It’s ludicrous to say there is a gas crisis in Australia when we are set to overtake Qatar to become the world’s biggest gas producer. Australia has plenty of gas to meet our needs and the world has three times as much fossil fuel reserves that can be used to keep global temperature rises below 2◦C. We have […]
Mar 27 2017 | Posted in
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There is nowhere else on the planet right now where the dichotomy between two potential futures – one where we address the climate change crisis, one where we ignore this momentous threat and continue with business as usual – is playing out in such a dramatic and explosive way as Australia. In the US, Donald […]
Mar 27 2017 | Posted in
Climate change |
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Research programme will send aerosol injections into the earth’s upper atmosphere to study the risks and benefits of a future solar tech-fix for climate change. US scientists are set to send aerosol injections 20km up into the earth’s stratosphere in the world’s biggest solar geoengineering programme to date, to study the potential of a future […]
Mar 25 2017 | Posted in
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Due to inefficient solutions in power lines, over 4000 saker falcons worth MNT 64 billion die annually in Mongolia. This number increases twice in some years. Study conducted by researchers at Wildlife Science and Conservation Center shows that the majority of the saker falcons died from sitting on power lines are baby falcons or one-year-old […]
Mar 23 2017 | Posted in
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Almost three-quarters of the 35 victims were male, and 20% were bitten while trying to pick up or kill snake. More than half of the deaths caused by snake bites in Australia since 2000 have occurred in or around the victim’s home, a nationwide review has found. The coronial-based retrospective study of fatalities from January 2000 to […]
Mar 23 2017 | Posted in
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Extent of ice over North pole has fallen to a new wintertime low, for the third year in a row, as climate change drives freakish weather. The extent of Arctic ice has fallen to a new wintertime low, as climate change drives freakishly high temperatures in the polar regions. The ice cap grows during the winter months […]
Mar 23 2017 | Posted in
Climate change |
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Unicef report says climate change and conflict are intensifying risks to children of living without enough water, and that the poorest will suffer most. One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a result of climate change, the UN has warned. Within two […]
Mar 22 2017 | Posted in
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Anent the admirable Stephen Moss’s remark (Birdwatch, 20 March) that his snow bunting on the Somerset coast was “probably the furthest south they ever get”, I have been spotting snow buntings all across the Alps for more than 40 years. In winter they are common, often seen in flocks around picnic spots, in all the high […]
Mar 22 2017 | Posted in
Wildlife |
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Trees and green spaces are unrecognized healers offering benefits from increases in mental wellbeing to allergy reductions, says report. People living close to trees and green spaces are less likely to be obese, inactive, or dependent on anti-depressants, according to a new report. Middle-aged Scottish men with homes in deprived but verdant areas were found to […]
Mar 22 2017 | Posted in
Health |
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Green groups’ report says move to cleaner energy in China and India is discouraging the building of coal-fired units. The amount of new coal power being built around the world fell by nearly two-thirds last year, prompting campaigners to claim the polluting fossil fuel is in freefall. The dramatic decline in new coal-fired units was […]
Mar 22 2017 | Posted in
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