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Unravelling the mystery of how life in Antarctica survived past ice ages involved sampling some of the oldest museum records. When combined with a dating database, a familiar story is revealed. Mark Stevens, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Adelaide Andrew Mackintosh, Professor & Head, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment; expert on glaciers and ice sheets, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Another large storm is forecast to hit the state's central and southern coast this week.

The full battery opportunity won't be unlocked, however, unless Australia puts in the policy and industry legwork first.

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The financial trail of underlying projects is of equal interest to would-be voluntary carbon credit buyers as other transparency elements such as project location and methodology, a panel heard Tuesday.

Saudi developer secures agreements to build three solar plus storage projects in one of the world’s largest power purchase deals.

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Officials at a heated town meeting in Menindee, outback New South Wales, are challenged to drink a mug of town water in front of the crowd after assuring the community that it meets Australian drinking water standards. The request is issued by Jan Fennell, a resident who says the town is tired of being given instructions by authorities without being granted meaningful involvement or reassurances

• Menindee residents ask officials to drink town’s water as reassurance after massive fish kill
• ‘All this here will kill this river’: traditional owners grieve for the Darling-Baaka after mass fish death

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UN report predicts water demand will increase by 80% as crisis threatens to get out of control

The number of people lacking access to safe drinking water in cities around the world will double by 2050, research has found, amid warnings of an imminent water crisis that is likely to “spiral out of control”.

Nearly 1 billion people in cities around the world face water scarcity today and the number is likely to reach between 1.7 billion and 2.4 billion within the next three decades, according to the UN World Water Development Report, published on Tuesday ahead of a vital UN summit. Urban water demand is predicted to increase by 80% by 2050.

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Trains in the north and south of the Netherlands are affected, with some services stopping for a week.

The Australia Institute lists the nation's 116 new fossil fuel projects and the massive carbon bomb that they will set off if they all proceed as planned.

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Czech majority state-owned utility CEZ reported a 5% year-on-year drop in its EU ETS-covered thermal power output for 2022, it said on Tuesday, though its demand for carbon allowances saw less of an impact as coal output held relatively steady.

We were not given a chance to scrutinise the nuclear submarine deal, and critical questions remain unanswered

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On the morning of 16 September 2021, the federal ALP caucus was presented with the shadow cabinet’s fait accompli of support for the Morrison government’s Aukus submarine deal.

Caucus members were told that on the previous afternoon, the leader, Anthony Albanese and several shadow ministers had received a two-hour briefing on the proposal from the government. No documents were provided at the briefing. On the basis of that, and the shadow ministry’s endorsement, Labor MPs were expected to leap into bipartisan support for the Aukus deal.

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Avoidance-based carbon offsets will be sold for “bargain basement prices” to companies practicing "corporate charity" by the end of the decade, while demand for carbon removals will exceed the current projected supply, an analyst said Tuesday.

IPCC says solar and wind will deliver easily the biggest and lowest cost emission cuts over the next 10 years.

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Only 19 cases of cetacean bycatch reported under Defra scheme, but experts say figure much higher

Only a handful of instances of accidental bycatch of whales, dolphins and porpoises have been recorded under the UK government’s self-reporting initiative, despite the likelihood that hundreds are being caught by fishing vessels.

Fishers have been encouraged to voluntarily record the bycatch of marine mammals in an attempt to reduce the accidental catch, which would benefit the fishing industry and the health of the seas.

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Red tingle forests in south-western Australia have the lowest fire risk when they’ve not been subjected to prescribed burning. New research explains why Philip Zylstra, Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Research Associate at University of New South Wales, Curtin University Grant Wardell-Johnson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Molecular and Life Sciences and ARC Centre for Mine Site Restoration., Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

To give native species their best chance of survival, we have to embrace ecosystem-based conservation – rather than trying to rescue individual species in isolation. William Geary, PhD Student, Deakin University Adrian Wayne, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Tim Doherty, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Academics have fired another broadside at the voluntary carbon market (VCM) with a new paper claiming improved forest management (IFM) projects are belching out hot air.

UK power producer Drax has paused its BECCS plans in the UK until it gets more clarity over how the government will support the technology, it said on Tuesday.

The UAE has a political commitment to steer this year's UN COP28 climate negotiations that is not undermined by being an oil producing country, according to Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, who led the COP27 event last year.

EU emissions goals could be put in jeopardy by a compromise between France and Germany as the two major powers seek to promote their own interests in separate elements of the bloc's climate policy, observers warned on Tuesday.