Date: 9 July 2023 at 8:04:53 am AEST
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Subject: Daily Links Jul 9
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Doom-and-gloom climate news may scare but also encourage audiences
Researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address it.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Arbor Day – Cambodia
Climate Change
US puts climate change at centre of China talks
The US and China, as the world’s two largest economies, must work together to combat the “existential threat” of climate change, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told Chinese government officials and climate experts.
The planet is sending us a ‘worrying sign’. Should we be bracing for a new normal?
Hottest day temperature records were broken three times this week, according to analysis. Here’s what climate experts say could come next.
Shrinking Arctic glaciers are unearthing a new source of methane
As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, finds new research.
A new study identifies how to calculate the economic value of temporarily reducing carbon emissions through carbon offsetting.
Climate crisis is ‘out of control’, says UN after world’s hottest week – video
The UN secretary general has said that ‘climate change is out of control’, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.
Art that integrates data visualizations can help bridge the US political divide over climate change
Researchers have shown that combining climate data with visually engrossing art can make data more meaningful to viewers and bridge political divides related to climate science.
Victoria
Victorian dams are full. Towns hit by flooding are again on edge
Water storages across the state are brimming despite expectations of a drier and warmer winter. Flooded areas fear another disaster.
New South Wales
Monkey business: The lovestruck lemurs that might save a species
Call it animal magnetism. He was a boy living in New Zealand. She was a girl from Adelaide. Shipped to western Sydney, it was lemur love at first sight.
Part of Blue Mountains to be next spot to reclaim Indigenous name as trend picks up
A recent report claimed Brisbane would be officially renamed Meanjin to honour the Turrbal people, but it proved to be false.
Queensland
Queensland native forestry can help achieve global environment goals
Research has revealed that Queensland native forestry, including timber harvesting, could actually help conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate risks.
Tasmania
Cataract Gorge trail closed due to landslip [$]
A popular Cataract Gorge walk is closed for the duration of the weekend after a privately-owned retaining wall gave out.
Scientists show years of research in controversial Storm Bay [$]
Storm Bay, full of sea life and besieged by treacherous conditions, has become the centre of controversy amid plans to further expand salmon farming. But scientists say no decisions will be made without their years of research.
Northern Territory
Bulldozers stopped at Lee Point after cultural heritage injunction
Land clearing has paused at a controversial housing development in Darwin after 11 people were arrested and an emergency injunction was sought.
Western Australia
Twenty years after Save Ningaloo, WA’s next cultural reckoning is here
Paul Gamblin
As we face our moment of no return as a planet, much of our effort must also focus on what’s happening in our own backyard.
Sustainability
Going broke and sinking, Nauru wants to mine the ocean floor
Nauru wants a shot at collecting the rare minerals the world needs to transition to net-zero emissions. But critics say deep sea mining will also harm the environment.
Japan sits on top of a huge reserve of clean, cheap power. Some call it ‘devil energy’
There’s nothing quite like soaking in one of Japan’s natural hot springs. But resort owners are refusing to share the geothermal energy reserves that could transform this resource-poor nation.
Public support hydrogen and biofuels to decarbonize global shipping
New research into public attitudes towards alternative shipping fuels shows public backing for biofuel and hydrogen. The study also found that nuclear was preferred to the heavy fuel oil (HFO) currently used in the global shipping industry, although both were perceived negatively. Ammonia had the least public support.
Climate-friendly air conditioning inspired by termites
The climate control used by termites in their mounds could inspire tomorrow’s climate-smart buildings. New research shows that future buildings inspired by the termites could achieve the same effect as traditional climate control, but with greater energy efficiency and without its carbon dioxide footprint.
Potent greenhouse gas produced by industry could be readily abated with existing technologies
Affordable and available technologies can curb rising nitrous oxide emissions
Cargo ships now have a net-zero goal — but critics say it’s not enough
The U.N.’s IMO set new climate goals for the dirty ships that power the global economy. But they don’t align with the 1.5-degree pathway some nations pushed for.
The future of recycling could one day mean dissolving plastic with electricity
Every year, consumers in the United States produce millions of tons of plastic waste, and most of it winds up in landfills. New research from chemists takes a first step toward making all that trash vanish.
Climate-neutral air travel: Is it possible?
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have performed calculations to work out how air traffic could become climate-neutral by 2050
From bad to worse: How micro- and meso-plastics collect heavy metals
A team led by researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University studied how microplastics in the environment accumulate heavy metals.
Offshore floating wind farms, environmental benefits throughout the life cycle
A research paper by Politecnico di Milano in the international journal Sustainable Production and Consumption analyses a floating wind farm off the coast of Sicily
Climate change gets worse daily
Peter Sainsbury
Torres Strait Islanders and the people of Vanuatu pursue legal action to force inept governments to stop climate change. The Great Barrier Reef is at severe risk of disappearing as a result of climate change, which is also causing Earth to wobble on its axis.
Why vertical farming just doesn’t work
Michael Grunwald
Vertical farms save water, prevent pesticide pollution and avoid extreme weather — but their Achilles’ heel is their massive electricity use.
The environmental impacts of war
Tara D Sonenshine
War is hazardous to your health.
Climate change is making our water/energy conundrum much more complicated
Philippe Benoit and Anne-Sophie Corbeau
The Colorado River Basin has recently been wracked by an extended drought, which brought to the fore major concerns regarding hydroelectricity production.
Nature Conservation
Driven out by decades of conflict, native giraffes make a return to Angola
In a ‘message of hope’ the animals have been brought in from Namibia to establish a group in their historical homeland
Researchers offer a tropical perspective on marine conservation
Key to ocean conservation may lie with the tropical majority
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