If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool - One Step Off The Grid ( onestepoffthegrid.com.au )
“Simply astounding:” Australian coal mine methane emissions may be twice offical data ( reneweconomy.com.au )
Australia’s coal mine methane emissions are being vastly underreported and are damaging the nation’s credibility on climate change, economist Professor Rod Sims has warned....
Continued logging of NSW koala habitat is ‘a profound tragedy’, conservationist says ( www.theguardian.com )
Conservatives and incumbents have predicted the end of wind and solar for decades. They are still wrong ( reneweconomy.com.au )
Lack of research on Australia's native bees could be detrimental to their survival, experts say ( www.abc.net.au )
It's what scientists don't know about native Australian bees that has them deeply concerned....
Electric garbage truck trialled in regional Australia drives 'like a limousine' ( www.abc.net.au )
Untapped rooftop solar: Australian homes could save $9.3 billion a year, UNSW study finds - One Step Off The Grid ( onestepoffthegrid.com.au )
Australian households could save $9.3 billion on energy bills each year by investing in the untapped solar potential of residential rooftops across the nation, a new report has found....
Councils from Paris to the Yarra want to use parking fees to clamp down on big SUVs. What are they doing and will they succeed? ( www.theguardian.com )
Behind the grand plans for nuclear is a potentially fatal flaw. And it's on millions of roofs ( www.abc.net.au )
Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy ( www.theguardian.com )
Coalition to impose ‘cap’ on renewable energy investment, Nationals leader says ( www.theguardian.com )
Move to protect Australian beef industry from EU land clearing laws criticised by scientists ( www.theguardian.com )
Australia's tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived—and we shouldn't be burning them ( phys.org )
Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage's Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia's forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people....
Critically endangered northern corroboree frogs spotted in Namadgi National Park for the first time in five years ( www.abc.net.au )
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/8969234...
First Nations communities solving long standing energy security problems with clean energy projects ( switchedon.reneweconomy.com.au )
Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls ( reneweconomy.com.au )
National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition....
Why the kookaburra’s iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced ( theconversation.com )
As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.
Labor unveils watered-down fuel efficiency standard that eases emission rules for large SUVs ( www.theguardian.com )
‘I don’t like to lose’: Businessman Geoff Cousins is using his wallet and contact book to end native logging in NSW ( www.smh.com.au )
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For the first time in decades, the elusive call of the ‘bunyip bird’ returns to Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands ( www.theguardian.com )
This island risks being transformed into a consumer experience for the wealthy. Should it be a wake-up call? ( www.abc.net.au )
‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds | Greenhouse gas emissions ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9550904...
Woodside Energy’s climate plan rejected by shareholders in ‘globally unprecedented’ rebuke ( www.theguardian.com )
After a decade of chaos, Labor finally pivots Australia away from dig-and-ship petrostate to post carbon world ( reneweconomy.com.au )
Finally, after a devastating decade of climate and energy transition chaos, inaction and underinvestment under the LNP luddites, we appear to have a government that appreciates Australia’s comparative advantages....
Australia announces new plan for net zero: Extract gas to 2050 and beyond ( www.sbs.com.au )
