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Time to ditch the pump? Find out what the parties are offering around electric vehicles
Soaring petrol prices across Australia have sparked fuel security concerns. But it has also sparked hope in Australians — hope that their future government will invest in a transport system that isn’t reliant on oil, but electricity. Here, we break down what the major parties are offering around electric vehicles.
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Buddha’s Birthday – East Asia
Ecological Observation
Climate Change
Emissions tied to the international trade of agricultural goods are rising
Scientists have conducted a thorough examination of international trade in agricultural goods, finding that consumers in wealthy countries enjoy the produce while people in less-developed nations endure heightened greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation.
World’s ocean is losing its ‘memory’ under global warming
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study found that most of the world’s ocean is steadily losing its year-to-year memory under global warming.
National
Time to ditch the pump? Find out what the parties are offering around electric vehicles
Soaring petrol prices across Australia have sparked fuel security concerns. But it has also sparked hope in Australians — hope that their future government will invest in a transport system that isn’t reliant on oil, but electricity. Here, we break down what the major parties are offering around electric vehicles.
Kangaroo trade in the balance as international buyers receive mixed messages
As animal activists pressure overseas markets to ban kangaroo imports over what they say are inhumane and unsustainable practices, the roo industry is launching its own campaign to try and sell its sustainability and welfare credentials.
Say goodbye to chardonnay: Global warming changing the wines Australia can make
A decade from now, the selection of wines on the shelves of your local bottle shop will look a little different.
Female ‘teal’ independents are stepping up for change — and conservatives seem spooked
Yasmin Poole
Dozens of independent candidates in this election are demonstrating that women are not passive actors but forces of change in our democracy
New South Wales
Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world, but proposed feral-free zones in NSW national parks may help some species survive.
Endangered oak’s secret home beneath a NSW volcano its only hope of survival
Tucked away on the southern side of an ancient volcano in northern NSW is a unique rainforest that will house 20 rare seedlings of a tree, but whether they will survive is in the hands of scientists.
Queensland
‘Huge milestone’ for traditional owners celebrating largest sea country agreement on Great Barrier Reef
The Darumbal people will manage more than 36,000 square kilometres of sea country off the central Queensland coast, using methods based on cultural lore and science.
Tasmania
Greg Pullen
An article in the Sunday Tasmanian (April 10) entitled ‘Wind farm design tweak’ informed readers that Epuron hopes to have its development application for the St Patricks Plains wind farm proposal before the Central Highlands Council around July.
Western Australia
Numbat stripes reveal endangered population is twice as big as we thought
A UWA PhD student has developed a survey technique indicating the state’s endangered numbat population is twice as big as previously thought. But remaining habitats do not have the same protection levels, prompting a community call to boost national park coverage.
Souped-up e-scooters involved in daily crashes [$]
Worrying new data reveals paramedics are attending 14 crashes per week involving e-scooters, as concerning reports show riders are jail-breaking their eRideables and programming them to go faster.
Sustainability
European farmland could be biggest global reservoir of microplastics, study suggests
Up to 42,000 tons of microplastics are applied across European agricultural soils each year as a result of sewage sludge fertilizer.
Operating rooms are the climate change contributor no one’s talking about
The health care industry accounts for about 8.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and surgery is one of hospitals’ biggest culprits in this space. Two surgeons-in-training give some solutions to combat this problem.
Nature Conservation
The small island near Australia promising to be the new Great Barrier Reef mixed with Bali
Fringing a remote East Timorese island, this reef is the most biodiverse in the world and holding up against climate change. What are its secrets? And can it be protected as the former war-torn state opens up to tourism?
The forest as a shelter for insects in warmer climates?
Insect diversity is declining in Bavaria. Land use is a major driver, but the impact of climate change is still unknown. A study has now investigated in more detail how both factors interact in driving insect diversity and what can be done to conserve it.
Saving the Mekong delta from ‘drowning’
Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among countries in the region to lessen the impact of upstream dams and better manage water and sediments within the delta, according to an international team of researchers who outline solutions to the region’s dramatic loss of sediment essential to nourishing delta land.
Biologists examine low-cost ways to improve urban streams
University of Cincinnati biologists are examining whether water quality and wildlife habitat can be improved simply by adding a touch more of Mother Nature. With a team of volunteers, they placed fallen logs and branches in select parts of the upper Cooper Creek, a stream in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash that drains downstream into the larger Mill Creek and Ohio River. The addition of fallen timber could help slow periodic floodwaters, create more standing pools for fish during droughts and reduce nutrients that could make its way downstream, researchers said.
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