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Tierra parda y estéril: la sequía histórica de Bolivia – en imágenes

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 19:33

Durante la peor sequía de Bolivia en 25 años, el fotógrafo Marcelo Pérez visitó los reservorios que abastecen de agua potable a las ciudades más grandes, y encontró un paisaje inhóspito y árido

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Brown and barren land: Bolivia's historic drought – in pictures

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 19:33

During Bolivia’s worst drought in 25 years, photographer Marcelo Perez visited the reservoirs that supply drinking water to its biggest cities, to find a stark and arid landscape

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Pigeon related to dodo found on Australian mainland for first time

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 18:25

The Nicobar pigeon, which is native to islands in Indian and Pacific oceans, was found by Indigenous rangers near Broome

A rainbow-coloured pigeon native to islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans has been found on the Australian mainland for the first time, by Indigenous rangers working near Broome.

The Nicobar pigeon, Caloenas nicobarica, the closest living relative to the dodo, is named for India’s Nicobar Islands, more than 4,000km north of Broome.

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Stephen Choi - Living Future Institute of Australia

Stephen Choi - Living Future Institute of Australia

Stephen Choi is a UK-qualified Project Architect and Australian-qualified Project Manager. He has led sustainable design teams at small and large practices before founding a not-for-profit environmental building consultancy and becoming the Living Future Institute of Australia's Executive Director. Stephen’s work has included the development of global environmental assessment methods, designing and managing building retrofits and embedding sustainable development into educational curriculum. Several of his projects – both private and public sector – have been recognised in the industry for progressing “green building”

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Ears strained for a mad Highland grouse

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 14:30

Rothiemurchus, Strathspey Rustlings and flittings amid the calls hint at the rich biodiversity of the moor and pine forest

To me, at least, the Highlands dishes up its treats in small portions. On the first morning I stepped out of the lodge and heard the clucking undulations of a springtime black grouse somewhere to the south-east. I followed the noise but didn’t see him.

Instead the sparse pine forest offered up a bright pair of crossbills. Their “fools’ colours” – him in red, her in green – were crisp in the early light.

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Renew Fest 2017 to be held this weekend

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 14:16
If you are near Byron Shire and you want to know what’s going on with renewable energy in the region, then Renew Fest is the place for you!
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Applications open for Threatened Species Recovery Fund

Department of the Environment - Fri, 2017-05-05 13:17
Community organisations across Australia are invited to apply for funding under the Government’s Threatened Species Recovery Fund to help fight extinction.
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Trump appoints renewables critic to head renewables office

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 13:05
In another we-wish-it-were-baffling appointment, Donald Trump has put renewables critic Daniel Simmons in charge of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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CEFC backs two new waste-to-fuel plants with $30m loan

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 12:47
CEFC taps Australia's $2-3.3bn waste to fuel market, with $30m loan to ResourceCo to build two new Processed Engineered Fuel plants.
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Why grid based battery storage is already a no-brainer in Australia

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 12:37
BNEF says grid-based battery storage already very much in the many in Australia. It is a stunning cost fall that has caused AGL to reassess the future and join the CSIRO and the network owners in talking about 100 per cent renewable energy scenarios by 2030.
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Graph of the Day: South Australia’s Anzac renewables bonanza

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 12:28
South Australia enjoyed a bumper harvest from its wind and solar plants last week. Such days will become more common as more projects are built.
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Victoria’s big renewable energy plans face major network hurdle

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 12:22
AEMO report says there are major network constraints for its 40 per cent renewable energy plan, which explains government's big push into battery storage.
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WA to close Muja coal units, in first signs of major shift to renewables

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 12:19
As WA's new Labor government announces closure of Muja AB coal-fired power station the state will have no choice but to turn to wind and solar.
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4 degrees of separation: Santos proves gas not climate solution

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 12:17
If gas is the transition fuel to a low carbon economy, then why on earth does Santos base its business plan on a catastrophic 4°C pathway?
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The great silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it | Clive Hamilton

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 11:32

We continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest tragedy, Clive Hamilton writes, is the absence of a sense of tragedy

After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink in.

Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual.

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Tesla says Powerwall 2 battery storage deliveries have begun

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 11:16
Tesla says installations of its Powerwall 2 home battery systems have begun in Australia, and will ramp up this month.
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Ergon adds new retail tariff to home solar and storage trial

RenewEconomy - Fri, 2017-05-05 11:07
Qld solar and storage trial goes into third phase, with new retail product – Tariff 14 – designed to help guide customer energy consumption.
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Oil company Santos admits business plan is based on 4C temperature rise

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 10:06

Chairman Peter Coates says company’s plan is ‘consistent with good value’, but experts call it ‘a breathtaking failure to come to grips with a world in transition’

The oil and gas company Santos has admitted its business plans are based on a climate change scenario of a 4C rise n global temperatures, at odds with internationally agreed efforts.

Its chairman, Peter Coates, made the comments at an AGM in Adelaide on Thursday, telling shareholders it was “sensible” and “consistent with good value”.

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Negative emissions tech: can more trees, carbon capture or biochar solve our CO2 problem?

The Guardian - Fri, 2017-05-05 09:40

As CO2 levels rise, controversial techniques including carbon capture and storage, enhanced weathering and reforestation may be solutions

In the 2015 Paris climate agreement, 195 nations committed to limit global warming to two degrees above pre-industrial levels. But some, like Eelco Rohling, professor of ocean and climate change at the Australian National University’s research school of earth sciences, now argue that this target cannot be achieved unless ways to remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are found, and emissions are slashed.

This is where negative emissions technologies come in. The term covers everything from reforestation projects to seeding the stratosphere with sulphates or fertilising the ocean with iron fillings.

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UK clean air strategy: Government to publish draft proposals

BBC - Fri, 2017-05-05 09:07
After a protracted legal battle, ministers are forced to reveal anti-pollution proposals.
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