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Science in Australia's environmental policy
Review of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000
Giant great white shark circles diving cage near Guadeloupe – video
My generation does give a damn about climate change, says 14-year-old activist
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez has been campaigning since he was six. He explains why young people are not afraid to take on the fossil fuel industry
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez is 14, but has a confidence beyond his years. He carries on his back an organisation that his mother Tamara founded almost 10 years before his birth, created to inspire young people to defend the environment.
Roske-Martinez is its spokesperson, its youth director, and a self-defined eco hip hop artist, activist and change-agent. He raps. He lectures children younger and older than him at schools around the United States. He rallies before state politicians. And he has addressed world leaders in the United Nations.
Continue reading...Robin wins vote for UK's national bird
More than 224,000 people cast their ballot in the National Bird Vote with robin taking 34%, followed by barn owl and blackbird, at 12% and 11%
It’s territorial, chippy and punches above its weight – and that’s why Britons have voted for the robin to be the country’s national bird, according to the organiser of a nationwide poll.
More than 224,000 people cast their ballot in the National Bird Vote, organised by “urban birder” David Lindo, which finished on the day of the general election.
Continue reading...Sea Shepherd agrees $2.55m payment to Japanese whalers for injunction breach
Radical environmental group does not accept it is in contempt, but agrees payout after getting involved in confrontations with whalers in 2013
A radical environmental group has agreed to pay $2.55m (£1.6m) to Japanese whalers for breaching a US court injunction to stay clear of their vessels in the Antarctic Ocean.
The United States-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and former senior officials of the group last week agreed to pay the sum to resolve civil contempt charges against them in the US ninth circuit court of appeals.
Continue reading...Yellow-breasted buntings 'being eaten to extinction by China'
Birds once abundant in Europe and Asia could share the same fate as passenger pigeon as they are killed in millions for food
A bird that was once one of the most abundant in Europe and Asia is being hunted to near extinction because of Chinese eating habits, according to a study published on Tuesday.
The population of the yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola) has plunged by 90% since 1980, all but disappearing from eastern Europe, Japan and large parts of Russia, said the study, published in the Conservation Biology journal.
Continue reading...Dynamic EcoLibrium registrations open. Can SA go 100% renewable?
Former BP executive not guilty of reporting false information after 2010 spill
David Rainey was accused of lying about amount of oil being expelled into Gulf of Mexico after Deepwater Horizon explosion to match government reports
A federal jury found a former BP executive not guilty Friday of making false statements to investigators in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Related: Deepwater Horizon: jury selection begins for BP exec charged in oil spill
Continue reading...Can Sea Shepherd survive its own success?
With a new $12m ship on the way and the Japanese whaling fleet on the retreat, the conservation organization is having a banner year – provided the Whale Wars stars can navigate a rising tide of multimillion-dollar lawsuits
In 2010, the world watched a $3m eco-action boat called the Ady Gil sink off Antarctica after being run through by a Japanese whaling ship. In many ways, it was a moment that defined the last five years for Sea Shepherd, the vigilante conservation group to which the trimaran belonged. With the sinking came renewed public support for their mission to do anything necessary to stop whaling.
The collision is likely to make headlines again this summer, as three separate multimillion-dollar lawsuits against Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) come to a head.
Continue reading...Why an opinion article on Delhi's air pollution upset many Indians | Janaki Lenin
A New York Times story of an eight-year-old’s struggle to draw a breath of air set off a storm of protest. Was it a case of shooting the messenger?
Gardiner Harris, the South Asia correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a critique of Delhi’s abysmal air quality before fleeing to the US. Since then his story has been re-published by major news websites and shared widely online.
Within nine months of the family moving to Delhi, Harris’ eight-year-old son Bram suffered respiratory distress, lost half his breathing ability, and had to take steroids regularly. Then the Harrises agonised if it was ethical to continue living in the city at the cost of their children’s health, especially when they had a choice. They could move elsewhere, while most of the city’s residents were grounded.
Continue reading...Seven new species of Australian spider discovered including unique tarantula
A team of scientists, rangers and field assistants had great success in their quest to find new and endangered species in the huge Judbarra national park
Seven new species of spider, including a type of tarantula completely new to science, have been discovered in a Northern Territory national park.
The discoveries were made by a team participating in the Bush Blitz nature program which saw 16 scientists, Indigenous rangers and field assistants, searching the 1.3m hectare Judbarra park for new species.
Continue reading...Emissions Reduction Fund: Exposure Draft Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment Rule 2015
Emissions Reduction Fund: Exposure Draft Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment Rule 2015
Barwon-Darling Unregulated River water source Tender Round Opens
Aggregation under the Emissions Reduction Fund - Consultation on guidance materials
SENG National Newsletter - May 2015
Draft decision on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
It's time to wean ourselves off the fairytale version of farming | George Monbiot
Children’s tales bear no resemblance to the cruelty of most modern farms, yet this image enables us to turn a blind eye to animal welfare and is exploited by the industry for profit – as Kerrygold’s recent Guardian advertorial shows
The way that meat, eggs and milk are produced is surrounded by one of our great silences, in which most people collaborate. We don’t want to know, because knowing would force anyone with a capacity for empathy to change their diet.
You break this silence at your peril. After I published an article on chicken farming last week, I had to re-read it to check that I hadn’t actually proposed the slaughter of the firstborn by terrorist devil worshippers – so outraged and vicious were some of the responses. And that was just the consumers.
Continue reading...Release of Exposure Draft - NGER (Measurement) Amendment Determination 2015 (No 2)
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