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Nature repair bill passes after Greens agree to deal

Land owners will be paid for environmental work on their properties after laws setting up a nature repair market passed the Senate.

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15-year Loop office lease for Department of Environment, police oversight commission OK’d by committee despite backlash

Expanding existing leased space near City Hall is crucial for the reborn Department of Environment and a new civilian police oversight commission, committee members were told. But some members complained there’s vacant government-owned space in their wards.

Chicago Sun-Times

Australian homes can be made climate-ready, reducing bills and emissions – a new report shows how

Millions of homes were built before Australia introduced housing energy efficiency standards in 2003. They’re leaky. Gaps around windows, doors and between building materials allow air to move in and out. So people tend to compensate, with more heating and cooling. It’s costly and damaging for the environment.

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Thames Water investigated by regulator Ofwat over dividend payment

Regulator asks if £37.5 million payment breached embattled supplier’s licence requirements

The Independent UK

Warfare ruins the environment – and not just on the front lines

On the morning of December 6 1917, a French cargo ship called SS Mont-Blanc collided with a Norwegian vessel in the harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. The SS Mont-Blanc, which was laden with 3,000 tons of high explosives destined for the battlefields of the first world war, caught…

The Conversation

France moves to ban disposable e-cigarettes

French parliament backed a proposal to ban single-use electronic cigarettes, considered to be gateways to tobacco addiction for teenagers and harmful to the environment.

Radio France Internationale

At COP28 summit, activists and officials voice concern over Gaza's environment, devastated by war

As leaders, officials and activists descend on Dubai for United Nations climate talks to discuss saving Earth, another environmental crisis is nearby

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Campaigners launch petition to reopen 200-year-old path

Campaigners today launched an urgent petition calling on Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to reopen Edinburgh’s Radical Road path, following a…

The National (Scotland)

Is Israel’s Gaza bombing also a war on the climate?

Gaza’s water, soil and air have been devastated. And reconstruction will add to the carbon emissions.

Al Jazeera

Cop28: anger after record number of fossil fuel lobbyists given access to summit – as it happened

Coalition of climate NGOs highlights that there are more fossil fuel lobbyists than delegates from 10 most climate-vulnerable countries combined

The Guardian - UK

Labor and Greens strike deal to establish nature repair scheme

Legislation being debated in the Senate will create a market to encourage private spending on projects that protect and restore biodiversity

The Guardian - AU

France votes to ban single use e-cigarettes in crackdown to protect children

The e-cigarettes come in a range of flavours which have been attracting children while they are also bad for the environment

Evening Standard

Brickbat: Off Road, Off Limits

The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority has banned two ads for Toyota trucks, a poster and an online commercial, for showing the trucks being driven off road. The agency said the ads "presented and condoned the use of vehicles in a manner that disregarded their impact on nature and the environment."…

Reason

From subtle sparkles to red hues: what to wear to your holiday parties

Though holiday parties elicit a more refined dress code than other shindigs thrown throughout the year, the ‘spirited’ recommendation can also be too open-ended, especially factoring in the environment, Kaleigh Werner writes

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The Environment: Another Victim Of Russia's Invasion

Ravaged forests, flooded towns and dead dolphins: after nearly two years of war in Ukraine, experts say environmental damage is becoming an "enormous" tragedy that will affect generations to come.

Salon

PFAS continually found in drinking water

". . . PFAS are a problem that is not going away anytime soon"

The Guardian - UK

The Cop28 president told a shocking lie about fossil fuels – and he’s wrong about climate economics too

Sultan Al Jaber’s claim that green policies damage economic growth is wrong and highly damaging, says environmental correspondent Geoffrey Lean

The Hindu

Central Pollution Control Board estimates ₹4.8-crore environment compensation for improper disposal of demolition waste at Maradu

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has assessed an environment compensation of ₹4.8 crore for the improper management of construction and demolition waste following the controlled implosion of four high-rise buildings in Maradu on January 11, 2020.

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The Guardian - AU

Coles, Woolworths and Aldi ‘responsibly sourced’ salmon labels may be misleading, watchdog told

Environmental groups allege some of the supermarkets’ salmon is from Tasmanian farms reportedly having ‘catastrophic’ impact on ancient Maugean skate

The Conversation

Tackling climate change can improve public health in Africa – new report highlights how

African countries can simultaneously address climate change and improve public health by reducing air pollution. In many cases these actions also have other societal, economic, environment or health benefits.

The Conversation

The amazing NGV Triennial 2023 makes us question our world and forces us to see it differently

What the previous two National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Triennials have taught us is that the visitor should be prepared to be surprised, amazed and challenged. NGV Triennial 2023 does this in spades.

The Hindu

Bengaluru court orders registering criminal case against two officials for converting forest into revenue land

Court orders criminal case against Bengaluru officials for converting forest land to revenue land, following complaint by Deputy Conservator of Forest. State govt refused to grant sanction to prosecute duo, so court took cognisance & issued summons. Environment Minister warns govt officials of strict action if they help encroachment. #ForestConservationAct…

The Hindu

Residents to intensify protest against soil extraction at Mattappally

The day-night protest against the mining completed seven days on Sunday; residents fear that “indiscriminate’‘ mining would be detrimental to the environment and result in an acute drinking water shortage in the region.

The Hindu

COP28 Climate Summit | India will not be bound by curbs on energy use: Environment Secretary

At COP28, India was conspicuously absent from a list of 118 countries signed on to a pledge to triple installed renewable energy capacity by 2030

The Guardian - AU

Net zero policy for new gas projects abandoned after industry objected

Exclusive: The gas industry was the only stakeholder consulted before policy proposal was ditched by the Northern Territory government, FoI documents show

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