Researchers have found that the key to a quick and cost-effective mapping of biodiversity has been right in front of our eyes all along, but at the same time invisible -- i.e., in the air that surrounds us.
Breaking Waves: Ocean News
07/11/2024 - 10:00
As Saturday after Saturday gets wiped out by bad weather, clubs are drowning in a sea of unplayed fixtures
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The first thing Jamie Amendolia’s boys ask him when he picks them up from school every afternoon is the same: “Is training on? Is the game on? Has it been called off? Are we playing?”
Both of his sons, Sebastian, 10, and Alexander, eight, play football at Enfield FC in Sydney’s inner west. They’re footy fanatics. Except both have had their season thrown into chaos by the wet weather that has hit and bogged down Sydney’s weekends for months.
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07/11/2024 - 09:40
Usama Al-Qassab cited tournament’s ‘very thorough vetting process’ after pro-Palestine and climate protests
A top Wimbledon official has staunchly defended the tournament’s sponsorship deal with Barclays, accusing pro-Palestine and climate protesters of seeking to boost their campaigns’ profiles.
Tournament organisers have come under pressure to drop the bank as a sponsor from climate groups and anti-war activists, who accuse Barclays of using the event to “cover up its role” in funding the climate crisis and to “hide from accountability for its role in enabling Israel’s war crimes”.
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07/11/2024 - 07:00
Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects
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Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found.
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07/11/2024 - 06:00
Rescued chicks favour seafood, suggesting they turn to urban diet as adults from necessity rather than preference
Herring gulls have wrecked many a seaside picnic, pouncing on unsuspecting people trying to enjoy a Cornish pasty, a sandwich or a bag of chips.
But a study from the University of Exeter suggests gull chicks prefer seafood even after being raised on a diet of the sort of scraps found around humans.
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07/11/2024 - 03:58
Ofwat says UK’s biggest water company will come under extra scrutiny as it faces prospect of restructuring or temporary renationalisation
Rise in water bills is ‘bitter pill’, says chancellor
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The water industry regulator has put Thames Water into unprecedented special measures, allowing extra scrutiny of the struggling water supplier as it faces the prospect of a painful restructuring or temporary nationalisation.
Ofwat said on Thursday that the company, which is creaking under £15.2bn of debt, would be placed in a “turnaround oversight regime” and subjected to “heightened regulatory” measures, meaning it must regularly report on the progress of its investment plan.
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07/11/2024 - 02:50
Investigation launched after gunshot wounds and injuries from being hit by vehicles found on bodies at Gobarup and near Hotham
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At least 84 kangaroos have been found dead with gunshot wounds and traumatic injuries from being mowed down by a vehicle in two different locations in regional Victoria.
The state’s Conservation Regulator was investigating after finding at least 65 dead juvenile and adult eastern grey kangaroos in Gobarup, in central Victoria. About 19 more kangaroos were found dead suffering from similar injuries about 270km west of Gobarup, near Hotham.
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07/10/2024 - 23:00
Seals have been biting people in the first big outbreak of the disease in marine mammals, writes Nick Dall in Cape Town
It’s happened to me dozens of times: I’m riding a wave when, out of the corner of my eye, I see a black shape coming up beneath me. Being in Cape Town – a great white shark hotspot – it’s hard not to assume the worst. But fear soon gives into relief when it becomes clear that I’m sharing the wave with a Cape fur seal. Sometimes, they get so close you can see the bubbles on their whiskers.
Now, nine seals have tested positive for rabies – the world’s first significant outbreak of the disease in marine mammals – and people like me are watching the water along this 400-mile (600km) coastline for a different reason.
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07/10/2024 - 23:00
Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s target
The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a report has found.
Research published on Thursday by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), an NGO, found that China has 180 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar power under construction and 15GW of wind power. That brings the total of wind and solar power under construction to 339GW, well ahead of the 40GW under construction in the US.
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07/10/2024 - 10:45
Exclusive: Letter from senators, led by Elizabeth Warren, says JPMorgan may have misled investors and public
JPMorgan Chase, the world’s biggest investor in fossil fuels, may have misled investors and the public by backtracking on its already weak climate and environmental commitments, six US senators have warned in a letter to the CEO Jamie Dimon.
Although a climate-disrupted world demands stronger action by the financial sector to reduce emissions and protect nature, the Wall Street firm is heading in the opposite direction, say the upper chamber legislators, who include Senate banking committee member Elizabeth Warren.
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