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Melbourne loses 15,000 megalitres of water annually from logging, study finds
Researchers say the Thomson catchment is missing out each year on the amount of water used by 250,000 people
Logging is causing Melbourne’s main catchment area to miss out on 15,000 megalitres of water each year, equivalent to the amount used by 250,000 people, a peer-reviewed study has found.
If logging in Victoria’s Thomson catchment continues as planned, that number would increase to 600,000 Melburnians by 2060, according to the research from the Australian National University.
Continue reading...Sugarcane farmers support group working to undermine Great Barrier Reef science
Exclusive: Farmers United says ‘we know in our hearts and minds’ experts are wrong about run-off damaging the reef
Queensland cane growers’ groups are backing an opaque front organisation working to undermine Great Barrier Reef consensus science, including publishing claims that “we know in our hearts and minds” that the experts are wrong.
The group, Farmers United, published full-page advertisements in News Corp Queensland newspapers this week.
Continue reading...US presidential candidate Sanders sets out energy decarbonisation by 2030, $200 bln GCF contribution
NA Markets: California allowances dip ahead of auction, RGGI units continue fall
Giraffes given greater protection from unregulated trade as numbers fall
Brazil's environment minister heckled at climate conference - video report
Jeering activists interrupted a speech by Ricardo Salles on Wednesday at the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week conference in Salvador, Brazil. Booing protesters virtually drowned out Salles' speech during which one activist held a placard reading: 'Don't you get tired of your own lies?' The minister and the government of the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have come under fire for their policies, which activists say are harming the environment
Continue reading...Brazilian minister booed at climate event as outcry grows over Amazon fires
Political storm over rainforest devastation as Ricardo Salles attends summit
The environment minister of Brazil, where wildfires have been sweeping the Amazon rainforest, was booed at a climate event on Wednesday as celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande joined an international chorus of criticism.
Videos of Ricardo Salles being booed by demonstrators as he took to the stage at Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week in the north-eastern city of Salvador circulated widely in Brazil. An opposition senator is planning to seek his impeachment at Brazil’s supreme court.
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion activists convicted of public order offences
Three protesters found guilty despite intervention of shadow chancellor in their support
Three activists from the environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion have been found guilty of public order offences.
Patrick Thelwell, 19, from York; Peter Scott, 66, from Devon; and Samuel Elmore, 26, from Hyde End in Buckinghamshire were charged with offences including breach of section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, obstructing a highway and obstructing police. However, they were spared jail sentences by a judge, who discharged them on condition that they did not reoffend in the next year.
Continue reading...'Silent extinction': Cites wildlife summit agrees to giraffe protections
Nations back first restrictions on global trade in parts, as well as ban on saiga antelope horn
The world’s tallest animal has gained further protections after the world’s nations voted to end the unregulated international trade in giraffe parts.
There are fewer giraffes alive than elephants and their population has plunged by 40% since 1985 to just 97,500. Scientists have called it a “silent extinction”. However, the bitter debate at the 183-nation summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) exposed anorth-south divide in Africa.
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White-tailed eagles return to southern Britain after 240 years
Conservationists hope release of six eaglets on Isle of Wight will mirror Scotland success
White-tailed eagles are gracing the skies of southern Britain for the first time in 240 years after six eaglets were released on the Isle of Wight.
The huge birds, which are fitted with satellite tags, are expected to disperse along the south coast of England in a scheme backed by the environment secretary, Theresa Villiers, who welcomed the return of the “majestic” species.
Continue reading...Large swathes of the Amazon rainforest are burning – video
There have been more than 72,000 fire outbreaks in Brazil so far this year, up 84% on the same period in 2018, according to the country’s National Institute for Space Research. More than half were in the Amazon. It followed reports that farmers were feeling emboldened to clear land for crop fields and cattle ranches because the new Brazilian government was keen to open up the region to economic activity. The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, instead accused environmental groups of starting fires
Continue reading...China urged to allow pilot ETS allowances in national CO2 market
Global heating: ancient plants set to reproduce in UK after 60m years
Cycad in Isle of Wight produces outdoor male and female cones for first time on record
An exotic plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in Britain for what is believed to be the first time in 60m years. Botanists say the event is a sign of global heating.
Two cycads (Cycas revoluta), a type of primitive tree that dominated the planet 280m years ago, have produced cones on the sheltered undercliffs of Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight.
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