Date: 25 July 2021 at 8:30:41 am AEST
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Subject: Daily Links Jul 25
Post of the Day
Not declaring the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ only postpones the inevitable
Jon C. Day et al
After much anticipation, the World Heritage Committee on Friday decided against listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”.
On This Day
Beginning of Vassa – Buddhism
Reek Sunday – Ireland
Climate Change
Group of 20 nations fails to agree on phasing out coal by 2025
The G20 group of rich nations failed to agree on phasing out coal by 2025 at a meeting of energy and environment ministers on Friday marking 100 days until the crucial COP26 climate talks begin in Scotland in November.
National
‘Virtually no protection’: Why Australian homes are so cold
Low building standards, various design features, and a warm-weather mentality work against us in winter.
We can’t manage the Murray-Darling Basin without community trust
Malcolm Turnbull
With a recycled Barnaby Joyce back as leader, and deputy PM, the National Party broke ranks with the Morrison Government to demand major changes to the Murray-Darling Basin plan.
Letters
Age readers have their say.
We will pay a heavy price for climate change inaction
Letters
One reader says Scott Morrison needs to rein in his new deputy.
Victoria
Stopping all marginal seats: A Melbourne guide to the car parks controversy
The controversial $660 million program promised to deliver for commuters around the city. Here’s a guide to where the money was supposed to go and why it’s gone wrong.
Yarra Ranges Council not involved in Heritage kangaroo cull decision
Council wishes to advise it was not involved in any decision to approve the culling of kangaroos at the Heritage Golf and Country Club.
Bushfires tipped to scorch Victoria’s economy for years
Victoria’s economy will still be paying a price for the devastating bushfires of 2019 and 2020 a decade after the blazes ravaged vast areas of the state.
Many Canberra homes could already have zero carbon emissions, one competition wants to find them
You might be living in a zero carbon emission house, and not even know it, one architect says.
West Gate Tunnel scrap turns ugly as worker details leaked
More than 750 Transurban staff — from the chief executive to graduates — have had private details posted online as the battle over contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel project turns nasty.
New South Wales
South Coast villages brace for development influx amid city exodus
In Eurobodalla Shire, anger has been fanned by the council’s recent decision to sell off more than 40 hectares of pristine forest near Dalmeny.
ACT
Barton Highway duplication: Onerwal Land Council calls for redesign of stage one upgrades near ACT border [$]
Aboriginal cultural trees home to vulnerable squirrel gliders just across the ACT border could be heavily damaged or killed if a section of the $200 million Barton Highway duplication is not redesigned, Indigenous leaders and environmental advocates have warned.
Let’s not be slaves to the Griffin vision for Canberra [$]
Steve Evans
Great cities are walkable. You don’t need a car to live in a great city.
Queensland
Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley says lobbying almost 20 nations led to the outcome as parties were convinced by the “merits of our argument”. But scientists say they are concerned politics has eclipsed the science.
Palaszczuk backs UNESCO Great Barrier Reef decision
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says UNESCO’s decision not to list the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage site “in danger” for now sets a clear timeline for its protection.
Barrier Reef tourism boss welcomes UNESCO reprieve
The decision to grant Australia a 12-month reprieve to avoid an “in-danger” Reef listing is “very positive”, says the head of the Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators.
The Great Barrier Reef is not on the ‘in danger’ list. Why, and what happens next?
Graham Readfearn
Never before had the world heritage committee been asked to list a site mainly because of climate impacts – and it wasn’t willing to
Australia avoids global embarrassment, but the dangers for the reef are real
Michael Slezak
Let’s strip away the politics and look at the facts — the things that actually matter to the reef.
The reef is in danger, no matter what politicians say [$]
David Ritter
Australia’s “Minister for the Environment” has been travelling the world telling a lie so huge that it is literally visible from space.
Not declaring the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ only postpones the inevitable
Jon C. Day et al
After much anticipation, the World Heritage Committee on Friday decided against listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”.
Talisman Sabre: When the environment becomes collateral damage
Rita Camilleri
A major military training exercise being held in Queensland could spell long-term disaster for the environment.
South Australia
Old dumps are no place for homes [$]
The disturbing case of the sinking home in Pasadena could be the tip of the iceberg with old landfill sites littered across Adelaide, but at least Highbury is safe from development.
Tasmania
Break O’Day Council commission report into wood heater debate after Kylie Wright motion
Break O’Day Council has resolved to see if where there is smoke there is fire when it comes to the longstanding wood heater debate.
‘The battery hen of the sea’: the fight to clean up Tassie salmon farms
The state’s most renowned author Richard Flanagan, along with a host of scientists and environmentalists, are pitted against an industry and government they say are risking the very core of Brand Tassie: its pristine natural environment.
Cataract Gorge deprived of its natural flushing river flows
Letters
Wow, what a brilliant suggestion from Richard Jones: install a mini hydro scheme at the base of Trevallyn Dam to generate electricity while restoring South Esk River flows
Sustainability
Water resources: Defusing conflict, promoting cooperation
Researchers have developed a methodology for avoiding conflicts of use in transboundary rivers.
New tracking system monitors danger to rainforests
Similar to the election needle and the stock market index, scientists have developed a new tracking system to detect danger to rainforests around the world. The data to build the index was culled from advanced satellite measurements of climate and vegetation of each tropical region on Earth.
The impact of climate change on Kenya’s Tana river basin
Many species within Kenya’s Tana River Basin will be unable to survive if global temperatures continue to rise as they are on track to do – according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Southeastern US herbaria digitize three million specimens, now freely available online
The National Science Foundation recently provided funding to over 100 herbaria across the Southeast U.S. to digitize more than three million plant specimens collected by botanists and naturalists across the country.
New measure of tropical forest vulnerability to help avoid ‘tipping point’
umid tropical forests, vital in global efforts to limit rising temperatures, are under threat as a result of changes in land use and climate. Now, researchers have developed a new way to keep tabs on the vulnerability of these forests on a global scale using satellite data called the tropical forest vulnerability index (TFVI).
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