Composted Reads The good news 2025 tipped to be bumper year for EVs as emission laws change and new models arrive Emissions caps to come into effect on 1 January for commercial fleets, utes and big 4WDs Electric utes, vans and sports cars from a wide range of automakers will roll into Australia overContinue reading “Composted Reads at the beginning of 2025”
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Last year broke heat records across the world – is 2025 destined to be more of the same?
Gabrielle Canon It will perhaps come as no surprise that 2024 will be crowned the hottest year on record. Marked by a cascade of devastating weather events, missed climate goals and the ravenous consumption of fossil fuels that broke records in its own right, the world continued its grim march up the thermometer, toppling theContinue reading “Last year broke heat records across the world – is 2025 destined to be more of the same?”
Floods a sign of climate crisis tampering Spain
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time, and addressing it should be a top priority for every nation. As Greta Thunberg aptly describes, it is an existential emergency. Last year was the hottest on record, with the UK reaching 34.8C. Europe has been ravaged by wildfires, hurricanes are becoming more frequent andContinue reading “Floods a sign of climate crisis tampering Spain”
Anti-ageing, vultures, macaques, overpopulation and soaring temperatures
Vultures prevent the spread of deadly diseases by purging the environment of harmful pathogens CREDIT: Kang-Chun Cheng With their bald heads and oily black feathers, vultures have long been reviled as symbols of death and gluttony. But the carrion-eating birds of prey provide a vital service for the environment – cleaning – and just howContinue reading “Anti-ageing, vultures, macaques, overpopulation and soaring temperatures”
It keeps getting hotter
12 This is how many months in a row global average temperatures have hit or exceeded a key climate threshold of 1.5C, highlighting the challenge in limiting global warming.
Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024
Why 2024 could be the year the Amazon gets the help it needs For decades, the world’s rainforests have been cleared at a relentless pace, mostly destroyed by humans for agriculture. It is a familiar tale accompanied by images of orangutans confronting loggers and cattle ranchers expanding further into the Earth’s most biodiverse places. ButContinue reading “Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024”
Composted Reads: clean ups, clothing consumption, flash floods, global warming a.o.
The good news ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways Every week, the Sungai Watch staff don waders and gloves and plunge into the waterways around the Indonesian island of Bali, where they have strung up their big plastic barriers. Along with volunteers, they work their wayContinue reading “Composted Reads: clean ups, clothing consumption, flash floods, global warming a.o.”
Unintentional or intentional destruction of a people in Gaza and a climate crisis
Although the UN Office on and the Responsibility to Protect offers a more legalistic definition, ‘genocide’ is universally understood to refer to the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. Intent can be difficult to prove in a court of law unless the accused has been foolish or brazen enough to expoundContinue reading “Unintentional or intentional destruction of a people in Gaza and a climate crisis”
Putin says Russia’s mission is to create ‘new world’
Associated Press, October 5, 2023 Event Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia’s mission is to create a “new world” and blames Western hegemony for Moscow’s grinding offensive in Ukraine. Putin has portrayed Russia’s full-scale military intervention in Ukraine — launched in February 2022 — as part of a long-standing confrontation with the West. “WeContinue reading “Putin says Russia’s mission is to create ‘new world’”
Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023
Essential reads ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat Global temperatures soared to a new record in September by a huge margin, stunning scientists and leading one to describe it as “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”. The hottest September on record follows the hottest August and hottest July, with the latter being the hottest monthContinue reading “Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023”
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