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California Senator proposes to delay climate disclosure law rollout
UN talks move slowly towards setting up a global fund for sharing benefits derived from genetic resources
Girl discovers dinosaur footprints on beach walk
Mexico one of least exposed LATAM countries to EU CBAM, says expert
CBAM to hit Vietnam’s steel exports, researchers find
Chair of Nuclear for Australia denies that calling CO2 ‘plant food’ means he is a climate denier
Dr Adi Paterson’s statements are apparently at odds with the group’s official position, which says nuclear is needed to tackle the climate crisis
The chair of a leading Australian nuclear advocacy group has called concerns that carbon dioxide emissions are driving a climate crisis an “irrational fear of a trace gas which is plant food” and has rejected links between worsening extreme weather and global heating.
Several statements from Dr Adi Paterson, reviewed by the Guardian, appear at odds with statements from the group he chairs, Nuclear for Australia, which is hosting a petition saying nuclear is needed to tackle an “energy and climate crisis”.
Continue reading...The first rule of Bite Club? Survive an attack by an apex predator
Surviving a shark – or lion, or bear – attack is the key criteria for entry into Bite Club. Together its members navigate their next big challenge: what happens after you survive?
Paul Kenny was camping behind the dunes at Samurai beach, north of Port Stephens on the Australian east coast, when he jumped naked into the water to “just wake up”. It was freezing but he caught a good wave, got some speed up and hit something. At first he thought it was another person but there was no one else swimming. He had body surfed into the head of a 2.5-metre (8ft) bronze whaler shark and his outstretched arm was in its teeth.
And with that, Kenny met the criteria to enter the small, exclusive Bite Club.
Continue reading...Why do whales beach themselves? A vial of parasites in a Tasmanian museum may hold the answer
Pilot whale that beached itself in 1973 was infested with thousands of parasitic nematodes that may have eaten away at its blowhole
A vial of white parasitic worms left for decades in a Tasmanian museum may help solve a timeless mystery: why do whales strand themselves on beaches?
The worms were collected from the blowhole of a pilot whale that beached itself in 1973 and then stored in Launceston’s Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
Continue reading...Voluntary carbon standard seeks feedback on peatland restoration methodology
Climate activists in frame for £1m costs of protest bans run up by UK’s biggest law firm
DLA Piper seeking to recover costs in relation to injunctions it secured for National Highways and HS2, records show
Britain’s biggest law firm has sought more than £1m from climate protesters to cover the cost of court orders banning them from protesting, an investigation has found.
The multibillion-pound City law firm DLA Piper has been trying to recover costs from activists for work done on behalf of National Highways Limited (NHL) and HS2 Ltd – both public bodies – obtaining injunctions banning protests on their sites.
Continue reading...Large German firms reduce value chain emissions 4% in 2023 -report
Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’
Friederike Otto of World Weather Attribution says poor people and outdoor workers are dying around the world
Heat inequality is causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries and communities across the world, a leading analyst of climate impacts has warned, following global temperature records that may not have been seen in 120,000 years.
Sweltering conditions act as a stealthy killer that preys on the most economically fragile, said Friederike Otto, co-founder of World Weather Attribution, in an appeal for the media and authorities to pay more attention to the dangers.
Continue reading...BRIEFING: Orsted drops e-methanol plant for shipping, following Shell and BP retreat from biofuels
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Air and rain samples in Detroit show high levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’
Compound used in refrigeration and air conditioning accumulates at much higher levels that other chemicals
Rain and air samples collected in metro Detroit that researchers checked for toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” showed the highest levels of TFA, an alarming finding because the compound is a potent greenhouse gas and more toxic than previously thought, but not well-studied.
While PFAS are a chemical class known to be ubiquitous in the environment, the new research is part of growing evidence around the globe that points to TFA, commonly used in refrigeration, air conditioning and clean energy technology, accumulating at much higher levels than other well-studied compounds.
Continue reading...Rarely seen deep-sea fish washes up in California – video
An oarfish, which resembles a serpent, was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast and was brought ashore for study. Scientists say it is only the 20th time since 1901 an oarfish is known to have washed up in California
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