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March of the fire ants could reach Sydney’s outskirts by 2035, costing economy up to $1.2bn a year
Exclusive: Study finds pests could damage crops, and households would incur costs for pesticides, veterinary bills and electrical faults
Failure to stop the spread of an outbreak of invasive fire ants in south-east Queensland could cost the Australian economy more than $1bn a year, including damage to high-value crops, infrastructure and homes.
A previously unreleased cost-benefit analysis, commissioned by a steering committee managing the outbreak of red fire ants and obtained by Guardian Australia, says that eradication of the species provides “much higher returns” than suppression measures that simply limit its spread.
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Continue reading...Global wind and solar additions to shatter records, but Australia being left behind
IEA says Solar PV and wind set to lead largest increase ever in new renewable capacity this year, but Australia risks being left behind.
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Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns
Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal insurgents”, a former senior federal police chief has warned.
Alexandre Saraiva, who worked in the Amazon from 2011 to 2021, said he feared the growing footprint of drug-trafficking mafias in the region could spawn a situation similar to the decades-long drug conflict in Rio de Janeiro, where the police’s battle with drug gangs and paramilitaries has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Continue reading...Last images of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira found on recovered phone
Photos and videos on phone found near site of men’s killing show some of their last movements in Brazilian Amazon
Some of the last images of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have been found after Indigenous activists recovered a mobile phone Pereira was carrying when the two men were killed in the Brazilian Amazon last year.
The phone was found last October when activists from Univaja, the Indigenous association where Pereira worked, returned to a stretch of flooded forest along the Itaquaí River where the men’s bodies were taken after they were shot dead on their boat on the morning of 5 June 2022.
Continue reading...My husband was killed for exposing the Amazon’s plunder. But his work lives on | Alessandra Sampaio
Dom’s tragic death presents an opportunity to share what the Amazon meant to him – and to ensure its protection
It’s been a year since my life changed dramatically with a phone call from a journalist friend telling me Dom had gone missing in the Javari valley. I could tell from the worry in his voice that it was unlikely Dom was still alive.
Dom and I both knew his research into criminal acts against the rainforest and its defenders might one day put him at risk. But we never believed it would actually happen. Dom followed strict safety protocols and was very careful and focused on the details of his trips, organising the itineraries and sending me all the information, as well as contacts.
Continue reading...Murdered protecting the Amazon: remembering Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips – video
One year ago, Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist and longtime Guardian contributor, were killed on the frontline of the battle to protect the planet.
They were ambushed on the Amazon’s Itaquaí River while returning from a reporting trip to the remote Javari valley region. The attack prompted international outcry, and cast a spotlight on the growing threat to the Amazon posed by extractive industries, both legal and illegal, such as logging, poaching, mining and cattle ranching.
Today, we launch the Bruno and Dom project, a year-long collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories that involves more than 50 journalists from 16 media organisations in 10 countries around the world.
The goal is to honour and pursue their work, to foreground the importance of the Amazon and its people, and to suggest possible ways to save the Amazon. Here, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, looks at their lives and legacies
Continue reading...Chelsea flower show garden inspires additions to pollinator-friendly plant list
Scientists monitored the Royal Entomological Society’s garden and listed its most bug-friendly plants
A bug-friendly garden at Chelsea flower show has inspired additions to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) pollinator-friendly plant list.
The garden, displayed at the show in London last week, was designed by the horticulturist Tom Massey in collaboration with the Royal Entomological Society (RES). It used various techniques to attract insects, including gravel for the bugs to burrow in rather than paving stones, piled-up logs, and a large range of pollinator-friendly plants, including 106 different species.
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‘None of the Muslim kids can eat’: Illinois to provide halal and kosher meals to schoolkids
A bill passed the state legislature that will require state-funded institutions to provide halal and kosher meals on request
As a student at Sullivan high school in Chicago, Ridwan Rashid frequently skipped lunch and was distracted by hunger, even though his school offered free meals to all students. Rashid is Muslim, as are a growing number of students at Sullivan. But until recently, none of the meals served at the Sullivan cafeteria were halal, which meant they were off limits for most of the school’s Muslim students.
“We go to school and it’s like, OK, some of the kids can eat and none of the Muslim kids can eat,” Rashid said. “It’s not fair.”
Continue reading...As the toxic legacy of opencast mining in Wales shows, operators get the profits, and the public get the costs | George Monbiot
Across the UK, fossil fuel companies’ broken promises have left scarred and polluted landscapes, and no one held accountable
When you’re in a hole, keep digging. This is the strategy of opencast miners across the world: our past debts and future liabilities can one day be discharged if only we’re allowed to dig a little deeper and extract a little more. And public authorities keep falling for it.
The UK’s biggest opencast coalmine, Ffos-y-Fran in south Wales, was granted permission in 2005 on the grounds that it would rehabilitate a hill, on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, which had been made dangerous by the shafts and spoil heaps left by deep mining. It wasn’t called a coalmine, but a “land reclamation scheme”. If the reclaimers happened to stumble across 11m tonnes of coal while improving the land by digging a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) pit, 200 metres deep, who could blame them for taking it?
Continue reading...EU lawmakers back law forcing companies to disclose carbon footprint
Plastic containers still distributed across the US are a potential health disaster
The Environmental Protection Agency is suing the manufacturer, even as the company continues to make and sell its toxic products
Consumer groups are blasting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing plastic containers made with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” to continue being distributed across the economy even though the agency is suing the manufacturer over the dangerous compounds leaching into containers’ contents, such as food or personal care products.
The groups are now intervening in the lawsuit and regulatory proceedings between the EPA and Inhance Technologies, which they estimate produces about 200m PFAS-contaminated plastic containers annually.
Continue reading...Energy company’s NSW cash for gas appliances promotion labelled ‘backward step’ for climate
Green groups criticise Jemena for offering incentive to switch from electricity amid policies in Victoria and NSW aimed at winding back gas use
The gas company Jemena has come under fire from environmental groups for offering customers in New South Wales cash incentives to replace their electric home appliances with gas ones.
Customers can claim money back for buying a range of gas appliances, such as $500 for ducted heating, $400 for hot water, $400 for a gas log fire and $100 for a cooktop, with Jemena putting up $250,000 for the promotion.
Continue reading...South Korea could phase out coal by 2035 with govt support -research
Biodiversity Pulse Weekly: Thursday June 1, 2023
Austrian startup receives first certified credits from European forestry projects
South Korea announces ETS emissions carryover and borrowing schedule
Danish govt launches ocean nature fund, partners with business groups on biodiversity
Pacific leaders reject carbon market development as legitimate climate finance, call on Australia to cut fossil fuel use as part of COP31 bid
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