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....
Emissions in the state increased by almost 9 million tonnes between 2021 and 2022....
Startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass to the seafloor.
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....
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...
Heat stress from global heating could lead to impaired vision and increased deaths of pregnant mothers and their unborn young, Australian researchers say
It’s what scientists don’t know about native Australian bees that has them deeply concerned....
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8796213...
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.
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/8969234...
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.
Yes, fly across the planet to Australia and stab the GBR in the heart with your massive emissions /s....
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/11636550...
A worm-filled gel has been shown to protect crops from pests, without the use of environmentally-unfriendly pesticides.
Article includes an interactive & searchable map of commercial air pollution hot spots
Climate change has been singled out as the leading cause of bleaching across the world’s coral reefs.
these of course come with their own tradeoffs, but you take what you can get
Here is the study: Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests...
Australian households could save $9.3 billion on energy bills each year by investing in the untapped solar potential of residential rooftops across the nation, a new report has found....