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Report: Great Barrier Reef found to be in failing health as world heritage review looms
The Guardian: Great Barrier Reef found to be in failing health as world heritage review looms. Reef water quality report card gives condition of marine environment a ‘D’ grade relative to earlier reports.
A government report card has found the marine environment along the Great Barrier Reef’s coastline remains […]
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Andrew Forrest on how green steel and hydrogen offer a chance to fix our climate and our economy
ABC.Net.AU: Andrew Forrest on how green steel and hydrogen offer a chance to fix our climate and our economy.
Green hydrogen gives Australia an opportunity to slash our emissions — and if we get this right, the impact could be nothing short of nation-building, argues business leader Andrew Forrest in […]
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Study: Climate change pushed ocean temperatures to record high in 2020
ABC.net.au: Climate change pushed ocean temperatures to record high in 2020, study finds. The world’s oceans absorbed 20 sextillion joules of heat due to climate change in 2020 and warmed to record levels, a study has found.
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Last year the world’s oceans absorbed 20 zettajoules of […]
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Study: Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
The Guardian: Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis. Weaker sharks are less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say authors of study into impacts of hotter oceans.
Baby sharks will emerge from their egg cases earlier […]
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The Daily Climate, December 17, 2020
The Daily Climate discusses: Carbon-neutral flight; building emissions; China, coal, and Australia; Solar project in NW Arctic; fastest growing food source; Canada’s hydrogen strategy; Study – forests and heat and dryness; Australian farms and drought.
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Study: Rising Temperatures Driving a Shift to All-Female Sea Turtle Populations
Yale Environment 360 discusses Rising Temperatures Driving a Shift to All-Female Sea Turtle Populations.
Whether marine turtles are born male or female is dependent on the temperature of their nest during incubation. As global temperatures rise, scientists have found that the sand around the Red Sea is now warm enough […]
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Report: The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Officially in ‘Critical’ Condition
Vice discusses why The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Officially in ‘Critical’ Condition. A UNESCO advisory body had made the sobering announcement after several years of back-to-back bleachings.
The Great Barrier Reef’s condition was given the worst possible rating this week, as a UNESCO advisory body named climate change as […]
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War of the weedkiller: why environmentalists are concerned about moves to ban Roundup
The guardian discusses War of the weedkiller: why environmentalists are concerned about moves to ban Roundup. Many say herbicide is an essential tool in preserving biodiversity but others say it’s a ‘delusion’ to think weed control is only possible with ‘poison’.
Glyphosate – the weedkiller better known by its […]
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Report: Want to Fight the Zombie Fire Apocalypse? Weaponize Math
Wired discusses Want to Fight the Zombie Fire Apocalypse? Weaponize Math. Peat fires smolder in the ground for months, suddenly emerging as surface wildfires. New simulations reveal their strange life, death, and reanimation.
THE LARGEST FIRES on Earth aren’t the monsters that have been burning across California and Australia, but the zombies […]
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Report: Renewables cut Australia’s emissions more than Covid, energy analysis finds
The Guardian discusses how Renewables cut Australia’s emissions more than Covid, energy analysis finds. Wind and solar displacing coal in the five states of the national energy market. [No report link provided.]
Wind and solar power pushing out fossil fuel generation has cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions more than the […]
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