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At least 108 killed after landslides hit India’s Kerala

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says 128 injured people receiving treatment in hospital.

Al Jazeera

Coral restoration is a speculative, feel-good science that won’t save our reefs

Climate change has killed billions of corals and fundamentally changed coral reefs. The response, especially in Australia, has been to fix the symptoms, not address the cause – climate change for which humans are responsible.

The Conversation

Our beef with ‘Big Meat’: the power perpetuating Australia’s live export trade is at play elsewhere

Australia was once the world’s largest exporter of live animals. But exports have declined in recent years.

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Pylons can be pretty if you use your imagination

Letters: Powering homes | Cash over card | Repurposing Bibby Stockholm | An inquiry into inquiries

The Guardian - UK

Paris 2024 Olympics: is open-water swimming in the Seine safe?

Open-water swimming events at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris could be scuppered by the Seine river, where bathing has been prohibited since 1923.

The Conversation

As record heat risks bleaching 73% of the world’s coral reefs, scientists ask ‘what do we do now?’

A vast array of solutions are being worked on but experts urge a ‘fundamental rethink’ as temperatures are forecast to climb even higher in coming decades

The Guardian - AU

One garden, one year and one woman’s mission to make space for urban wildlife

UK gardens cover a total area of 4,000 square kilometres – that’s a quarter of the size of Wales – and comprise an estimated 24-36% of the area of UK cities. Rapid global urbanisation is threatening biodiversity, yet Kate Bradbury’s latest book, One Garden Against the World: In Search of…

The Conversation

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How ‘world’s first oil town’ is wrestling with fossil fuel legacy

Cop29 host Baku has cleaned up since its Black City days – but this summit needs to do more than whitewash the facade of a petrostate

The Guardian - UK

Costly climate ‘solutions’ look like more pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

Corporations and politicians are pushing carbon capture despite big questions over its value as residents in the southern ‘petrostate’ fear the worst

The Guardian - US

‘Warning sign to us all’ as UK butterfly numbers hit record low

Conservation charity raises alarm over climate crisis after wet spring and summer dampen mating chances

The Guardian - UK

Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

Marking a pivotal moment for the fate of the barely known ecosystems on the ocean floor, 168 nations will decide this week who will head the International Seabed Authority

The Guardian - UK

Manila is reeling after a super typhoon. We must prepare fast-growing megacities for worsening disasters

Last week, a strong typhoon left a trail of destruction across the Philippines, Taiwan and China. Super Typhoon Gaemi began as a tropical storm but intensified rapidly, leaving at least 65 people dead and triggering environmental fears after it sank an oil tanker in Manila Bay.

The Conversation

Labour must speed up wind power expansion or miss targets, says renewables industry

Green energy executives say plans for new power projects need to be more ambitious to achieve net zero grid by 2030

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Nature red in tooth and – quite literally – claw

River Culm, Devon: I joined a search for white-clawed crayfish, whose disastrous decline has taken place out of sight, but not out of mind

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We compared land transport options for getting to net zero. Hands down, electric rail is the best

Transport emissions have grown in line with the population and economy. Without intervention, the Australian government expects transport to be the largest emissions source by 2030. So, cutting transport emissions is a crucial, but challenging, element of the net-zero strategy.

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New report details the absolute shit show of dealing with redundant fossil fuel rigs

The same day Labor approved a new offshore gas exploration, it dropped a report detailing the looming nightmare of decommissioning redundant offshore fossil fuel rigs.

The Guardian - UK

Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced

Hailing the success of carrier bag laws, the Marine Conservation Society urges nations to push forward with plans for other single-use items

The Conversation

Want to buy an electric car but unsure you can justify it? Here’s how the arguments against EVs stack up

So you’re thinking of buying an electric car. Perhaps you want to save money on fuel, or reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, or both. After all, for Australia to reach net zero it needs to electrify vehicles (and expand public transport use).

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Some condom and lubricant brands contain alarming levels of PFAS – study

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ linked to low birth weight, reduced sperm counts and infertility

Al Jazeera

Horror, grief, trauma in Ethiopia’s Gofa a week after deadly landslides

Locals searching for the missing dig through mud by hand after more than 257 people were killed in the disaster.

Al Jazeera

California blaze multiplies in size, forces thousands to evacuate

Speed of growth of California Park Fire prompts grim comparison’s with 2018 deadly Camp Fire, with ‘firenados’ spotted.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s north-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

Woodside’s designs on the country’s largest untapped gas basin around Scott Reef are, some say, just another example of fossil fuel companies getting their way in what has become a petrostate

Al Jazeera

Philippines coastguard says oil leaking from capsized tanker

Operation to siphon some of the 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil from MT Terra Nova due to start on Sunday.

The Conversation

How collaboration from across Canada, and the world, is helping fight the Alberta wildfires

Hundreds of firefighters from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Africa are being deployed to western Canada to help fight wildfires while a major fire has damaged a third of the structures in the picturesque town of Jasper.

Al Jazeera

Rains help firefighters battle blazes in Canada’s Jasper National Park

Town council of Jasper says about 32 percent of structures in the town had been destroyed in the wildfire.

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