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The ‘wood wide web’ theory charmed us all – but now it’s the subject of a bitter fight among scientists | The debate about the degree to which forests and fungi communicate raises the painful question of confirmation bias
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“demonstrated that 30 km/h speed limits have led to significant reductions: 37% of road crash fatalities, 18% in emissions, 2.5dB in noise pollution and 7% in fuel consumption (on average), with very small variations of average traffic speed”
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Even Amtrak was surprised by the instant popularity of its new Chicago-Twin Cities route - The success of the new Amtrak Borealis bodes well for other regional train routes.
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As Heat, Storms Intensify, US Climate Migrants Are Going the Wrong Way - Millions of Americans are migrating to cities that are exposed to higher risk of extreme heat, flooding and hurricanes. We need a plan to turn them around, now.
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A common good: In the age of the individual, are we losing our understanding of the collective and our sense of shared humanity? | The Monthly
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Costs in conservation: Common costly mistakes and how to avoid them
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After the inhuman destruction of Gaza's health system, looks like bombing hospitals is bad again
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China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts
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Climate change could make fungi more dangerous
Higher temperatures may trigger mutations that cause more aggressive growth or drug resistance
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Protesting stuff is your democratic right – or is it? | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian
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The Climate Is Falling Apart. Prepare for the Push Alerts.
In our era of extreme weather, this is how we’ll watch the world change.
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Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’
Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them
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Adaptation to climate change will be an absolute nightmare
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Can we air condition our way out of extreme heat?
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Liberal senator, Tasmanian salmon farming lobby call for defunding of Environmental Defenders Office - ABC News
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Australia exposed as one of world's worst climate wreckers in key UN-backed report | RenewEconomy
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Locals 'horrified' as great browning spreads through forests thought to be 'invulnerable'
It wasn't until the sunlight changed that a local man spotted a 'great browning' parching trees on a nearby hillside. Now he sees it everywhere.
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The unwritten rules of multiculturalism as explained by an older white man | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian
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“The minimum level of public transport service required to get people out of cars runs every 15 minutes between 7am-7pm and within 800 metres of our homes”
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Stuck in traffic: 7 million Aussies missing out on public transport
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Next stop suburbia: making shared transport work for everyone in aussie cities | Climate Council
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Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential - The Lancet
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Why Finland and others are vaccinating people against bird flu
The virus is spreading undetected in mammals
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Out of bounds: how much does greenwashing cost fossil-fuel sponsors of Australian sport?
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Northvolt: the battery company seeking to make batteries with salt
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Dead owls are piling up in my freezer: Perth scientists take a stand.
Pesticides killing australian native wildlife: ban on rat baits
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Send your pets to work! And other cost of living hacks you can use every day
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In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
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The alarming disease wreaking havoc in Australia - and you've probably never heard of it before
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Vivid midwinter sunset tonight
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Rising risks of climate disasters mean some communities will need to move – we need a national conversation about relocation now
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A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds
Federal review sparks fresh warnings that biodiversity scheme is increasing risk of animals going extinct
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Australian, New Zealand property markets face creeping climate risks | Reuters
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Ethical super savings found invested in controversial weapons manufacturers
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BoM staff redirected to work for fossil fuel companies. The Bureau of Meteorology is facing internal dissent after it seconded forecasters from its overstretched aviation unit to provide contract services to mining companies.
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Santos uses new tactic to fight climate change movement after traditional owners lose court challenge against Barossa gas project. Experts say the new strategies could stymie all public interest lawsuits, which led to the Mabo and Franklin Dam determinations www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
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Beware the criminalisation of environmental protest in Australia.
Anti-protest laws of Tasmania and other Australian states should worry all who care about the environment and freedom of expression.
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The growing carbon debt -
Why the climate change is different from other environmental challenges
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Need a new outfit? Try the library.
Serving looks along with books: For 6 weeks last winter, Dover Public Library offered the city an alternative to fast fashion by lending clothes.
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US summer heat: Forecast says hot weather is here to stay | “Summers like the one we are experiencing now and the summer we had last year – which was the hottest on record – are going to become par for the course in the years ahead,”
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Belching livestock to incur green levy in Denmark from 2030
World’s first emissions tax on agriculture will require farmers to pay for greenhouse gas pollution from livestock
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Here’s one from a few months ago from the garden
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“All these disasters are like a cultural climate change price signal,” he [David Bowman, Tasmania] said. “Sure, we can be stubborn and press on regardless of a changing climate — but, in the end, the climate will win.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/w...
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Guest post: The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ in the retreat of Earth’s ice sheets - Carbon Brief
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The Insurance Apocalypse Conversation America Won't Have.
A predictable disaster unfolds apace.
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The U.S. is nowhere near ready for climate change
Despite recent investments in adaptation, the U.S. remains woefully unprepared for the coming extreme storms and floods.
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‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events
Analysis of high-resolution drone imagery concludes 97% of corals died at a Lizard Island reef between March and June this year
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New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet - British Antarctic Survey
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