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Cutting edge distributed energy test lab in works for New South Wales coal centre
SwitchDin unveils plans to build the Southern Hemisphere’s largest dedicated test lab for distributed energy resources (DER) in Newcastle.
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New York biomass facility’s RGGI non-compliance extends into 2022
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California invalidates compliance offsets from Wisconsin project for second time
Ratings firm downgrades Asian renewables project, puts REDD scheme on watch
US green group report takes aim at agriculture offset markets, citing Big Ag ‘power grab’
Thinking of having a baby as the planet collapses? First, ask yourself 5 big ethical questions
Whales use ‘phonic lips’ in nose to make loudest sounds of any animal, say scientists
Researchers solve puzzle of how animal generates enough air flow 1,000 metres under water, where pressure is 100 times that at surface
The question of how the whale got its voice has been solved by scientists, who have discovered how the creatures use “phonic lips” in their nose to produce the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom.
The research also reveals that toothed whales, a group that includes killer whales, sperm whales, dolphins and porpoises, use three vocal registers equivalent to vocal fry (a low creaky voice), a normal speaking voice and falsetto.
Continue reading...EU tries to help energy intensive companies via joint gas purchasing
Plans for gas drilling in Surrey Hills to face judicial review
Local campaigners succeed in bringing legal challenge after government overruled council’s rejection of project
Plans to drill for gas in the Surrey Hills will be put under judicial review and could be stopped, after local campaigners took the government to the high court.
Ministers previously gave the green light to three years of exploratory drilling at a site near Dunsfold on the edge of the Surrey Hills area of outstanding natural beauty.
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: Xpansiv could add ratings to standardised carbon credit products
Dusky tetraka: Joy as bird feared extinct spotted in Madagascar
EU extends investigation into Germany’s lignite phase out aid
Seed sales jump as fruit and veg shortage continues
Footage captures moment fishers see shark feeding frenzy – video
A group of fishers searching for tuna were astonished when they encountered a shiver of sharks feeding about 15 miles off the coast of Louisiana last month. Dillon May, who filmed the animals on his camera, recounted that he and his girlfriend Kaitlyn Dix were aboard a friend's fishing boat when they noticed water movement. Initially, they assumed it was a tuna boil, caused by a school of tuna nibbling on food and agitating below the water's surface. However, they were amazed to discover that the disturbance was in fact a frenzy of hungry sharks thrashing in the water
Continue reading...‘Never seen anything like it’: fisherman’s video captures shark feeding frenzy
Louisiana fisherman stumbles across scene of sharks gorging themselves on large pod of fish
Thinking he had spotted a “tuna boil”, and thereby found his own prey, a Louisiana fisherman soon realised he had instead stumbled across a huge group of sharks engaged in a feeding frenzy.
“Never seen anything like it,” Dillon May told Storyful, to whom he provided video of the remarkable scene.
Continue reading...Jurors trying Insulate Britain protesters fail to reach verdict
Three defendants who glued themselves to City of London road in October 2021 face possible retrial
Three climate protesters who stopped traffic to bring rush hour chaos to the City of London face a possible retrial.
Dorset councillor Giovanna Lewis, 65, horticultural worker Amy Pritchard, 37, and screenwriter Paul Sheeky, 46, blocked traffic between Bishopsgate and Wormwood Street.
Continue reading...‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island
The carnivorous Phyllurus fimbriatus is only found in the wettest, rockiest pockets of Scawfell Island
A new species of gecko that “looks like a little dragon”, with a beaky face and spiny leaf-shaped tail, has been discovered on an uninhabited Queensland island.
The new lizard was found on Scawfell Island, a rugged island about 50km offshore from the north Queensland city of Mackay.
Continue reading...Here’s the real reason the EPA doesn’t want to test for toxins in East Palestine | Stephen Lester
The agency is familiar with dioxins, having researched its adverse effects, and if they test the soil in East Palestine for it, they will find it
The decision to release and burn five tanker cars of vinyl chloride and other chemicals at the site of a 38-car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, just over three weeks ago unleashed a gigantic cloud full of particulates that enveloped surrounding neighborhoods and farms in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
It is well documented that burning chlorinated chemicals like vinyl chloride will generate dioxins. “Dioxin” is the name given to a group of persistent, very toxic chemicals that share similar chemical structures. The most toxic form of dioxin is 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin or TCDD. TCDD is more commonly recognized as the toxic contaminant found in Agent Orange and at Love Canal, New York and Times Beach, Missouri, both sites of two of the most tragic environmental catastrophes in US history.
Stephen Lester is a toxicologist and the science director of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, a project of the People’s Action Institute
Continue reading...David Pocock wants urgent action on carbon credits before vote on key climate policy
Crossbench senator’s support is crucial if government is to introduce planned revamp of safeguard mechanism
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The independent senator David Pocock has urged the Albanese government to quickly implement all recommendations from a review of Australia’s carbon credit system, given that it wants to introduce a climate policy that relies heavily on offsets.
Pocock’s is a key vote if the government is to introduce a planned revamp of the safeguard mechanism, a scheme that is meant to reduce carbon pollution from 215 big polluting industrial and resources sites.
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