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Latest battery storage tender swamped by offers and six times over subscribed
First CIS auction for battery storage in Western Australia more than six times over-subscribed.
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Striking images reveal depths of Titanic's slow decay
‘It’s time to give up on normal’: what winter’s weird weather means for the warm months ahead
Paraguay translating carbon markets law into regulation
MP calls on NSW government to remove 51 shark nets after hundreds of dolphins and turtles killed last summer
Advocates against nets say sharks can easily swim underneath and drone surveillance is more effective
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Experts, marine conservation groups and an MP are all urging the New South Wales government to ban anti-shark nets, which kill large numbers of turtles and dolphins, after 51 nets were installed along the state’s coastline.
Last summer more than 90% of marine animals caught in shark nets were not sharks, while more than half of the 208 non-target species caught – such as turtles, dolphins and smaller sharks – were killed, data showed.
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Continue reading...Why bother going on holiday when I can watch other people’s on TikTok? | Emma Beddington
I’ve discovered the perfect way to avoid the stress of travel, the mosquito bites and the overtourism. Plus, I can stay at home and tend my tomatoes while knowing I’m saving the planet
I haven’t been on holiday this summer, but don’t start tuning the tiny violins. I derive an unusual satisfaction from working when others aren’t (burning martyr is my preferred summer fragrance) and I don’t like change, or strange pillows. Plus, what would Susan, the pigeon who lives on our roof, and my bounteous crop of five unripe tomatoes do without me?
A summer holiday just doesn’t appeal. Is that weird? It feels as if the climate crisis is killing the notion of summer as something to look forward to and holiday hotspots (literally) are losing their lustre, with Greek islands reaching fatal temperatures and Sicily stricken with catastrophic drought.
Continue reading...How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects
Maria Sibylla Merian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations, which shaped how we look at the natural world, will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum
More than three centuries after she made a perilous transatlantic voyage to study butterflies, a rare copy of the hand-coloured masterwork by the great naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian is returning to Amsterdam.
The Rijksmuseum, which holds more than half-a-million books on art and history, last week announced it had acquired a rare first-edition copy of Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium), described as a high point of 18th-century book production when the Dutch Republic was “the bookshop of the world”.
Continue reading...South Australia runs on more than 100 pct net renewables in last week of winter
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Tasmanians prepare to evacuate amid major flood warning as Victorians warned of destructive winds
The south-east of the country is taking a battering and there is more to come as a ‘very strong cold front’ moves through on Sunday
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Tasmanian emergency services were urging residents and businesses along the Derwent River to prepare to evacuate on Sunday, while Victorians have been warned of destructive winds as wild weather batters the south-east of the country.
The Tasmanian state emergency service urged communities in Meadowbank, Glenora, Bushy Park, Gretna and Macquarie Plains to prepare for flooding, with authorities suggesting they could become isolated for several days. An evacuation centre has opened in New Norfolk.
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Continue reading...International development bank opens call for proposals to design Argentina cap-and-trade system
Aerospace giant to acquire British-based climate tech startup targeting aviation emissions
BRICS countries agree to partner on carbon market development
Sheep movement restricted in Norfolk and Suffolk amid bluetongue disease
Several cases have been confirmed and cattle are being kept in restricted zones
The movement of sheep and cattle has been restricted in Norfolk and Suffolk after several confirmed cases of bluetongue disease.
A restricted zone has been put in place to “mitigate the risk of further cases of disease occurring”, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.
Continue reading...Aon, Future Climate partner to protect Brazil REDD investments with new insurance solutions
Many protected landscapes owned by English water firms in disrepair, data shows
Exclusive: Figures reveal just 16% of company-controlled sites of special scientific interest are in good condition
Water companies are allowing important natural landscapes they own to fall into disrepair, data shows, with only 16% of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) under their control in good condition.
The companies have been accused of “polluting for profit” by not investing to improve the status of their SSSIs.
Continue reading...Scientist offers recommendations to strengthen Washington state’s offset protocol
NASA study finds Canadian wildfires risk carbon uptake potential of nation’s forests
A day in the life of a Queensland prawn trawler – in pictures
Photographer Paul Hilton shadowed Captain Robert Bergholz on his boat Restless to see how a local prawn trawler’s day unfolds
Continue reading...What’s the fight over McPhillamys goldmine about and why has Tanya Plibersek hit out at ‘misinformation’?
Environment minister’s cultural site declaration draws accusations of torpedoing a $1bn NSW project but she insists it was vital to protect Aboriginal heritage
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A goldmine in the central-west of New South Wales attracted plenty of heated headlines this week.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, expressed disappointment over a decision by the federal environment and water minister, Tanya Plibersek, that has put the future of the proposed project in doubt.
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