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Blue Origin flight: Wally Funk, 82, to join Jeff Bezos space flight
A baboon: their eyes are smaller than their nostrils
‘Occasionally a big male would wake the echoes of the mountains with his tremendous voice’
It is difficult to take yourself seriously in the presence of a baboon, but I have tried. The university I attended is at the foot of Cape Town’s Table Mountain and every now and then a chacma baboon or several would clamber down to our world.
There they were: on the avenue that bisected the campus, where a highly evolved professor parked his vintage sports car. Where film students arranged themselves on windowsills. There were people trying to take themselves seriously all over the place. It was like every university. Only here, we had baboons.
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Nowhere is safe, say scientists as extreme heat causes chaos in US and Canada
Governments urged to ramp up efforts to tackle climate emergency as temperature records smashed
Climate scientists have said nowhere is safe from the kind of extreme heat events that have hit the western US and Canada in recent days and urged governments to dramatically ramp up their efforts to tackle the escalating climate emergency.
The devastating “heat dome” has caused temperatures to rise to almost 50C in Canada and has been linked to hundreds of deaths, melted power lines, buckled roads and wildfires.
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Climate change: 'Last refuge' for polar bears is vulnerable to warming
France must put forward new climate measures within nine months, says court
Australia Market Roundup: Offset code of conduct goes live, number of revoked carbon projects nears 200
Unprecedented, unbelievable, unsettling: What the heatwave feels like in Seattle | Justin Shaw
Neighborhood streets have become ghost towns. Stepping outside feels like stepping into a sauna. A 10-minute stroll feels like a 20-minute run
The city with the best summers in the nation just hit 108F (42.2C) degrees.
As a lifelong Seattle-area resident and so-called geriatric millennial, I can attest to the fact that, until recently, Seattle summers truly were second to none in the comfortability department. Highs in the 70s? Check. Bluebird skies after morning clouds? Check. Pleasant sea breezes in the evening to take the edge off the day’s warmth? Check.
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Euro Markets: EUAs hit new all-time high above €58 with “gas in charge”
Australia ranks last for climate action among UN member countries
Nation scores just 10 out of 100 on tackling fossil fuel emissions in new report on sustainable development goals
Australia has been ranked last for climate action out of nearly 200 countries in a report assessing progress towards global sustainable development goals.
The Sustainable Development Report 2021, first reported by Renew Economy, scored Australia last out of 193 United Nations member countries for action taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Continue reading...No water, no life: running out of water on the California-Oregon border
Paul Crawford’s crops are dying. Salmon sacred to Frankie Myers’ Native American tribe are slipping away. Along the California-Oregon border, the climate crisis is worsening a water crisis decades in the making – leaving farmers and indigenous communities scrambling to keep their traditions alive.
Continue reading...‘Deeply irresponsible’: federal government loan for new Queensland coalmine criticised by campaigners
Conservationists say Pembroke Resources mine will increase carbon emissions and wouldn’t need public money if financially viable
The Morrison government has announced a $175m loan to help build a large new metallurgical coalmine in central Queensland, in a move conservationists have labelled “deeply irresponsible”.
Climate campaigners have said the loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Naif) to develop the $900m Olive Downs mine in the Bowen Basin was “a bad idea”. They argued the Pembroke Resources project would increase global carbon emissions by contributing to “dirty” steelmaking and would not need public backing if it was financially viable.
Continue reading...Gunnedah solar farm registered in NSW, begins sending power to the grid
Gunnedah solar farm completes registration and starts injecting power into the grid.
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Australia ranked dead last in world for climate action in latest UN report
Australia again found to be lagging on climate action, ranking last of all 193 countries assessed in authoritative UN-backed report.
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Powerlink looks to battery storage to help solve grid stability problems
Powerlink turns to battery storage to help solve grid stability issues, part of a new "tailored" solutions package to support more wind and solar.
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Pitt approves huge loan for Queensland coal project, after rejecting wind farm
After blocking a loan to a Queensland wind project, resources minister Keith Pitt approves a $175m government loan to a coal mine.
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Five Asian countries risk Paris target with 80% of globe’s planned new coal
Carbon Tracker report says five Asian countries will account for most of new coal investment, but virtually none of these investments will be profitable.
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Full steam ahead for Cornwall’s geothermal energy project
Team behind project at United Downs site near Redruth say power plant will be producing electricity and heat by next year
It has taken a decade of hard graft – and some bold, imaginative thinking – but a plume of steam finally exploded into the clear Cornish air, a signal of what is being heralded as a breakthrough for an energy project that taps into the hot rocks of the far south-west of Britain.
The blast of steam at the United Downs site near Redruth, once a global mining capital, is being billed as proof that deep geothermal power can be part of the solution to the UK’s search for alternative sources of energy.
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