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Australia gets UN to delete criticism of Murray-Darling basin plan from report
Exclusive: Co-author of study expresses shock at ‘complete ineptitude’ of government’s intervention
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The federal government has successfully put pressure on the United Nations to delete all criticism of Australia’s $13bn effort to restore the ailing Murray-Darling river system from a published study, according to the author of an expert report.
The so-called “Australia chapter” has been removed from the UN report “Does Improved Irrigation Technology Save Water?” published online by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Continue reading...Health warning as toxic hairy caterpillars take over woodlands
An infestation of caterpillars that can trigger asthma attacks, vomiting and skin rashes has appeared in south-east England.
Oak processionary moths, in their larval stage now, have been spotted in areas that include Croydon, Twickenham, Epping Forest, Watford, Ealing and several London suburbs. Other infestations have been spotted in Bracknell Forest, Slough and Guildford.
Continue reading...Rescued bald eagle released into the wild in Canada
Health warnings after toxic caterpillar outbreak in London
Country diary: the mind's associations with moors run dark and deep
Beldoo Moss, Cumbrian Pennines: Brontë, bog-body, Baskerville, Brady – it’s as if we are impelled to fill all that bare, bleak, vacant space
Think of this place and most people see the road: the high crossing road that climbs one side of England’s back and descends the other. A second thought might be of the Roman road that once ran this way, itself over the course of an already ancient bronze age pass.
Continue reading...Hobart Airport lets sleeping echidnas lie
Tragedy follows exposure of US Antarctic base bureaucracy
Heat from north Atlantic hastens melt of Antarctic ice shelves
Sounds reveal details of aquatic environmental health
CP Daily: Friday April 27, 2018
California LCFS Roundup: Q4 2017 data shows first yearly credit deficit as ARB holds meeting on programme updates
Butterflywatch: the orange tip is the true herald of spring
A couple of weeks later than usual, the first species to emerge from the chrysalis, is on the wing
Most of us have a favourite first that signifies the true beginning of spring. For me, it’s the first orange tip. While butterflies that hibernate as adults have been flying for a while, the orange tip is usually the first species to emerge from a chrysalis.
Last spring I complained that I didn’t see my first in Norfolk until 2 April. This year it was 19 April. Other spring butterflies, from the holly blue to the increasingly scarce dingy skipper, are at least a week later than average.
Continue reading...A Big Country 28 April 2018
EU Market: EUAs inch higher for fourth day, securing 3.9% weekly gain
Down to the wire: EU govts cleared to hand out free 2017 CO2 allowances to generators just days before deadline
Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body
Inflated hotel prices, lengthy commutes await attendees at Poland’s COP24 UN climate talks
Sentinel tracks ships' dirty emissions from orbit
Neonics ban, stolen succulents and a stuffed anteater – green news roundup
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