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Australia’s Northern Territory EPA proposes new emissions guidelines, flags offset considerations
Dolphins can recognise each other by taste of their urine, study finds
Aquatic mammals can recognise friends and family members without seeing or hearing them
Dolphins are able to recognise one another by the taste of their urine, a study has found.
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered that the mammals can recognise friends and family members without seeing or hearing them.
Continue reading...Australian Market Roundup: Regulator issues 600K new ACCUs as Woodside gets nod for BHP merger
Why bike lanes don't make traffic worse – video
Cities in the UK and around the world are installing new bike lanes to help reduce emissions, but some claim they are making traffic worse. The argument goes that bike lanes means less space for cars and therefore more congestion. While this might sound plausible, it appears to hark back to outdated traffic management theory. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how traffic really works, and the actual impact of installing new bike lanes
Continue reading...G7 can lead the way to reduce global heavy industry emissions, IEA says
UK has approved several fossil fuel projects since Cop26, analysis finds
About 50 schemes are thought to be in pipeline between now and 2025 despite climate pledges
Several major UK fossil fuel projects have been approved since Cop26 concluded, an analysis has found, while about 50 schemes are thought to be in the pipeline between now and 2025.
Three separate schemes have received some form of approval from government bodies during the six-month period since Boris Johnson’s administration hosted the UN climate summit in Glasgow. Campaigners say his government is reaching a crunch point, with three major onshore schemes currently being appealed and the levelling up minister, Michael Gove, set to rule on a number of such applications over the next six weeks.
Continue reading...The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same | George Monbiot
Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar?
For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.
While financial collapse would have been devastating to human welfare, food system collapse doesn’t bear thinking about. Yet the evidence that something is going badly wrong has been escalating rapidly. The current surge in food prices looks like the latest sign of systemic instability.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Capturing the Climate crisis: the Evidence Project – in pictures
The Evidence Project is a photography-led campaign created by Britta Jaschinski, Keith Wilson and Arturo de Frías focusing on the impact of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the causes of viral pandemics. These images by many of the world’s leading photographers are their evidential proof to provoke governments, businesses, opinion leaders and consumers to initiate the changes required for a safe and sustainable future for all life on Earth. Central to this campaign is the production of a new crowdfunded book, which the creators expect to publish later this year
Continue reading...Here's how we track down and very carefully photograph Australia's elusive snakes
Somerset ‘super nature reserve’ will benefit UK’s rarest wildlife
Environmental organisations partner to create 15,000-acre protected wetland from Glastonbury to Bridgwater Bay
At this time of year the booming call of the bitterns resonates across the Avalon Marshes in Somerset while hawks skim over the reed beds and great white egrets nest in the shallows. The pools and ditches are alive with rare reptiles, mammals, insects and spiders.
Plans to improve the habitat for flora and fauna that live in one of the UK’s most extraordinary landscapes by creating a “super nature reserve” stretching from these marshes around Glastonbury to the edge of Bridgwater Bay were announced on Thursday.
Continue reading...Maoneng gets grid approval for Victoria’s newest “biggest battery”
Plan for 240MW/480MWh stand-alone big battery project on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula gains grid connection assessment approval.
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EU hits fast forward on renewables, including “massive deployment” of solar
Spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, European Commission unveils massive scaling-up and speeding-up of renewable energy, with solar as the "kingpin."
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Offshore wind giant to use turbine foundations to “rewild” North Sea
Danish renewables giant partners with ARK Nature to explore “rewilding” opportunities in the North Sea to restore ocean biodiversity.
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“Fossil fuels are a dead end:” UN chief says coal, oil and gas subsidies a “scandal”
UN chief says fossil fuel subsidies are a scandal as latest WMO report paints grim picture on climate change.
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The Driven Podcast: It’s time to catch up, Elon
The Australian EV start-up founded by a former driver that is rolling out battery swap technology to turn big trucks electric.
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Greens to push for 2030 deadline to phase out coal power
Greens leader Adam Bandt says party will pressure the next government to set a hard deadline for an Australian phase out of coal.
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CP Daily: Wednesday May 18, 2022
Gas industry and Coalition reach for a get-out-of-catastrophe-free card in climate crisis Monopoly | Temperature Check
Carbon capture and storage isn’t working close to a scale that would significantly lower emissions – despite billions in taxpayers’ cash thrown at it
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Scott Morrison’s loving embrace and financial backing of the gas industry has been a defining feature of his prime ministership.
Hit with a historical pandemic, Morrison chose gas – not renewables – to fire an economic recovery.
Continue reading...A new climate politics: The 47th parliament must be a contest of ideas for a hotter, low-carbon Australia
Climate change has figured little in the 2022 federal election campaign. But the need for sensible, long-term measures is now dire.
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