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Help needed to rescue UK's old rainfall records
Acciona to build huge 1GW wind farm in Queensland after landing CleanCo deal
Cleanco deal paves way for 1GW wind project - the biggest in Australia - to be built in Queensland.
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Thirty Australian energy experts issue letter calling for halt to Snowy 2.0
Thirty Australian energy experts call for a halt to Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, questioning environmental and economic viability of the massive project.
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Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds
Findings of new study are the latest in a string of papers to suggest methane emissions from the fossil-fuel industry have been “severely underestimated”.
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New York sees peak power decrease amid coronavirus outbreak, shelter-in-place orders
California issues 535k offsets as G-CCO discount tightens on allowance crash
POLL: Last year’s EU ETS emissions fell by most since 2009, analysts estimate
Virginia officials do not envision any cap revisions to proposed RGGI regulation
Mexico targets Q4 for publishing compliance offset protocols
EU carbon border tax plans due next spring, as other nations watch closely
Ranger captures moment grizzly bear emerges from hibernation in Canada – video
A hulking grizzly bear has found online stardom after he was caught groggily emerging from hibernation on camera. Canadian ranger Nicole Gagnon filmed the end of Boo's hibernation on her phone, a moment she said she had been waiting to document for eight years. It has since been viewed over 100,000 times on Twitter. Boo, 18, draws thousands of tourists every year to his 20-acre enclosure near the town of Golden, Canada
Continue reading...Under coronavirus, ideologies are overturned around the world. But it is too little, too late | Jeff Sparrow
If there is an economic alternative now, there was one before – and we are all suffering from the failure to take it
Covid-19 isn’t just infecting humans. It’s also weakening ideology.
Think about Tina: the acronym popularised after Margaret Thatcher declared that “There is no alternative” to the market economy.
Continue reading...Global efforts on ozone help reverse southern jet stream damage
Jet stream appears to have stopped moving south and may be moving back towards normal
International cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return the southern jet stream to a normal state after decades of human-caused disruption, a study shows.
Scientists say the findings prove there is the capacity to heal damaged climate systems if governments act promptly and in coordination to deal with the causes.
Continue reading...It takes a whole world to create a new virus, not just China | Laura Spinney
Viruses such as Covid-19 wouldn’t emerge in food markets if it wasn’t for factory farming, globalised industry and rapid urbanisation
- Laura Spinney is the author of The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
When I get stressed, a patch of annoying red eczema appears on the inside of my upper right arm. The doctor gives me some cream to rub on it, but I also know that to stop it coming back I have to deal with the underlying problem.
Too much information, you’re thinking, but let me make the analogy. The reason we shouldn’t call the Sars-CoV-2 virus causing global misery the “Chinese virus” is the same reason I shouldn’t blame my eczema on my upper arm: there is clearly a superficial weakness there, but the real cause lies elsewhere.
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