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• ‘Destiny in our hands’: the Indigenous Australians joining the renewable energy transition

  20-07-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Just 1% of renewables developments in Australia involve First Nations equity, compared with 20% in Canada. But some believe the sector offers a ‘new moment’ for Aboriginal peopleSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityWind turbines may pay the way for Nari Nari man Jamie Woods’ grand ambitions for his people.“We’ve always said we want the destiny in our hands,” says Woods, the chair of t
  
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• The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

  20-07-2024 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The energy secretary’s plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas is facing a huge backlash The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has been warned he faces battlegrounds across the country over plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas to deliver a “clean power” revolution. Council leaders and communities oppose proposals for a vast new network of pylons across large parts of several counties, including Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshir
  
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• He ‘redeems’ the trash New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

  20-07-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Pedro Romero is one of hundreds of thousands of informal waste workers the world over, from Paris to Bangalore Pedro Romero’s story is a familiar one in New York: he wasn’t born or raised here, but he moved to the city to take advantage of the bustling metropolis’s many opportunities. And in a city full of people willing to hustle to make it work, he’s found an opportunity others might overlook: in the trash.Romero is a Mexico-born, Brooklyn-based waste picker who collect
  
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• Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?

  20-07-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The robotic services allow farmers to rely less on chemicals. ‘This solves a lot of problems,’ workers sayOn a sweltering summer day in central Kansas, farm fields shimmer in the heat as Clint Brauer watches a team of bright yellow robots churn up and down the rows, tirelessly slicing away any weeds that stand in their way while avoiding the growing crops.The battery-powered machines, 4ft (1.2 metres) long and 2ft (0.6 metres) wide, pick their way through the fields with precision, w
  
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• Could robot weedkillers replace the need for herbicides?

  20-07-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The robotic services allow farmers to rely less on chemicals. ‘This solves a lot of problems,’ workers sayOn a sweltering summer day in central Kansas, farm fields shimmer in the heat as Clint Brauer watches a team of bright yellow robots churn up and down the rows, tirelessly slicing away any weeds that stand in their way while avoiding the growing crops.The battery-powered machines, 4ft (1.2 metres) long and 2ft (0.6 metres) wide, pick their way through the fields with precision, w
  
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• ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

  20-07-2024 12:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Twisters is the latest in a long line of movies that fail to address the environmental emergency – experts say it’s a missed opportunityA rodeo crowd waves cowboy hats as a man rides a bucking horse. Then comes a shower of leaves, a chorus of mobile phone rings and a wail of klaxons. Horses run wild and cars collide. One vehicle is whipped into the air by what a weatherman calls a once-in-a-generation tornado outbreak.This is a scene from Twisters, starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edga
  
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• ‘They’ve been something else this year’: slugs wreak havoc on UK gardens

  20-07-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mild and moist spring and cool start to summer have created ideal conditions for the molluscs to thriveThere are about 150 species of slimy molluscs in the UK and while not all of them have a taste for plants, the wet weather conditions in spring and summer has led to slugs causing havoc in gardens, balconies and fields across Britain.Social media has been inundated with people complaining about the amount of slugs cropping up in their green spaces, and desperate for tips on how to get rid of th
  
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• Cop29 host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund

  20-07-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Countries and companies involved in oil and gas extraction to be asked to join scheme aimed at tackling global heatingFossil-fuel producing countries and companies are being asked to pay into a new international fund to help poor countries cope with the effects of the climate crisis.The climate investment fund is being set up by the Azerbaijan government, host country of the Cop29 UN climate summit in November. Continue reading...
  
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• Cultivated food: from lab grown burgers to medicinal berries

  20-07-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  An array of biologically engineered food and drink could help to solve ethical and environmental concernsDogs and cats in the UK are expected to become the first in Europe to be given cultivated meat, a product grown from chicken cells in the laboratory. The pet food promises to alleviate some of the ethical and environmental dilemmas faced by animal lovers. An array of lab-grown dishes, from “cell coffee” to lab-grown oyster meat, could be coming to human plates in the near future.
  
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• ‘The day it goes wrong? We won’t know about it … ’: life next door to a nuclear power station

  20-07-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  France has 56 reactors – more than any other European nation. What is it like to swim, play and live in their shadow?Rain or shine, Christiane Lamiraud, 63, likes to swim in the Channel from the beach near her home in the village of Saint-Martin-en-Campagne, north-east of Dieppe. From the water, it is hard to miss the Penly nuclear power station just 700 metres up the coast at the foot of the chalk cliffs, sucking in seawater to cool its two reactors, then pumping it back out to sea a few
  
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• Country diary: An alarmingly bad day searching for butterflies | Jennifer Jones

  20-07-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Green Beach, Sefton coast, Merseyside: It was a glorious day in a biodiversity hotspot that’s full of different habitats – where were they all?Standing at the Green Beach, I felt positive. A panorama of floral diversity shimmered in front of me, ideal for my mission. The still, sunny, warm conditions were also in my favour, contrasting with the recent unseasonable chilly and damp days. This beach in north Merseyside is a 4km stretch of salt marsh and sand dune habitat and a biod
  
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