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From Clean Creatives The first combined F-list for Australia and New Zealand has revealed oily lobbying and dirty greenwashing. Clemenger/Omnicom’s GRACosway has the most fossil fuel clients (8) followed by SEC Newgate, Spring Street Advisory and WPP’s Purple, with 6 each. The most marketed fossil fuel company was Ampol, with 6 agencies in Australia and […]

– 24 September 2024 by Ed Hill Climate Action Network Australia The Albanese Government published its decision on Tuesday afternoon to approve three new large coal mining projects in NSW: Whitehaven Coal’s Narrabri thermal coal project to 2066, MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant thermal coal project to 2058, and Yancoal’s Ashton coal project to 2064. See […]

Image: The krill pellet carbon sequestered in MtC per October-April growing season is given and converted to per km2. Krill sequester less per surface area of the ocean than coastal vegetation blue carbon, but the vast area krill inhabit puts the pellet carbon sequestered in the same order of magnitude as the coastal vegetation stores, […]

High Court overturns decision approving new UK coal mine:  The High Court has overturned the December 2022 planning permission granted by former Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Levelling Up, Michael Gove, for West Cumbria Mining’ (WCM) proposed Whitehaven mine. Mr Justice Holgate ruled in favour of the appeal brought by Friends of the […]

Hosting the conference would help us overcome our colonial mentality and the fossil fuel lobby, both of which have held us back from tackling climate change. Thu 19 Sep 2024 Anna Cerneaz in The Guardian As the world grapples with the climate crisis, Australia stands at a crossroads. Our bid to co-host the UN’s climate […]

Coral reefs can reach a tipping point where small environmental changes trigger a dramatic shift from vibrant, diverse ecosystems to bleached, depleted ones. Michael J. McDonald/Wikimedia Commons How do ecosystems collapse? Our study shows evolution plays a role – and can delay a disaster Christopher Blake PhD Student, Monash University Michael J. McDonald Associate Professor of […]

A massive multi-country study suggests that simply closing the gap between the actual and perceived consensus moves the needle on climate beliefs without polarizing groups. By Sarah DeWeerdt in Anthropocene September 17, 2024 Communicating the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change – at least 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is happening and […]

Figure 6 Energy comparison between traditional convective air-conditioning systems and pure radiant cooling device (A) Schematic diagram of the experimental platform. (B) Cooling energy transport process in traditional convective cooling scenario. (C) Cooling energy transport process in pure radiant cooling scenario. (D) Energy consumption of the two systems in scenarios with different air changes per hour […]

LEARN. Familiarize yourself with the spectrum of climate solutions. Project Drawdown’s Solutions Library offers eye-opening insights into 93 science-based technologies and practices that together can halt climate change. DO. Alter your own activities to reduce your personal contribution to climate change. Check out our Get Involved page for specific suggestions. SHARE. Communicate the opportunity to […]

Image: Fig. 4. Effective policies and policy mixes. (A) On the basis of point estimates for country-specific breaks in emissions (tables S12 to S19), we compared the average effect sizes of all breaks in which a policy instrument appears individually with that of all breaks in which this policy instrument appears in a mix. For […]

Image WWF report: Figure 2: Projected installation of wind energy capacity (gigawatts) 2022-2026, Source: Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind Report 2023 The Global Wind Energy Council expects 680 GW of wind capacity to be added globally between 2023 and 2027, of which 130 GW will be offshore. This represents more than half of the […]

Image: SBS News and Climate Council The two places ‘undermining’ Australia’s efforts to cut emissions Australia is making “impressive” progress on transitioning to renewable energy — but not every state and territory is pulling their weight, according to a new report. Two parts of Australia are “undermining” national efforts to embrace renewable energy and cut […]

The Inflation Reduction Act Turns Two AUGUST 16, 2024 in Roosevelt Report How the IRA Is Shaping a Better Economy Two years ago, President Biden signed one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation in decades: the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). On the landmark law’s second birthday, Roosevelt’s Alí R. Bustamante reflects on how the […]

Landcare project gives Broken Hill inmates hope for the future while restoring Imperial Lakes environment By Oliver Brown ABC Broken Hill Topic:Prisons and Punishment Mon 29 JulMonday 29 July (see original article for images) This prisoner from the Broken Hill Correctional Facility hopes this prison term will be his last. (ABC Broken Hill: Oliver Brown) […]

Image: from Rong Xu et al. Continuous lithium extraction from brine by efficient redox-couple electrodialysis. Matter, 2024 New electricity-driven chemical process filters out lithium from brines efficiently and for less than half the cost of current techniques By Anthropocene Team August 29, 2024 A new method to extract lithium from salty brines is more efficient […]

Repairing landscapes, growing food, sequestering carbon Posted on 30 July 2024 by Peter Boyer in South Wind magazine A new assessment by eminent scientists of Australia’s degraded environment has worked out that we can restore our continent’s landscape to its pre-European state with less than a quarter of what we spend annually on our pets. […]

By Holly Tregenza Monday 29 July in ABC news (See original article for image) Sophie Parry’s sewing studio in Redfern has seen a 40 per cent increase in interest for repair and alteration classes. (ABC News: Holly Tregenza) In short: A sewing studio in Sydney has seen a 40 per cent increase in interest in their […]

Give, and thou shalt receive. Million dollar links between donors and environmental approvals by Kim Wingerei | Sep 5, 2024 | Energy & Environment, in Michael West Correlation does not always imply causation, but the link between fossil fuel companies’ multi-million political donations and projects receiving environmental approvals is no coincidence. Kim Wingerei reports. Between […]

Harnessed waste heat from cremations, sewage sludge could soon power our homes By Bianca Hall in The Age September 9, 2024 Cremating bodies is an energy-intensive process: the sheer amount of energy required to cremate an individual body can generate more than 250kW in wasted heat. But what if we could harness that excess heat, […]

Image: from article Closing the Loops on Southern Ocean Dynamics: From the Circumpolar Current to Ice Shelves and From Bottom Mixing to Surface Waves https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000781 Notes: Carbon sink – the ocean’s dense water absorbs carbon then sinks it. Ice – the Antarctic ice sheet is the largest ice mass on earth. It flows onto the […]