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5 ways climate change boosts tsunami threat, from collapsing ice shelves to sea level rise
Jane Cunneen
The enormous eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, triggered a tsunami that reached countries all around the Pacific rim, even causing a disastrous oil spill along 21 beaches in Peru.
On This Day
Feast of Our Lady of Peace – Catholicism
Climate Change
The coal man with the fate of the world in his hands
A single senator from the coal-rich, dirt poor American state of West Virginia is holding up Joe Biden’s climate agenda and potentially derailing global climate efforts.
The Maldives is being swallowed by the sea. Can it adapt?
Whether or not the Maldives can survive climate change, the country will never be the same.
Warmists promote Bruce Pascoe’s climate preaching [$]
Andrew Bolt
Bruce Pascoe is preaching fact-free white eco-fantasies of nature worship — despite the latest data about global warming.
5 ways climate change boosts tsunami threat, from collapsing ice shelves to sea level rise
Jane Cunneen
The enormous eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, triggered a tsunami that reached countries all around the Pacific rim, even causing a disastrous oil spill along 21 beaches in Peru.
National
Act now on climate change: businesses leaders
Australian business leaders are more alarmed about climate change than ever, with a report finding a big opinion shift in just eight months.
Koala genome probe to unravel genetic mysteries
Koala experts from all over Australia are involved in a genome survey that will map the genetic thumbprint of 450 koalas and build a genome map to demystify the at-risk species
Tennis Australia ends partnership with Santos after one year
The multiyear deal with the fossil fuel company had been the target of a campaign against ‘sportswashing’
Long-duration energy storage systems are writing coal’s death certificate
Alan Kohler
Australia is sprinting towards 100 per cent renewable energy, 24/7, 365 days a year, but very few are ready for it, least of all the coal industry and its subsidiary, the Morrison government.
A year on from a landmark report, nature – and law reform – is floundering
Sophie Power
This time last year, Professor Graeme Samuel released a landmark report that warned Australia’s national environmental laws were outdated, ineffective and not fit for purpose.
Hydrogen injects reality into gas-fired energy transition [$]
AFR editorial
The first shipment of liquid hydrogen from Australia shows fossil fuels have a crucial transition role to ensure the world has affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy.
Society has to create the framework in which business works — not the other way around
John Menadue
Business leaders — and the politicians that enable them — must be put on notice that they must serve society, not the other way around.
New South Wales
When it rains, it soars: Wetland birds come back from the brink
A number of endangered wetland species will see a rebound in numbers following months of rainfall, according to wildlife experts.
Queensland
Queensland’s ‘other sea change’ is altering the coastline forever
Australia’s eastern coastline continues to be hammered by tropical cyclones, rising sea levels and significant tides as islands are ripped in two. And experts predict other parts of the coast will be eaten away.
Tasmania
Bushfire on Tasmania’s west coast downgraded to advice level
Tasmania Fire Service has downgraded the fire on Mackintosh Dam Road in Tullah on Tasmania’s west coast to advice, but warns there may be increased fire activity this afternoon.
Sustainability
Is gas a green energy source? The Europeans can’t agree [$]
Brussels hopes its ‘taxonomy’ will set a global standard for what counts as a sustainable investment – but domestic energy politics have intervened.
Goodbye to plastic food packaging?
Environmental concerns are leading home cooks to embrace other methods of keeping food fresh, from brown paper bags to reusable beeswax wraps.
In Georgia, bloated costs take over a nuclear power plant and a fight looms over who pays
Ballooning cost overruns and construction delays at Georgia Power Co.’s Vogtle nuclear project threaten to cost the state’s electricity consumers billions of dollars in the decades to come, a new think tank report concludes.
Could a knowledge commons unite and anchor our fractious, drifting humanity?
George Trembath
Imagine a world where the simple quest for knowledge united humanity and gave us a chance of peaceful coexistence.
A year into the Biden Administration, environmental hope is sparse
Peter Dykstra
Back in the heady days of 1999, NBC gave activist filmmaker Michael Moore an unprecedented opportunity to take on corporate America.
Rhino horn consumers reveal why a legal trade alone won’t save rhinos
Vu Hoai Nam Dang and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen
Demand for rhino horn in Asian markets, especially Vietnam and China, has pushed the remaining rhino populations to the brink of extinction.
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