Australia announces new plan for net zero: Extract gas to 2050 and beyond (www.sbs.com.au)
Bushcare at Wolli Creek: Met a turtle (aussie.zone)
Encountered this fellow during bushcare today. He was sitting right on top of the bridal veil roots we were pulling, looking suspiciously like a rock....
Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods? (theconversation.com)
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Methane emissions: Australian cattle industry suggests shift from net zero target to ‘climate neutral’ approach (www.theguardian.com)
Red handfish deaths recorded as specimens released back into wild (slrpnk.net)
Another one on the way … to extinction! Not one mention of climate change in the article :)...
Reef in crisis: Scientists despair – and are reduced to tears – as corals perish (reneweconomy.com.au)
Parched south-west is 'canary in the coal mine' reflecting Australia’s climate change reality (www.abc.net.au)
So certainly for Australia, it’s south-west WA where that declining rainfall trend is going to be most acute," Australian National University climate scientist Nerilie Abram said....
Electric garbage truck trialled in regional Australia drives 'like a limousine' (www.abc.net.au)
Sustainable town scrapped as one of Australia's biggest green energy projects reconsiders environmental impact (www.abc.net.au)
In short: A new North West town for 8,000 people will no longer be built as part of a massive renewable energy project when it re-seeks environment approvals. The federal environment law has been criticised for rejecting more renewable projects than fossil fuel ones. What’s next? The proponent behind the North West energy...
“Simply astounding:” Australian coal mine methane emissions may be twice offical data (reneweconomy.com.au)
Australia’s coal mine methane emissions are being vastly underreported and are damaging the nation’s credibility on climate change, economist Professor Rod Sims has warned....
NSW to announce life extension of Eraring, Australia’s largest coal-fired power station (www.theguardian.com)
The New South Wales government will announce within days it will extend the operations of Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station for as long as four years....
I couldn't get past the foreword and not be horrified (slrpnk.net)
Glacing out my window here in rural NE Tas, we’re still warring with nature and nature is loosing....
Australia's tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived—and we shouldn't be burning them (phys.org)
Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people....
160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video (www.theguardian.com)
The two unlikely states leading Australia’s stunning growth in rooftop PV output (reneweconomy.com.au)
We’re thinking about climate risk the wrong way (reneweconomy.com.au)
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....
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....
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...
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)
No issues with climate change or Cost of Living then huh ? (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
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