europe over the past two weeks, on their way to the former German capital.

The 20 activists on the tour represent forest communities that have been marginalised over centuries but are now increasingly recognised as important actors against climate change through their protection of carbon sinks.

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Climate change: US report at odds with some in Trump team

BBC - Sat, 2017-11-04 18:59
A spokesman says climate is "always changing" after a report ties global warming to human activity.
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Coral bleaching badly affected reefs of Kimberley, study finds

The Guardian - Sat, 2017-11-04 16:05

Up to 80% of Kimberley’s inshore reef bleached in El Niño heatwave of 2016, with about 29% of the coral at Rottnest, off Perth, also affected

Up to 80% of coral in inshore reefs in the Kimberley was bleached during the global mass bleaching event that also affected 93% of the Great Barrier Reef in the summer of 2016-2016, according to new research.

Led by scientists from the University of Western Australia and published in Scientific Reports this week, the research found between 57% and 80% of corals in the Kimberley, particularly at Montgomery Reef, the largest inshore coral reef in Australia, were bleached in April 2016.

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Country diary: a storm here is a spectator​​ sport of the utmost drama

The Guardian - Sat, 2017-11-04 15:30

Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire To see how many features I once climbed have been battered away by wave and wind is a salutary lesson in human ambition

Meadowsweet still flowered along lanes through an obscenity of tank ranges; grasses riffled and glistened in the verges; far offshore, Lundy dipped in and out of view. Nowhere’s better in stormy weather than south Pembrokeshire’s Castlemartin peninsula. Here the elemental interplay of land and sea is slow-motion spectator sport of the utmost drama.

I was there when Storm Ophelia was at her raging height, to watch sculpting forces of weather at work on massively bedded, malleable limestone. In my decades as a rock climber, pioneering routes on this coast obsessed me. To look east from the Green Bridge of Wales and see how many of the features I had climbed have been battered away by wave and wind is a salutary lesson in human ambition.

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Tasmania is the roadkill capital of the world

ABC Environment - Sat, 2017-11-04 09:30
Possum, tawny frogmouth, platypus, turtle, quoll, endangered devil and raven. No animal is immune to death on Tasmanian roads where 32 animals die every hour. This episode of Off Track has been selected from the archives.
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Living with drought in Australia

ABC Environment - Sat, 2017-11-04 07:30
Rebecca Jones went back in time to see how farmers dealt with drought in Australia.
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US report finds climate change 90% manmade, contradicting Trump officials

The Guardian - Sat, 2017-11-04 05:31

Major report by government agencies goes against senior members of Trump administration and finds evidence of global warming stronger than ever

A comprehensive review by 13 US federal agencies concludes that evidence of global warming is stronger than ever and that more than 90% of it has been caused by humans.

The conclusion contradicts a favorite talking point of senior members of the Trump administration.

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A last refuge for Europe's blighted killer whales

BBC - Sat, 2017-11-04 02:42
The Norwegian island of Kvaløya is now one of the few places in Europe to see a pod of killer whales.
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