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From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 5 November 2024 at 8:46:39 AM GMT+11
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Subject: Daily Links Nov 5
Date: 5 November 2024 at 8:46:39 AM GMT+11
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Nov 5
Post of the Day
Jan Kreibich and Richard Kingsford
The largest wetland on Australia’s second longest river, the Murrumbidgee in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, is drying up. This is bad news for the plants, animals and people who rely on the vast Lowbidgee Floodplain. So it’s important to understand what is going on, and whether we can do anything about it.
On This Day
Climate Change
With climate-conscious voters already turning out in higher numbers than in 2020, grassroots groups are intensifying efforts to mobilize these voters in crucial swing states.
China is pushing back against calls from the U.S. and other nations to set stronger emissions targets and increase aid for climate impacts ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
Previous models could overestimate CO2 emissions from inland waters by as much as 25%
Populist groups capitalising on costly environmental policies that affect farmers by offering them support
Peter Boyer
As another tumultuous US presidential campaign reaches its climax, at least as traumatic and certainly more consequential than last time, something vastly bigger threatens to derail all the plans of mere candidates in a mere election.
National
The 50th wind turbine has been installed at Twiggy Forrest’s central Queensland wind farm. But there are concerns that projects like it planned along the Great Dividing Range could destroy the ecosystems they’re meant to protect.
As Australia, along with the rest of the world, accelerates its transition to renewable energy, a new energy landscape is emerging.
Snowy Hydro annual earnings double, helped by its ability to cash in on extreme pricing events such as those triggered by grid outages, and from higher power bills to consumers.
Breaking even on solar, storage and two Teslas in under nine years – SwitchedOn podcast
Rosemary Grundy is on a mission to demonstrate that going renewable and electric is not only good for the climate, but makes financial sense.
Emma Young
We’d looked forward to this spectacular trip so much, and yet at the start I could not quieten the sense of wrongness that had been troubling me for so long.
Victoria
Residents in Melbourne’s south-east are calling for better signage to discourage people from feeding feral birds.
New South Wales
Tony Abbott
Sydney has become a more liveable city over the last decade and now the challenge is preventing doomerism from taking over and the population outrunning infrastructure.
SMH editorial
Sydney must be careful not to lose the benefit of the places we try to protect.
Queensland
Queensland’s new LNP government has accused the former Labor administration of lying to the community about the cost and viability of a huge pumped hydro scheme, branding it a “con job” and “hoax”.
Australian editorial
Given the pumped hydro experience, how sure can taxpayers be that proper due diligence is being undertaken on planning for these new programs.
South Australia
Years of community protesting hasn’t stopped SA’s planning minister granting final approval to allow the company behind a rocket launching project to continue with its space exploration mission.
Tasmania
A Hobart junior doctor is heading to the UK to study public and planetary health after winning a prestigious scholarship. She says climate change will affect everyone – including Tasmanians.
Macquarie Harbour salmon farm workers on Tasmania’s West Coast have been declared heroes after they helped guide more than 30 whales to safety.
Western Australia
Chris Henggeler is the only grazier in Australia using feral donkeys to regenerate his remote property. Now he’s on the wrong side of the law.
Facing the threat of extinction because of fire and foxes, WA’s population of wiliji wallabies look to Indigenous rangers for salvation
Sustainability
As pesticide companies like Bayer and Corteva fight to curb legal damages from lawsuits involving products like Roundup, they have increasingly funneled political action committee (PAC) money to state legislators across the U.S.
Despite decades of regulation, low-level lead exposure continues to harm children’s cognitive abilities globally and is linked to millions of cardiovascular-related deaths each year.
Deputy environment minister calls for urgent action as Riyadh prepares for global summit on issue next month
Nature Conservation
After two weeks of intense negotiation, the U.N. biodiversity summit in Cali reached a historic decision, establishing a new body to include Indigenous groups in decisions on nature conservation.
An international team has now investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain Forest.
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