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Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world
As the planet warms, these five drought-tolerant and highly nutritious crops offer hope for greater resiliency
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Climate Change
‘Off the charts’: Glaciers in Europe experience extreme melt
Punishing summer heat waves triggered the melt, but its rapid nature was due to processes that began months ago.
Banking on clean energy instead of climate chaos
Ivan Frishberg
As the new IRA law is enacted, a new climate pathway is needed that leads with action and tough choices from the government and private sector, rather than feel-good talking points.
National
For half an hour on Friday, Australia was running on more solar power than coal
Solar energy eclipsed coal as the lead source of power across the national energy market at lunchtime on Friday, something experts say will become more common.
Teed off: golf courses fighting to retain their turf in Australian cities
Given urban density and climate change, the battle for public land is just beginning
With the Left in charge, get ready for soaring energy prices [$]
Peter Gleeson
Australia’s conservatives are so bereft of ideas and talent that they allow modern-day Trotskyites such as Anthony Albanese and Daniel Andrews to impose their regressive policies.
Victoria
The first stage of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop should be completed even if the rest of the project is eventually scrapped, the state government says.
Railing against rail loop put Matthew Guy back on track – but there’s a long way to go
With 14 weeks until the Victorian state election, the opposition has a mountain to climb in order to form government
Save the Great Ocean Road, or protect the beach?
Serious erosion along the Great Ocean Road is forcing authorities and locals to choose between protecting the iconic road at all costs, or saving the beach.
Airport Link added stations In northwest [$]
The $10 billion Melbourne Airport Rail link looks set to get an extra station added to its route, servicing tens of thousands of people in the city’s northwest.
New South Wales
Chlamydia vaccine trial for koalas in south
A chlamydia vaccine for koalas could increase the species’ resistance to the potentially fatal disease in a trial in south-west Sydney, which is part of an almost $1.7 million NSW Koala Strategy investment across the region.
How a fake reef under the Opera House brought back an endangered seahorse
Sydney Harbour will be once more teeming with life thanks to living seawalls scientists hope will bring more penguins, seals, seahorses and turtles to the waterway.
Coal, oil and gas ads could soon be banned from hundreds of Sydney buildings
The City of Sydney will consider becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to ban fossil fuel advertising on council-run properties and infrastructure, citing health and environmental reasons.
Cool bus shelters, self-cleaning toilets: What to expect from Sydney’s latest refresh
Supply chain issues, worker shortages and a not-so-healthy bout of rain have prevented the revamp of the city. But the rollout is now almost complete.
Are new high-rises and a station enough to bring life to North Sydney?
North Sydney is set to be transformed by billions of dollars of office and residential tower projects, but critics question whether the building boom will revive a CBD still suffering from the COVID-19 crisis and years of bad planning.
Queensland
Best ideas sought for sustainable Queensland biz, communities and jobs
Queensland’s innovators and entrepreneurs are being encouraged to pitch their best solutions to help businesses and communities reduce emissions, transition to renewable energy and support good jobs.
Tasmania
From pest to quest: how the Tasmanian tiger captured the imagination
Today the possible re-creation of the thylacine generates worldwide headlines. By contrast the last thylacine’s death did not generate any headlines at all
Preloved market helping to reduce landfill waste
Hundreds of eager shoppers were waiting at the doors of St Ailbes Hall on Saturday, hoping to grab a bargain at the Behind Closed Drawers preloved market.
Dossier on Cooke Aquaculture by Pulitzer-prizewinning journalists
Media release – Neighbours of Fish Farming
This week we’ve heard Tassal is recommending Canadian company Cooke Aquaculture’s take-over bid be accepted by shareholders. It will mean all of Tasmania’s salmon producers are foreign-owned.
First Dog on the Moon
Not on my watch!
Sustainability
Prince William’s environmental charity invests with one of the biggest backers of fossil fuels
The Royal Foundation invests with a bank that is one of the word’s largest backers of fossil fuels and places more than half its investments in a fund that owns shares in large food companies that buy palm oil from firms linked to deforestation.
Russia agrees to allow investigators to inspect Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
There are signs an independent inspection of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant could occur early next month, after Vladimir Putin reportedly agreed a visit should take place. It comes as the six month mark of the Russian invasion approaches, with no end in sight.
Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world
As the planet warms, these five drought-tolerant and highly nutritious crops offer hope for greater resiliency
Compost to computer: Bio-based materials used to salvage rare earth elements
What do corncobs and tomato peels have to do with electronics? They both can be used to salvage valuable rare earth elements, like neodymium, from electronic waste. Researchers used micro- and nanoparticles created from the organic materials to capture rare earth elements from aqueous solutions.
Nature Conservation
UN seeks plan to beat plastic nurdles, the tiny scourges of the oceans
Billions of the pellets end up in the sea, killing turtles, whales and dolphins, and are washed up on beaches around the world
Which animals can best withstand climate change?
A new study investigates how different mammals react to climate change. Animals that live for a long time and/or produce less offspring — like bears and bison — are more resilient than small animals with a short life — like mice and lemmings.
The Guardian view on de-extinction: Jurassic Park may be becoming reality
Guardian editorial
We should be keeping endangered species alive rather than bringing animals back from extinction
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