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Date: 14 May 2023 at 8:13:36 am AEST
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Subject: Daily Links May 14
Post of the Day
Once trusted faces on the news, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or even fixing the weather.
On This Day
Feast of Saint Tamar – Georgia
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
Youth-led climate lawsuit challenging Montana’s pro-fossil fuel policies heads to trial
A US judge says a climate change lawsuit from young people challenging Montana’s pro-fossil fuel policies will proceed to trial despite efforts by the state to derail the case.
Svalbard: the Arctic islands where we can see the future of global heating
The Norwegian archipelago is warming four times faster than the global average, with potentially disastrous results, especially for species such as the polar bear
National
Volunteers needed to save endangered bogong moth
The bogong moth might not be Australia’s most beloved critter, but researchers hope to make it as cherished as the cuddliest marsupial – and in the process, to bring it back from the brink.
What is hydrogen and how is it key to Australia’s green future? – video
The government’s Budget allocated $2 billion to accelerate the green hydrogen industry. Scientists say it is the key to Australia’s green future and will become pivotal to the export economy. But what is hydrogen, and how can the country transition from barely using it to becoming a superpower?
What’s happened to Albanese’s infrastructure agenda?
Anthony Galloway
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a self-confessed infrastructure nerd, but the times haven’t suited a big spending agenda.
Will Dutton bet on nuclear energy? [$]
James Campbell
Does the Coalition really think it will win the next election if it is a referendum on nuclear energy or sports betting advertising?
Why Chalmers should be thankful for coal [$]
Piers Akerman
Labor may drag us all down to rock bottom before it realises the economic damage of its wicked ways.
Victoria
Last year, this block was underwater. Now a developer wants to build homes on it
The planning battle in Echuca has pitted residents and the local water authority against the council and a developer, who say 16 townhouses could be built on a block of land that flooded last year.
It’s not 1955, fix Melbourne’s transport system
Letters
Age readers react to the state of Melbourne’s transport system
New South Wales
Platypus to return to Royal National Park for first time in 50 years
A beloved, webbed-foot native Australian animal has returned to one location for the first time in nearly half a century.
ACT
Fake views: calls grow to ban artificial turf in new suburbs [$]
When Jo Gheevarghese moved his family to the house they’d built in the Molonglo Valley, laying artificial turf in the front and back yards was an easy decision
Dump site DA amended to include removal of trees [$]
The owner of a Canberra asphalting business who has received approval to dump 63,000 tonnes of material on their Wallaroo property is now seeking an amendment to the development application to allow for the removal of 24 trees.
Tasmania
Rally set to slam Hobart’s $715m ‘giant bedpan’
Hundreds of Tasmanians will rally to stop the stadium critical to the state’s entry to the AFL as the depleted Rockliff government is accused of arrogantly dismissing community concerns.
Northern Territory
‘An assault on the environment’: Calls for water plan to be scrapped [$]
The Central Land Council and a peak environmental body are calling for a draft water allocation plan to be scrapped, accusing the NT government of not properly consulting Traditional Owners.
Funding boost for wildfire prevention, gamba grass [$]
The NT government has commited an extra $12.5m to its aerial firefighting program as well as $2.1m for the Gamba Army.
Western Australia
Fears for fish stocks in Shark Bay’s World Heritage marine ecosystem
Residents of a popular fishing town in Western Australia say a government move to protect fish stocks in southern areas has left their unique marine ecosystem vulnerable.
World’s biggest steel maker eyes new green plant in WA
During talks with Trade Minister Don Farrell in Beijing, company chairman Chen Dorong said the availability of clean energy and ore made Western Australia ideal as a site for the new facility.
Sustainability
Why do smoke alarms contain radioactive material? [$]
Most smoke alarms contain a tiny amount of radioactive Americium-241 in an ionisation chamber
Environment: Emissions, climate change and disasters got markedly worse in 2022
Peter Sainsbury
Greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase in 2022, as did the effects on Earth’s climate and the consequences for humans. Pet trading within Australia needs to be more strictly monitored and regulated.
Nature Conservation
‘Legendary’ lion Loonkito, one of the world’s oldest, speared by herders in Kenya
A Kenyan lion believed to have been the world’s oldest in the wild has died after being speared by herders when he reportedly strayed into a livestock pen.
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