From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 9 May 2024 at 8:34:10 AM GMT+9:30
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Subject: Daily Links May 9
Date: 9 May 2024 at 8:34:10 AM GMT+9:30
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links May 9
Post of the Day
Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
On This Day
Ascension Day – Western Christianity
Climate Change
Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization
Scientists reclassify Humboldt glacier, also known as La Corona, after it melted faster than expected
They are terrified but determined to keep fighting
Australia may have just shivered through the coldest April in almost 10 years, but the rest of the world continued to break heat records for the 11th month in a row.
Author Madeleine Orr highlights the irony of sports organizations supporting climate-damaging companies while athletes suffer the consequences of climate change.
Guardian editorial
Top experts believe global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. That frightening prediction must spur us to action
National
The Albanese government’s proposed mandatory climate-related financial disclosure laws may be in trouble.
The Albanese government is talking up the crucial role of gas as a transition fuel “through to 2050 and beyond”
Australian households spend more than $450 a week on private transport – and as much as $563 in one capital city – as prices in the sector continue to rise, a report shows.
Jennifer Hewett
The Albanese government has high hopes for much more downstream processing of critical minerals. But the numbers aren’t adding up. What can change that?
Australian editorial
Hidden carbon price and flawed analysis mean higher energy costs
Building Australian supply chains for the manufacture of solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps and commercial electric vehicles could deliver $215 billion of benefits in just a decade, a new report has found, provided we get the policy and regulatory settings right.
Victoria
The Albanese government will pump an extra $3.25bn into the North East Link in next week’s federal budget – the biggest single investment it has made in Victoria since being elected.
Electricity distributor Powercor has offered a mea culpa and will pay $2.1 million for failing to inspect and trim vegetation growing around its powerlines, eventually causing a bushfire.
New South Wales
Following protests in France, Australian residents are also out to stop waste-to-energy proposals for their towns as governments seek solutions to Australia’s growing rubbish-management problem.
Biodiversity continues to fall across NSW on almost every measure, with damaged and degraded landscapes less able to support life, a new report reveals.
Forecast journey times show it will take about an hour to travel on new bus services to Western Sydney Airport from nearby urban centres.
A mineral sands mining company expects to save five million litres of diesel a year by adding a solar farm and a battery storage system to its remote titanium mine site in western NSW.
ACT
Public transport users in Canberra will finally be able to pay with their credit cards and mobile phones from November, with work now underway for the new system to learn the city’s network.
Queensland
A power station in central west Queensland has received $75 million from the state government to build an additional hydrogen generator.
The Australian brook lamprey (Mordacia praecox) is part of a group of primitive jawless fish. It’s up to 15cm long, with rows of sharp teeth.
In an Australian-first, one of Queensland’s largest vegetable growers has been given the green light for a $291m project that will turn food waste into power, gas and biofertilizer.
Replacing on-street parking with bike lanes could make Brisbane more liveable without hurting small businesses, research at a popular shopping strip has found.
Opinion
“Couldn’t run a bath …” Many in Queensland have taken a similar stance after Labor’s energy bill loophole was revealed
Tasmania
It’s been touted as good for Hobart, but will be a stinker for the state budget. Here’s how much it will cost to relocate Macquarie Point’s wastewater treatment plant.
Tasmania’s environmental watchdog will be issuing an order to a Risdon Vale waste processor. Here’s what they could face if they don’t comply.
Northern Territory
Traditional owners and custodians have welcomed a High Court decision finding Parks Australia can be held criminally liable for allegedly violating a sacred site in Kakadu, saying it will set a precedent for future cases.
“It’s still all to be explored”: A Sydney GP who helped establish the Fred Hollows Foundation and has a long history with the Top End is selling an enormous slice of virgin wilderness known as Silkwood.
Western Australia
A Bill that strengthens Western Australia’s petroleum legislation and supports the Cook Government’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 has passed the Legislative Council.
The approval was granted by the Commonwealth Government’s offshore oil and gas regulator NOPSEMA and will enable LNG production at Chevron’s Gorgon project. This will result in 62 million tonnes of emissions annually, which is 16 times greater than the emissions of WA’s largest coal power station, Muja.
In coming weeks, the DBCA will start torching 200,000 hectares of the state to boost our defences in the face of increasing bushfires.
Sustainability
Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises
The use of plastic films in farming has been linked to an accumulation of phthalates – an endocrine disrupting chemical with serious health effects – in both soil and wheat, according to a new study published in Science of the Total Environment.
Despite being banned in their countries of origin, European agrochemical companies like Syngenta are legally selling restricted pesticides in Peru due to lenient local laws.
Researchers are raising concerns about the impact of ultraprocessed foods on health, linking them to obesity and disease.
Nature Conservation
As temperatures rise due to climate change, mangroves are increasingly populating the Texas coast, leading scientists to explore their effects on the region’s ecosystems.
Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from European lakes, researchers uncovered specific evolutionary strategies that shape these bacteria’s lifestyles.
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
Australian Conservation Foundation | www.acf.org.au
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