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Farmers manage more than half the country. We all have a stake in them getting it right
Gabrielle Chan
If you eat, you have an interest in farming. If you care about the environment, you have an interest in farming. Yet Australia has no national agriculture strategy
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Arbor Day – Argentina
Lake Sevan Day – Armenia
Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Closure Anniversary – Kazakhstan
International Day Against Nuclear Tests
Climate Change
Climate change challenge: Terminology used by scientists confounds public
Study participants offered helpful suggestions for improving climate language
UNIST professors’ new book sheds new light on carbon neutrality
South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has announced that a recent publication by its faculty members sets out the key research directions and new alternatives towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
Carbon neutrality – a new policy brief for municipalities world wide
How to design efficient demo areas for urban carbon sequestration? In the latest policy brief research groups from the University of Helsinki and Aalto University focus on the main principles of urban demonstration areas using biochars for carbon sequestration.
National
Native bees make a healthy honey no others make, and now we know how
It’s not made by any other bee and is better for you. Now scientists know how native stingless bees make healthy honey.
Emissions Reduction Fund reaches 1,000 project milestone
The milestone project is at Binginbar Farm in New South Wales. The farm will use new practices to increase soil carbon levels and improve water retention. Storing carbon in agricultural soil reduces emissions and can increase a farm’s productivity.
Farmers manage more than half the country. We all have a stake in them getting it right
Gabrielle Chan
If you eat, you have an interest in farming. If you care about the environment, you have an interest in farming. Yet Australia has no national agriculture strategy
Victoria
Call for urgent action on climate change to protect communities
Councillors from across Melbourne’s south east have called on Government to support their communities to take urgent action and protect them from the impacts of climate change.
Working together for environment
Bass Coast Shire Council renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bass Coast Landcare Network (BCLN) at its August Meeting. The partnership between BCLN and Council has helped to deliver a vast improvement in the natural environment in Bass Coast over the past 27 years.
New South Wales
Making most of every opportunity to provide new homes for wildlife
Sadly, every year in the Byron Shire a number of large and mature trees die of old age, are damaged by lightning strike, or succumb to insects such as termites.
A bridge too far: can Sydney overcome nimbyism to become a cycling city?
The delays and opposition to the long-awaited Harbour Bridge ramp are emblematic of a city still not at peace with cyclists
Queensland
Endangered southern black-throated finch to be monitored at Bravus mine site
Bravus, the company formerly known as Adani, has outlined how it will try to protect the black-throated finch.
Tiny flying foxes go from certain death to ‘burritos’ in blankets
A massive rescue effort spanning more than 500 kilometres has helped a colony of little red flying foxes escape probable death from predators and falling temperatures.
Tasmania
More than 200 King Island residents protest seismic testing with paddle out
King Island residents have come out in numbers, holding a “paddle out” in opposition to US oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips coming into its waters to seismic blast for fossil fuel.
Northern Territory
Crime and climate change are deciding votes in today’s NT council elections
Many eyes are on Alice Springs in today’s local government elections, where a new mayor will be elected for the first time in 13 years.
Western Australia
Scathing report on WA Liberals finds ‘unethical and underhand’ conduct in election lead-up
WA Liberal members and MPs were guilty of “unethical and underhand” conduct in the lead-up to their catastrophic state election loss, according to a scathing internal review which warns the party is “headed for the door” unless urgent changes are made.
Sustainability
The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency
Power from fusion has proved too hard to generate at scale. Can recent breakthroughs and massive investment change that?
Common pesticide may contribute to global obesity crisis
Researchers discovered that chlorpyrifos, which is banned for use on foods in Canada but widely sprayed on fruits and vegetables in many other parts of the world, slows down the burning of calories in the brown adipose tissue of mice.
Global sand and gravel extraction conflicts with half of UN Sustainable Development Goals
Sand and gravel are the most mined materials in the world, with between 32 and 50 billion tonnes extracted globally each year. They are being extracted faster than they can be replaced.
Why America needs a Department of the Future
Kim Heacox
For too long we’ve been shortsighted, mistaking our cleverness for wisdom. Now, it’s time for politics to take a longer view
The country with the most fresh water on the planet has lost 15 per cent of it
The Brazilian scientists were sceptical. They ran different models to check calculations, but they all returned the same startling result.
Seabed recovers more quickly following extreme storms than from the impacts of bottom-towed fishing
Academics have been monitoring the Lyme Bay Marine Protected area using underwater cameras and other techniques since 2008, but this is the first known study to examine an MPA’s response and resilience in the face of extreme storms
When humans disturb marine mammals, it’s hard to know the long-term impact
From seismic surveys and Navy sonar to fisheries and shipping, many human activities in the ocean environment cause short-term changes in the behaviors of marine mammals.
Consequences of the loss of threatened vertebrates
Compiled data for 50,000 vertebrates in six biogeographic realms revealed that the loss of threatened species would cause a decline of up to 30% of the functional diversity, mainly in Asia and Europe.
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