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Australia’s coal and gas exports cause more climate damage than those from any other country bar Russia, according to a new study that argues the country is undermining a global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels.
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Dozens of scientists are sounding the alarm that carving a commercial waterway through the world’s largest wetlands could spell the “end of an entire biome”, and leave hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to be devastated by wildfires.
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The chalkhill blue has some surprising claims to fame. For a start, it is one of the UK’s most beautiful butterflies, as can be seen as they flutter above the grasslands of southern England in summer. ...more |
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Extreme rainfall and severe flooding in China led to a near doubling in economic losses from natural disasters in July from a year earlier, the government said. ...more |
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In line with Abu Dhabi Climate Change Strategy, the Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi (EAD) has launched the first project of its kind in the region to electronically link (e-link) the entire Stacks Automated Monitoring System (AMS) in the Industrial, Energy and Oil & Gas Sectors across the emirate of Abu Dhabi directly to its emissions monitoring system. The new e-linking system is designed to connect up to 500 stacks, enabling real-time data collection. ...more |
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Fossil fuel companies are running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” so that countries will slow down the adoption of renewable energy and the speed with which they “transition away” from a carbon-intensive economy, the UN has said. ...more |
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When “I can has cheezburger?” became one of the first internet memes to blow our minds, it’s unlikely that anyone worried about how much energy it would use up. ...more |
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Photographs of smog enveloping Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium became one of the defining images of the first decade of this century. China’s annual air pollution deaths reached 2.6 million people a year in 2005. At the time, Beijing was crowned smog capital of the world and concerns for the health of athletes overshadowed preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games. ...more |
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Australia and New Zealand said they would provide A$42.6 million ($28.05 million) for Pacific Island countries, which span millions of kilometres of ocean, to store humanitarian aid in the region to prepare for increasing climate disasters. ...more |
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Last month was the second hottest July for the planet on record, breaking a 13-month period when each month was warmest, which had been in part fuelled by the warming El Nino weather pattern, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. ...more |
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