Staggering amounts of valuable metals are ending up in the trash (qz.com)
‘Solar-powered vacuum cleaners’: the native plants that could clean toxic soil (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Indigenous groups see hope in the environmentally friendly process of bioremediation. But will cities pay attention?
Woodside Energy’s climate plan rejected by shareholders in ‘globally unprecedented’ rebuke (www.theguardian.com)
Gold Coast City Council under investigation after major sewage spill into Albert River (www.abc.net.au)
A Queensland council is under investigation by the state government after at least 350 million litres of raw sewage spilled into a Gold Coast river....
WA's greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb above 2005 levels despite net zero pledge (www.abc.net.au)
Emissions in the state increased by almost 9 million tonnes between 2021 and 2022....
Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass to the seafloor.
Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls (reneweconomy.com.au)
National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition....
“We Can’t Just Stand By And Let Them Do This” — MVP Pipeline Protester Locks Herself To Excavator (itsgoingdown.org)
‘If we don’t shoot wolves, we will lose caribou’: the dilemma of saving endangered deer (www.theguardian.com)
Australia's first solar garden sprouts in Grong Grong, taking the renewables boom to the community (www.abc.net.au)
The ‘solar gardeners’, who mostly live in cities hours away, are getting returns of $505, possibly higher, locked in for the next decade, depending on the electricity market...
Octopuses could lose eyesight and struggle to survive if ocean temperatures keep rising, study finds (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Heat stress from global heating could lead to impaired vision and increased deaths of pregnant mothers and their unborn young, Australian researchers say
Lack of research on Australia's native bees could be detrimental to their survival, experts say (www.abc.net.au)
It’s what scientists don’t know about native Australian bees that has them deeply concerned....
For the first time in decades, the elusive call of the ‘bunyip bird’ returns to Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands (www.theguardian.com)
Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining (www.nytimes.com)
No issues with climate change or Cost of Living then huh ? (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8796213...
UN plastics treaty: don’t let lobbyists drown out researchers (www.nature.com)
Why the kookaburra’s iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced (theconversation.com)
As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.
Critically endangered northern corroboree frogs spotted in Namadgi National Park for the first time in five years (www.abc.net.au)
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/8969234...
Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange, saline beauty.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers worst bleaching on record | Environment News | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Yes, fly across the planet to Australia and stab the GBR in the heart with your massive emissions /s....
Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field | Sierra Solter [Guardian, opinion] (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/11636550...
Eco-friendly agricultural gel replaces toxic pesticides with worms (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
A worm-filled gel has been shown to protect crops from pests, without the use of environmentally-unfriendly pesticides.
The deadly sea slug that steals venom from its prey (www.livescience.com)
Why EPA Efforts to Clean Up Kentucky Town Haven’t Worked — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
Article includes an interactive & searchable map of commercial air pollution hot spots