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The world's largest commercial passenger airliner has completed a test flight powered entirely by SAF -- sustainable aviation fuel, composed mainly of cooking oil — an achievement that could help pave the way for greener flying.
The Conversation
Bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption is more than three times New Zealand’s – those hidden environmental costs must be part of any future regulation.
www.ips-journal.eu
Carbon taxes disproportionally hit the poor — both in the Global North and South. Instead, climate policies should tackle the consumption of the rich
the Guardian
While there are plans to expand airports, railways have been dismantled – so how will the country decarbonise domestic travel?
The most recent survey of glacier health shows there has been a further loss of snow and ice.
Newsroom
For the first time in years, landowners in Otago not doing their bit for rabbit control are being hit with non-compliance notices.
The Conversation
As climate change pressures intensify, ecosystems may lose their ability to bounce back from disasters.
the Guardian
Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs
Greenpeace International
The IPCC is currently working on finalising the next part of their Sixth Assessment. Set for publication on 4 April, the upcoming report will focus on mitigation: the ways to stop further warming.
www.bbc.com
Back in the 1990s, the hole in the planet's ozone layer was a pressing global crisis – if we had ignored it, today there would be several.
Newsroom
Does it matter that water from a community scheme washes dairy sheds? Yes, it turns out. @ddub_news reports
The Conversation
Australia’s forests have controlled their own own flammability since Gondwana. We must respect this natural process.
the Guardian
Poorest states should be given until 2050, says research aiming to set out fair way of ending fossil fuel economy
Newsroom
On World Water Day, Lokesh Padhye examines our most urgent freshwater issues, highlighting that groundwater pollution can take decades or even centuries to recover from.
AP NEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the government to address climate change.
the Guardian
Antarctic areas reach 40C above normal at same time as north pole regions hit 30C above usual levels
Newsroom
The Government has done next-to-nothing on energy strategy so far; it is relegating the people who really know and care to giving it advice that it might or might not take. We need better.
Greenpeace International
With the costs and efficiency of renewable energy solutions improving year on year, and the effects of our rapidly changing climate accelerating across the globe, we need to take an honest look at some of the myths being perpetuated by the nuclear industry and its supporters. Here are five reasons why nuclear power is not the way to a green and peaceful zero carbon future.
RNZ
WAI Wānaka is working with local farmers and landowners to safeguard and improve the quality of their waterway ecosystems.
Newsroom
The things we should be improving – cycling, public and shared transport, walking and urban design, writes Jess Berentson-Shaw
Mother Jones
Big Oil blocks Sarah Bloom Raskin from becoming the Fed’s top bank regulator.
The Conversation
Conflict in Eastern Europe must not cause global climate action to falter. We must ensure the renewables industry can withstand such global shocks.
Drought and deforestation: How Madagascar’s children are paying the price - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world
Mother Jones
“It just is really a nightmare time in Brazil.”
The Conversation
Efforts to fast-track a review of stewardship land could result in more mining access to conservation land as the governments wants to prioritise land where mining applications have already been made.
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