Sweet Briar Marshes has been created in heart of city with fewer public footpaths than any other in England and Wales
Hidden between a hectic ring road, a chemicals factory and housing estates are 36 hectares (90 acres) of “a green beating heart, pumping nature” into the surrounding city.
Traffic noise and sirens are muffled by ancient oaks, while late-season dragonflies sweep over hawthorns laden with blood-red haws as a kestrel hovers, head down, searching for field voles hiding in the tufty grasses.
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09/27/2023 - 10:00
Exclusive: PM says the ‘right decisions’ are needed to ensure Australia emerges a winner in the global race to renewable energy
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Anthony Albanese has signalled he will do more to accelerate the transition to low emissions after the voice referendum has concluded, declaring the “right decisions” are needed to ensure Australia emerges a winner in the global race to renewable energy.
Albanese’s signpost during an interview with Guardian Australia’s politics podcast comes as the government is working up a policy response to challenges and opportunities created by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act ahead of the prime minister’s visit to Washington in late October.
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09/27/2023 - 10:00
Labor heavyweight also warns of the danger of environment movement fading as he throws support behind new alliance
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The former New South Wales premier Bob Carr has backed an alliance of conservation groups calling for tougher environmental protections and an overhaul of the state’s land-clearing laws.
A report from the new alliance – called the Stand Up for Nature alliance – calls for forests and native vegetation to be protected by “ending habitat destruction, run away land clearing and industrial native forest logging”.
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09/27/2023 - 06:02
Claimants say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heating
An 11-year-old girl from Portugal sat inside the grand chamber of the European court of human rights on Wednesday to face 86 lawyers from 32 nations in the world’s largest climate legal action.
Mariana Agostinho was alongside her brother and sister, and her cousins, two rows back from 17 human rights judges.
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09/27/2023 - 05:29
Campaigners and parliamentarians gear up to fight ‘reckless proposals’ on pollution from new developments
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Political parties and wildlife groups are gearing up to fight the UK government’s renewed plans to scrap pollution rules for housebuilders.
The environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has announced that a new bill is in the works, with Rishi Sunak hoping to push it through parliament in the limited time he has left before the general election.
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09/27/2023 - 02:26
Campaigners including Greta Thunberg had called for halt to Rosebank project involving Oslo-listed Equinor
Britain has given the go-ahead to develop the UK’s biggest untapped oilfield off Shetland, sparking outrage from environmental campaigners.
The UK oil and gas regulator’s decision to grant the Oslo-listed Equinor and the British firm Ithaca Energy permission to develop the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea was condemned by the Green party MP Caroline Lucas as “the greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime”.
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09/27/2023 - 01:46
NSW EPA to test two brush turkeys and several pigeons found in Mosman to identify likely cause of death
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Dead brush turkeys believed to have been poisoned have been found on Sydney’s lower north shore at an oval where firefighters discovered suspected pellet bait.
Two brush turkeys – a protected native bird species – and at least seven pigeons died after they were found near Allan Border Oval in Mosman and taken to a nearby vet on Monday.
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09/26/2023 - 20:14
There’s a bowerbird building a bower in my backyard, so this year I’m on Team Bowerbird
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It has been a warm start to spring, and my neighbourhood has been absolutely overrun by a mob of rowdy, horny, young satin bowerbirds. I’m assuming they’re mostly juvenile males from the behaviour (hanging out in parks, acting moody, vaping …) but I’m no ornithologist, so take my observations with a grain of salt.
One of these rambunctious bowerbird youths has been constructing his bower a metre from where my kids jump on the trampoline.
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09/26/2023 - 20:00
Join Wave Makers host Tamara Kahn as she sits down with a friend who has always shared her spirit of adventure and now a passion for Blue tech as well. Jonathan Ballesteros, the entrepreneurial mind behind Geyser Systems, shares his story of launching the groundbreaking company that’s redefining the way we approach water conservation. Listen as they explore Jonathan’s personal journey, from his passion for technology and entrepreneurship to his mission-driven commitment to creating a more sustainable future for our water resources. Learn how Geyser Systems is revolutionizing a water usage overdue for an overhaul: the shower.
09/26/2023 - 13:23
Ex-president attacks clean energy by making multiple false statements at South Carolina rally
Donald Trump has launched a lengthy and largely baseless attack on wind turbines for causing large numbers of whales to die, claiming that “windmills” are making the cetaceans “crazy” and “a little batty”.
Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, used a rally in South Carolina to assert that while there was only a small chance of killing a whale by hitting it with a boat, “their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. No one does anything about that.”
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