Issue date : Fri 9 April, 2021
Estimated Reading Time : 03 Min 29 Seconds
Number of items : 41
ADF will need more resources to deal with climate and regional security crises
The Strategist
Fri 9 April, 2021
The capacity of the Australian Defence Force and other key agencies must be increased urgently to enable them to deal simultaneously with climate-driven disasters at home and in the region while countering worsening security threats, food shortages and mass people movements.
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‘Disincentive’: State sabotages koala protection with rates bill
The Sydney Morning Herald
Fri 9 April, 2021
The NSW government is undermining a key platform of its koala protection policy by removing financial incentives for conservation on private properties as part of a bill to help harmonise council rates.
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Berejiklian Government's latest koala plan out of touch with reality
Independent Australia
Fri 9 April, 2021
The latest koala plan from the NSW Government has outraged conservationists and destroyed any remaining credibility, writes Sue Arnold.
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Intelligence officers predict a future shaped by faceless enemies like disease, climate change
Yahoo News
Fri 9 April, 2021
WASHINGTON — The intelligence community has published a wide-ranging report detailing its predictions about the state of the world in the next two decades.
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If Biden doubles climate ambition, where will that leave Angus Taylor?
Reneweconomy
Fri 9 April, 2021
April 22 this year is ‘Earth day’, and it’s guaranteed to be a busy time. Every climate and energy organisation on the planet will likely time their new reports and releases for that week, and rumour has it that the president of the United States, Joe Biden, will be announcing an update to its 2030 Paris climate agreement targets, at the April 22-23 climate summit hosted by the White House. Australia has an invite, and is sure to attend.
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Climate change causing energy industry’s risk transformation – WTW
Insurance Business
Fri 9 April, 2021
Climate change and the resulting energy transition are the major drivers of transformation in the energy industry risk landscape, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson.
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Grant King to overhaul the Climate Change Authority
The Australian Financial Review
Fri 9 April, 2021
Former Business Council of Australia president and energy executive Grant King, who championed the $80 billion LNG export industry in central Queensland, will overhaul the Climate Change Authority to drive Australia’s emissions reduction – only two years after the Morrison government almost scrapped the government body.
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ReneweconomyTaylor names gas industry advocates to Climate Change Authority board
The “solar tax”: Why should households be charged to generate power?
Reneweconomy
Fri 9 April, 2021
The Australian solar industry awoke with a surprise when AEMC announced a draft determination that on one hand seeks to ensure the right for solar system owners to export their energy into the grid, while at the same time, proposing charges for the right to do this.
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Climate change: Electric trucks 'can compete with diesel ones'
Yahoo News
Fri 9 April, 2021
The view that battery-powered heavy goods lorries can't compete with diesel is being challenged by new research.
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Feral horse plan advocates shooting brumbies to save Victoria's 'vulnerable' alpine region
ABC News
Fri 9 April, 2021
Parks Victoria is advocating aerial shooting to control feral horse populations, when ground shooting is not feasible, to help protect the state's fragile alpine region, a draft management plan for feral horses has revealed.
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Gorilla chest beating sounds different based on size
Cosmos
Fri 9 April, 2021
The sight of a mountain gorilla rapidly beating its chest is a captivating feature of its communication repertoire, but its purpose hasn’t been entirely clear.
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Stress test: Australian study finds herding sheep via drone better for their welfare
The Guardian
Fri 9 April, 2021
Herding sheep using dogs, motorbikes or even people is not as ovine-friendly as a drone, new research shows.
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‘Black water’: The three Australian sites that are ground zero for climate change
WAToday
Fri 9 April, 2021
In the summer of 2011, as flooding across Victoria and Queensland killed 35 people and left a $14 billion damage bill, something very different was happening on the other side of the country.
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Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world
Yahoo News
Fri 9 April, 2021
Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists warned Friday.
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How 'agromining' — farming plants that contain metal — could help power the future
ABC News
Fri 9 April, 2021
When scientist Alan Baker made a cut in the side of an exotic plant in the Philippines jungle, the sap that bled out had a jade-green glow.
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Shocking pictures show sheer scale of destruction after NSW floods
News.com.au
Fri 9 April, 2021
More than two weeks after the NSW flood disaster left a trail of destruction, new pictures reveal the true scale of devastation as the impact continues to be felt long after the water recedes.
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PerthnowThe Australian
The Herald Sun
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Year of the quiet ocean
Cosmos
Fri 9 April, 2021
Last year, as pandemic-related lockdowns enveloped the world, our oceans – just like our cities – fell more silent than they likely have been since the onset of globalisation. Now, scientists hope to study exactly how the resultant quiet has affected marine species usually besieged by the sound pollution from shipping, fishing and other anthropogenic ocean traffic.
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Prince William: Banks must do more to protect environment
Yahoo News
Fri 9 April, 2021
The Duke of Cambridge has urged banks to "invest in nature" to help fight global climate change.
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Vale Rosslyn Beeby, crusading journalist and force of nature
The Canberra Times
Fri 9 April, 2021
Rosslyn Beeby, a former environment reporter at The Canberra Times, has died, remembered by colleague and friend Gillian Lord as "a prickly, feisty person and a fine journalist who was never afraid to speak truth to power and call things as she saw them".
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Second protest at Bravus coal mine in Qld
The Newcastle Herald
Fri 9 April, 2021
Work is continuing at the Carmichael coal mine and rail project after police removed protesters trying to blockade the site in central Queensland.
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Cyclones to bring more rain further south in future, say the weather experts
ABC News
Fri 9 April, 2021
As a pack of tropical lows looms off the WA coast, the latest forecast is for the biggest, Tropical Cyclone Seroja, to continue south-west and turn towards the coast on Saturday.
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Japan eyes raising 2030 emissions target
7 News
Thu 8 April, 2021
Japan is looking to raise its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions-reduction target to at least a 40 per cent cut on fiscal 2013 levels from 26 per cent now, Kyodo news agency says, citing sources close to the matter.
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The West Australian
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Climate change worse than pandemic: UK regulator
Financial Standard
Thu 8 April, 2021
The chief executive of the UK's Pensions Regulator believes climate change will be more catastrophic to populations' way of life than the COVID-19 pandemic if no action is taken.
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ESG drives M&A, fundraising
The Australian
Thu 8 April, 2021
“ESG is becoming a core part of the strategic fit.” Companies that were seen as having good ESG ratings were now finding they could get a better deal on fundraising than those which did not
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New report maps out Australia’s impact startup ecosystem
ProBono Australia News
Thu 8 April, 2021
An analysis of more than 1,600 Australian startups that have publicly raised funds between 2015 and 2020 found about 20 per cent could be classified as impact startups, meaning revenue generated was inherently linked to creating measurable positive social or environmental impact.
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Study says bitcoin could derail China's climate change targets
Yahoo News
Thu 8 April, 2021
Bitcoin mining in China is so carbon intensive that it could threaten the country's emissions reduction targets, according to new research.
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Outcry over Galilee gas pipeline proposal
7 News
Thu 8 April, 2021
Farmers are alarmed at the prospect of a new pipeline they say could lead to further development of gas fields across central Queensland's Galilee Basin.
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PerthnowThe Newcastle Herald
The West Australian
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Australia’s largest vertical solar system on Beulah’s Melbourne CBD tower
Architecture and Design
Thu 8 April, 2021
Paragon, a mixed-use 48-level luxury residential tower in Melbourne’s CBD, will feature the largest vertical solar panel system in all of Australia to outperform other buildings with similar systems.
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Another landslip off Inskip Point occurs where cars were boarding Fraser Island barge
ABC News
Fri 9 April, 2021
In what has become a regular occurrence, a portion of a popular southern Queensland beach has collapsed into the ocean at the same location where cars had been driving onto a Fraser Island barge a short time earlier.
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Not over the hump: Caution urged on ending endangered status for whales
The Age
Thu 8 April, 2021
Conservation groups have warned the removal of humpback whales from Australia’s national threatened species lists would be “rash”, despite them making a comeback from near extinction.
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Endangered orange-bellied parrot numbers take flight
The Australian
Thu 8 April, 2021
The migration of three orange-bellied parrots across Bass Strait has excited scientists and wildlife enthusiasts who have watched the birds teeter on the edge of extinction.
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Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters. History tells us this could trigger a mass extinction event
The Conversation
Thu 8 April, 2021
The tropical water at the equator is renowned for having the richest diversity of marine life on Earth, with vibrant coral reefs and large aggregations of tunas, sea turtles, manta rays and whale sharks. The number of marine species naturally tapers off as you head towards the poles.
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Calls to end mutilation, inhumane treatment of sharks and rays in SA
ABC News
Thu 8 April, 2021
Sharks and stingrays caught off South Australian jetties are being mutilated and thrown back into the water alive, fishers and scuba divers say, prompting calls for more humane treatment of the animals.
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Reef on path to destruction and ‘clever science can’t fix it’
The Age
Thu 8 April, 2021
Australia’s foremost coral reef scientist Professor Terry Hughes says government plans to restore the Great Barrier Reef are doomed to failure because they’re too small and expensive, while the rate of catastrophic bleaching events are already recurring faster than corals can recover.
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Disturbing image reveals ‘very deadly’ threat to humans
Yahoo News
Thu 8 April, 2021
A disturbing image has revealed a toxin has been detected leaking into the air that could cause paralysis and even death.
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Barwon River flood transforms tiny border town of Mungindi after drought, COVID and fire
ABC News
Thu 8 April, 2021
For the past 12 months, Mungindi residents have had little to smile about.
The border town — split between Queensland and New South Wales — lost its only supermarket and butcher in a massive fire last September, compounding weeks of stress over COVID-19 border restrictions that cut the community off from key services.
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Chemical spill cause probed
The West Australian
Thu 8 April, 2021
A metal object may have pierced the side of a tank and caused the massive chemical spill at a South West refinery last month, a preliminary investigation has revealed.
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Carbon levels hit high despite pandemic
The Australian
Thu 8 April, 2021
Carbon dioxide levels in the northern hemisphere were on average 50 per cent higher than before the industrial revolution last month and are expected to set a new peak of 419.5 parts per million this year.
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ReneweconomyAtmospheric CO2 and methane levels soar to record highs despite pandemic
Cult Byron Bay Label Spell Now Does Online Rentals So You Can Be A Sustainable Pseudo-Hippie
Pedestrian
Thu 8 April, 2021
Byron Bay-based bohemian luxe brand Spell, which has a rabid cult following that sees new collections sell out every launch day, has blessed us all by branching out into fashion rental.
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ELLE AustraliaByron Bay Label Spell Launches Partnership With Fashion Rental Site GlamCorner
Rare clash of tropical tempests expected off WA coast ‘like two planets going close to each other’
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thu 8 April, 2021
Twin tropical cyclones are predicted to clash off the north-west coast of Australia in the coming days in a rare interaction that is exciting weather nerds far and wide.
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Map shows 'brutal' change in the 'blink of an eye'
Yahoo News
Thu 8 April, 2021
The northern hemisphere has seen a dramatic and damaging swing in temperatures with scientists warning of "horrific" consequences as a result of the wild weather rollercoaster.