Marine researcher ‘devastated’ by widespread event that is affecting coral species usually resistant to bleaching
Concern that the Great Barrier Reef may be suffering the most severe mass coral bleaching event on record has escalated after a conservation group released footage showing damage up to 18 metres below the surface.
Dr Selina Ward, a marine biologist and former academic director of the University of Queensland’s Heron Island Research Station, said it was the worst bleaching she had seen in 30 years working on the reef, and that some coral was starting to die.
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04/10/2024 - 18:01
VisitAHeatPump service allows householders to look and ask questions about low-carbon system
UK householders considering swapping their gas boiler for an electric heat pump could see how they work by visiting an early adopter in their area.
A new service aims to help would-be heat pump owners to book a visit with households that already have one installed, through a website launched by the innovation charity Nesta.
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04/10/2024 - 16:38
Worst-ever fire season in 2023 saw 15m hectare burned, eight firefighters killed and 230,000 people evacuated
Canada risks another “catastrophic” wildfire season, the federal government has warned, forecasting higher-than-normal spring and summer temperatures across much of the country, boosted by El Niño weather conditions.
Last year, Canada endured its worst-ever fire season, with more than 6,600 blazes burning 15m hectares (37m acres), an area roughly seven times the annual average. Eight firefighters died and 230,000 people were evacuated from their homes.
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04/10/2024 - 15:15
Ant species living in Boulder's foothills have shifted their habitat over the last six decades, potentially affecting local ecosystems, suggests a new study.
04/10/2024 - 13:00
The state’s uniquely lax regulation permits chicken waste to collect outdoors – but there’s no easy way to complain about it
Jefferson Currie II is at war with flies.
Spotted flypaper dangles from the ceiling of his home in North Carolina’s Scotland county. He shows off a two-quart jar trap, marketed as an outdoor pest control solution for farms, full of flies he’s caught indoors. On Zoom meetings for his job as the Lumber Riverkeeper with the non-profit Winyah Rivers Alliance, he mutes himself and goes offscreen to avoid distracting others with the heavy thunk of his pump-action, salt-shooting plastic fly gun.
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04/10/2024 - 10:26
A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics.
04/10/2024 - 10:00
In letter vice-chancellor requested committee not publish joint submission by two academics and redact parts of second submission ‘unfairly’ critical of CDU
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Charles Darwin University asked a federal inquiry not to publish submissions by three of its staff after the academics criticised the university’s support for a gas and industrial development on Darwin Harbour.
It comes as the Northern Territory government is due to give evidence in Darwin on Thursday to the Middle Arm inquiry, which is examining the proposed precinct and a $1.5bn investment promised by the Albanese government.
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04/10/2024 - 10:00
Prime minister says government needs to be ‘more strategic and more sophisticated’ to compete globally
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Anthony Albanese is signalling a dramatic shift to unapologetically and directly supporting Australian industry and innovation, saying the country needs “sharper elbows when it comes to marking out our national interest” and competing with the rest of the world.
In a speech to be delivered to the Queensland Press Club on Thursday, the prime minister will effectively launch his bid for re-election with a plan for a green interventionist industry policy, promising direct government support to speed up the energy transition, provide certainty for business and stem the flow of money and ideas to countries offering investment incentives.
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04/10/2024 - 08:00
Simon Stiell calls for reform at development banks to enable governments to provide more climate finance to developing world
The World Bank must take a “quantum leap” to provide new finance to tackle the climate crisis or face “climate-driven economic catastrophe” that would bring all the world’s economies to a halt, the UN climate chief has said.
Simon Stiell warned that there were just two years left to draw up an international plan for the climate that would cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.
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04/10/2024 - 07:29
Gas Leaks Project launches campaign targeting the American Gas Association, which claims nearly all utilities in the US as members
A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington DC on Tuesday to decry utilities’ practice of spending customers’ money to advance a pro-fossil fuel agenda.
“Americans are already paying the price of climate change,” said Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts at a gathering at the US Capitol. “They shouldn’t have to pay the salaries of those who are fueling it.”
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