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I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope | Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
via theguardian.comEarth’s greatest living structure is dying. But the humanity of reef scientists is as beautiful as any coral I’ve ever seen From the dry lab on One Tree Island research station – about 100km off the coast from Gladstone and in the southern region of the Great Barrier Reef – I watch a steady procession of scientists walk to their next encounter with what has become the biggest palliative care unit on the planet.These scientists head out to the reef like doctors heading to -
Price driven: electric cars have never been cheaper. Is it now time to buy an EV?
via theguardian.comCarmakers are scrambling as new EV models arrive amid a glut of supply – and Australian buyers are likely to benefitMore models, increased competition and excess stock have created an EV buyer’s market.Unprecedented discounts have made electric cars more affordable than ever as carmakers scramble for market share. Continue reading... -
Mushroom-growing boom could cause biodiversity crisis, warn UK experts
via theguardian.comRHS fears non-native fungi could alter microbiology of soil when grown in gardens or disposed of in compost heapsA boom in the popularity of mushroom-growing at home could lead to a biodiversity disaster, UK garden experts have warned.There has been a rise in the number of people growing mushrooms in their gardens, and this year, the RHS Chelsea flower show’s plant of the year award included a mushroom – the tarragon oyster mushroom, thought to be found only in the British Isles &nda -
Activists hold three-day protest in EU election run-up as green agenda slips
via theguardian.comCampaign groups in 127 cities demand urgent climate action amid fears of far-right gainsActivists across Europe are holding three days of protests to protect democracy and cut pollution as they struggle to push green issues back up the agenda before the European elections next week.Last year was the hottest on record, and the urgency of the climate crisis is pressing. However, polls are predicting wins for far-right parties seeking to scrap green rules, and there have been significant recent rol -
Week in wildlife – in pictures: playful baby lemurs, kingfisher tug-of-war and a beautiful bee-eater
via theguardian.comThe best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading... -
Can heat pumps be installed in older properties?
via theguardian.comCritics claim the technology is best suited to newbuilds – but studies reveal success with retrofits and in poorly insulated homes• Do heat pumps work at freezing temperatures?
• Are heat pumps more expensive to run than gas boilers?The belief that heat pumps will work only in newbuild homes is still widely held.The number of heat pumps installed every year across the EU is expected to surge by the end of the decade as governments take aim at household carbon emissions. Continue -
Market value of carbon offsets drops 61%, report finds
via theguardian.comNegative scientific and press reports on the efficacy of carbon credit projects has led to a ‘direct pullback in buyer investment’The market for carbon offsets shrank dramatically last year, falling from $1.9bn (£1.5bn) in 2022 to $723m in 2023, a new report has found. The drop came after a series of scientific and media reports found many offsetting schemes do nothing to mitigate the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.The research by Ecosystem Marketplace, a nonprofit initia -
India’s ‘sinking island’ looks to election for survival – in pictures
via theguardian.comFor many on Ghoramara, the general election is about the climate crisis and survival. The island, 150km south of Kolkata and named the ‘sinking island’ by the media, has lost nearly half its area to soil erosion in the past two decades and could disappear if a solution is not found. As voters across India cast their ballots on issues ranging from the cost of living to jobs and religion, politicians trying to win votes in Ghoramara need to put the climate crisis to the fore as the isl -
Bids for bathing water status in England paused in blow for river cleanups
via theguardian.comCampaigners suspect block on new applications for at least two years was imposed to limit burden on water firmsThe government has suspended all applications for bathing water status in waterways, delaying the cleanup of rivers and coastal waters for at least two years.River campaigners fear the block on new applications to create bathing water areas, which are regularly tested for water quality, has been introduced to stop water companies facing huge resource implications to tackle poor water qu -
Factcheck: no, Richard Tice, volcanoes are not to blame for climate change
via theguardian.comReform UK’s leader has made some eye-opening statements on the climate, and his party’s manifesto is packed with even more falsehoodsDespite 40C record heat in 2022 and the wettest 18 months on record this winter, this general election seems set to test the UK’s political consensus on climate change like never before.Reform UK, the rightwing party that describes itself as offering “commonsense” policies on immigration and energy, has eschewed the consensus in favour -
Country diary: A silent killer that loves the long days | Cal Flyn
via theguardian.comStromness, Orkney: Short-eared owls are a such a compelling sight as they hunt in the light. They cruise the rugged heathland, then suddenly disappearIt’s been a week of clear skies and luminous evenings – a stretch of calm, still weather that has been felt as a physical release, even an act of mercy, after a seemingly unending winter. Finally, now, the days have stretched and warped into their long summer shape, the seabirds have been returning to the cliffs, and the uplands are gil -
‘Unliveable’: Delhi’s residents struggle to cope in record-breaking heat
via theguardian.comTemperatures of more than 45C have left population of 29 million exhausted – but the poorest suffer mostAs the water tanker drove into a crowded Delhi neighbourhood, a ruckus erupted. Dozens of residents ran frantically behind it, brandishing buckets, bottles and hoses, and jumped on top of it to get even a drip of what was stored inside. Temperatures that day had soared to 49C (120F), the hottest day on record – and in many places across India’s vast capital, home to more than -
Barnaby Joyce ditched his RM Williams to protest green energy … Wait until he finds out about his new boots | Calla Wahlquist
via theguardian.comThe Nationals MP is against RM Williams owner Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s renewables projects – so why wear Ariats?Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityEarlier today, as I was reverse Google image searching a picture of Barnaby Joyce’s feet, I wondered if I was perhaps taking this too seriously.The National party MP has been attending parliament without his habitual RM Williams boots in prote -
‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week
via theguardian.comBorn out of an anti-car protest in 1974, the Colombian capital closes many roads to cars every Sunday, leaving them free for bikes, skates and pedestriansOnce a week the citizens of Bogotá take back the streets of their city. Every Sunday, between 7am and 2pm, many of the biggest roads are shut to cars and left open to bikes, skates and feet.“Ciclovía is really cool because there is a lot more space for us,” says seven-year-old Oliver Rojas, who is out cycling with his -
California comedown: how illicit cannabis farms have left a wilderness where ‘you’re lucky to see a lizard’
via theguardian.comThe golden state legalised marijuana production in 2016, but strict curbs have led to a thriving black market. Its hub is in Siskiyou county, where the environmental damage is clear to seeIn the shadow of Mount Shasta in northern California, a sea of makeshift greenhouses and plywood huts sprawls between the conifer trees of the high desert. From the air, many of the polytunnels look in bad shape, their plastic covers torn by the wind to reveal what’s inside: hundreds of cannabis plants pa -
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
via theguardian.comAnalysis of the carbon offset projects used by top corporations including Delta, Gucci and ExxonMobil raises concerns around their emission cuts claimsSome of the world’s most profitable – and most polluting corporations – have invested in carbon offset projects that have fundamental failings and are “probably junk”, suggesting industry claims about greenhouse gas reductions were likely overblown, according to new analysis.Delta, Gucci, Volkswagen, ExxonMobil, Disne -
‘It was like the wild west’: meet the First Nations guardians protecting Canada’s pristine shores
via theguardian.comFrom crab monitoring and bear patrols to rescue operations, the watchmen are the official eyes and ears of indigenous communitiesIt’s Delaney Mack’s first time pulling crab traps and she is unsure what to do. Mack, the newest member of the Nuxalk Guardian Watchmen, has had months of training for the multifaceted job, which might on any given day include rescuing a kayaker, taking ocean samples or monitoring a logging operation. But winching crabs up 100ft from the sea floor was not i -
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates | Mariana Mazzucato
via theguardian.comBig tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environmentMariana Mazzucato is professor of economics at UCL, and director of the Institute for Innovation and Public PurposeWhen you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres hou -
Country diary: The perfect day to be in a rainforest | Andrea Meanwell
via theguardian.comBorrowdale, Lake District: We’re here to mark the declaration of this rare temperate rainforest as a nature reserve – in appropriately soggy conditionsIt is a very wet day in Borrowdale and the valley is dripping with nature as well as torrential rain. As we walk through the temperate rainforest looking for rare lichens as part of the declaration of Borrowdale as a national nature reserve (NNR), cuckoos and green woodpeckers sing through the rain.The declaration is the culmination of -
Widening the Lens: using photography to re-examine our environment
via theguardian.comIn a new exhibition, artists find new ways to look at and investigate their natural surroundings and how they interact with human storiesThe striking collection of photographic art presented in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Widening the Lens is very much a revision of the long tradition of landscape photography in the US. It may be very directly revising – as in AK Burns’s reinvention of landscape photographs literally ripped from photo books – or it may be much more subtl -
French fries: why chips are off the menu at the Paris Olympics
via theguardian.comIt’s not just pommes frites. Beef bourguignon, avocado and foie gras will also be unavailableName: french fries.Age: invented about 300 years ago, ironically in Belgium. Continue reading... -
Protesting Indian farmers endure severe heatwave – video
via theguardian.comHundreds of Indian farmers who have been camping for more than 100 days between the Punjab and Haryana states to demand better prices for their crops have been enduring a savage heat wave sweeping swathes of northern India. Temperatures in Delhi, not far from the protest, have hit a record high of 49.9C (121.8F), as authorities warned of water shortages in the capitalDelhi temperature hits 49.9C as India’s capital records hottest dayRecord breaking heat hits Delhi – in pictures Conti -
Thames Water urged to ‘get a grip’ on testing water supply after illness outbreak
via theguardian.comExclusive: Labour calls on firm to urgently test treatment works after dozens in south-east London experience vomiting and diarrhoeaUK politics live – latest updatesSteve Reed, Labour’s shadow environment secretary, has urged Thames Water to “get a grip” and test treatment works “urgently” after it emerged over the weekend that the company had tested the water at only one property.Over the last two weeks, dozens of people in Beckenham, south-east London, have -
Revealed: the rural Californians who can’t sell their businesses – because LA is their landlord
via theguardian.comLos Angeles has long owned large swathes of the Owens valley. An investigation reveals how the city has tightened its gripThis article is reported by AfroLA and co-published by AfroLA, Guardian US and the Mammoth Sheet. It’s the first of several stories examining the impact of Los Angeles’s extensive landownership in the Owens Valley.A red horse statue perched on a 12ft pole greets drivers coming to the town of Bishop from the south. It’s one of the first landmarks here, part o -
As avian flu hops to cows and at least two humans, migrant farm workers are at risk
via theguardian.comOfficials are now incentivizing testing, but experts say workers need protective equipment and paid sick leave to prevent further spreadOn a US dairy farm, working in the milking parlor can mean seven-day weeks, 12-hour shifts and intimate contact with cows and everything they expel.“When you disconnect the machine from the udder, it can shoot milk in your face,” said José Martínez, a former dairy worker and United Farm Workers advocate based in Washington state. &ldquo -
Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds
via theguardian.comIPPR research examines transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and ageWealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study.Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and age. The study broke down the transport emissions into international and domestic flights, private road transport and public transport. Continue -
Make accreditation mandatory for low-carbon heating installers, says Which?
via theguardian.comWidening government-run scheme would counter mistrust among householders, says consumer groupThe next government should force all tradespeople who install home heat pumps, solar panels and insulation to sign up to a mandatory accreditation scheme to counter mistrust in the industry, a leading consumer group is demanding.A report from Which? found that households face “significant anxiety” in choosing tradespeople to fit low-carbon heating systems, such as heat pumps, and insulation a -
Butterflywatch: swallowtail emerges again in Norfolk despite winter floods
via theguardian.comUK’s largest butterfly remains very vulnerable after worst summer since scientific counting beganThe swallowtail, Britain’s biggest butterfly, last year had its worst summer since scientific counting began in 1976. What followed was potentially more catastrophic: the deepest and longest winter floods in living memory across the Norfolk Broads, which is the only place where this spectacular insect still breeds.The swallowtail fixes its chrysalis low down on reed stems and there were f -
Country diary: My ponds are teeming with unseen life | Jan Miller
via theguardian.comHolywell, Flintshire: The joy of pond-dipping never goes away, and now I’m armed with more knowledge to find out what’s in my garden this springI’m dipping into one of our garden ponds on a glorious sunny day, as grasses, buttercups, wild blue geraniums, pink lady’s smock and red spikes of sorrel sway in the breeze. I’ve recently been on a workshop on microscopic pond life, where the tutor, Wyn, was well-practised at using a telescopic-handled golf ball retriever fo -
Satellite to probe mystery of clouds and climate
via bbc.comEurope's Earthcare satellite will tell us if the planet could lose the cooling effect of clouds.
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