Issue date : Wed 27 November, 2019
Estimated Reading Time : 02 Min 38 Seconds
Number of items : 31
Minister flags water recycling expansion for Sydney as drought intensifies
The Sydney Morning Herald
Wed 27 November, 2019
Water recycling could be expanded in Sydney as the NSW government orders an urgent report into all options to boost the city’s supply amid the worsening drought.
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Greens want coal, gas companies to fund more firefighters for Queensland
The Brisbane Times
Wed 27 November, 2019
Queensland's only Greens MP wants coal and gas companies to pay for more firefighters around the state ahead of a scorching summer.
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What the US defence industry can tell us about how to fight climate change
The Conversation
Wed 27 November, 2019
Achieving the large-scale cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that will be needed will require the development and adoption of new technologies at a rate not seen since the information technology revolution.
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Climate health is a mainstream issue. Let's treat it like one
The Canberra Times
Wed 27 November, 2019
It's frightening not being able to breathe. As an asthmatic since birth, I have found managing the condition a constant challenge. Preventative medications have kept me alive, but, like millions of Australians, I occasionally get a small dose of terror when my chest tightens and my blue inhaler is empty or nowhere to be seen.
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Burwood Brickworks aims for top sustainability ranking
Inside Retail
Wed 27 November, 2019
Frasers Property Australia’s Burwood Brickworks shopping centre is set to open on Friday December 6. To mark the occasion, an official ribbon-cutting ceremony will launch three days of family fun, retailer offers and live entertainment, Shopping Centre News reports.
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Climate explained: how much does flying contribute to climate change?
The Conversation
Wed 27 November, 2019
The flight shaming movement has raised our awareness of air travel’s contribution to climate change. With all the discussion, you might be surprised to learn that air travel globally only accounts for about 3% of the warming human activities are causing. Why all the fuss?
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Climate change: Is it a choice between air travel and carbon emissions?
The Weekly Times
Wed 27 November, 2019
We love to fly, but will our enjoyment ultimately come at the expense of the next generation? Genevieve Barlow poses the question.
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How weather radar can keep tabs on the elusive magpie goose
The Conversation
Wed 27 November, 2019
You’re probably familiar with weather radar that shows bands of rain blowing in to ruin your plans for the day, or the ominous swirling pattern of a cyclone.
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Tiny brain, but great vision
Cosmos
Wed 27 November, 2019
The mantis shrimp, a marine crustacean of the order Stomatopoda, is one of the top predators in coral reefs and other shallow warm water environments.
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Lewis the koala put to sleep in hospital due to burns from bushfire
News.com.au
Wed 27 November, 2019
Despite around-the-clock care at an animal hospital, a koala whose bushfire rescue went around the world succumbed to his injuries earlier.
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PedestrianWe’re Very Sorry To Report That Lewis The Koala Has Died
The Sydney Morning Herald
'Lewis', the koala rescued from bushfires by a grandmother, has died
The Age
The Brisbane Times
WAToday
Perthnow
Rescued koala Lewis dies from Port Macquarie bushfire burns
The Guardian
'Lewis' the koala rescued from NSW bushfire dies due to extensive burns
World map rates sustainable food systems
Cosmos
Wed 27 November, 2019
Scientists have created a new global map of food system sustainability that rates each country on a sweeping series of metrics ranging from environmental impacts, health and food security to social equity and income distribution.
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‘New Bradfield’: rerouting rivers to recapture a pioneering spirit
The Conversation
Wed 27 November, 2019
The “New Bradfield” scheme is more than an attempt to transcend environmental reality. It seeks to revive a pioneering spirit and a nation-building ethos supposedly stifled by the bureaucratic inertia of modern Australia.
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Climate anxiety spikes as Canberra students gear up for school strike
The Canberra Times
Wed 27 November, 2019
Amelia Hollo remembers when she started researching global warming outside of class. It was the same time she stopped sleeping.
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NSW is ‘state of extremes’ hit with storms, snow and bushfires within days
News.com.au
Wed 27 November, 2019
Tens of thousands of Sydney homes are still without power this morning after a fast-moving storm of strong winds and hail lashed the city.
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Emissions equal to 25 million cars a year could be pumped into Bass Strait seabed
The Age
Tue 26 November, 2019
A drilling rig the size of an office tower is part of a bold Victorian project to tackle climate change.
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'Bleak' UN report says countries must slash emissions now or face climate disaster
Yahoo News
Tue 26 November, 2019
The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions, the UN said Tuesday in its annual assessment on greenhouse gases.
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SBS World News Australia'Bleak' UN report says countries must slash emissions now or face climate disaster
The Sydney Morning Herald
UN says drastic action is only way to avoid worst effects of climate change
The Age
The Brisbane Times
WAToday
The Australian
Carbon dioxide level highest in three million years, says UN
Climate change will hit women in hot spots hardest
ABC News
Tue 26 November, 2019
Climate change has a negative impact on women's ability to make meaningful decisions in their lives, according to new research looking at climate change hotspots in Africa and Asia.
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Australia's science academy attacks 'cherrypicking' of Great Barrier Reef research
The Gold Coast Bulletin
Tue 26 November, 2019
Australia’s peak scientific institution has told an inquiry into the reliability of Great Barrier Reef science that it is “greatly concerned” over a trend to cherrypick and misrepresent scientific evidence.
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'Too hot to walk in park': Labor leader wants an answer on daylight saving
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 26 November, 2019
Labor leader Jodi McKay has lobbied the NSW government to consider a request made by one of her constituents that daylight saving be shortened to help combat climate change.
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Coldplay's world tour ban raises some awkward questions
The Herald Sun
Tue 26 November, 2019
The ridicule began the moment Coldplay announced the delay of their world tour due to environmental unsustainability. But why can’t millionaires care about the planet, asks Cameron Adams.
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Taking on the global plant-based-meat market: Inside v2food’s $35 million Series A
Smart Company
Tue 26 November, 2019
Aussie meat alternative startup v2food has bagged a whopping $35 million in Series A funding, as founder and chief Nick Hazell gears up to bring Australia into the global plant-based protein race.
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Airline boss’s grim warning about climate change
News.com.au
Tue 26 November, 2019
The boss of one of the world’s largest airlines says the world has received a “wake-up call” over climate change.
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The jobs transition out of coal in Western Australia
The Fifth Estate
Tue 26 November, 2019
What’s the future for coalminers? Thanks to some deep dive work from Beyond Zero Emissions and collaboration with unions, the prospects are quite positive. Check out the Western Australian coal mining town of Collie, for instance.
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Lendlease says construction sites are “carbon neutral”, now for the concrete
Reneweconomy
Tue 26 November, 2019
Australian construction company Lendlease has announced that it has achieved carbon neutrality across all of its Australian construction sites, and will continue to seek ways to reduce embodied carbon emissions in building materials like steel and concrete.
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Koala factcheck: have the Australian bushfires put survival of the species at stake?
The Guardian
Tue 26 November, 2019
Claims that koalas are ‘functionally extinct’ after the bushfires are overstated. But there are very real threats to their future
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At as little as two beats per minute, the world's largest animal has one of the slowest heart rates
ABC News
Tue 26 November, 2019
Using a bright orange electrocardiogram machine attached with suction cups to the body of a blue whale, scientists have for the first time measured the heart rate of the world's largest creature and come away with insights about the renowned behemoth's physiology.
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Earthquake in Albania kills at least nine people injures and more than 300
ABC News
Tue 26 November, 2019
At least nine people have died and more than 300 people have been injured after the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital and surrounding region, causing several buildings to collapse and burying residents in the rubble.
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Researchers allege native logging breaches that threaten the water we drink
The Conversation
Tue 26 November, 2019
The Victorian government’s logging business is cutting native forests on steep slopes, in an apparent rule breach that threatens water supplies to Melbourne and rural communities.
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Queensland town's water supply shut off without warning
ABC News
Tue 26 November, 2019
Residents of a drought-stricken south-east Queensland town say they have been blindsided by a decision to shut down the local water supply.
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Food waste increase of $1b in 2019 reveals ongoing challenges for Australia
Inside Waste
Tue 26 November, 2019
Australians wasted a total of $10.1 billion worth of food last year, which was more than the year before, a Rabobank report has revealed.
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7 NewsCounting our mounting food waste pile
News.com.au
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Australians threw away $10 billion of food this year, and gen Z is the worst offender
Triple J Hack
Australian households significantly underestimate their food waste
Yahoo News
The household habit costing Aussies $10 billion a year
Nine people killed as storms leave 'trail of biblical destruction' in France, Greece and Italy
ABC News
Tue 26 November, 2019
Nine people have died after deadly storms and historic levels of rain drenched parts of Greece, Italy and France, leading to major floods, landslides and road destruction.