Claimants say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heating
An 11-year-old girl from Portugal sat inside the grand chamber of the European court of human rights on Wednesday to face 86 lawyers from 32 nations in the world’s largest climate legal action.
Mariana Agostinho was alongside her brother and sister, and her cousins, two rows back from 17 human rights judges.
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09/27/2023 - 06:02
09/27/2023 - 05:29
Environmental rules stating building projects must result in 10% net gain were supposed to be introduced in 2023
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The government will delay new environmental laws that require housebuilders to improve local nature and wildlife habitats when they build a development in existing green space.
The proposed rules are called “biodiversity net gain” and the principle is that developers cannot destroy the local environment and any development has to give extra provisions for nature. The rules, which state that building projects must result in 10% net gain, were supposed to be introduced in 2023 and would have provided funding for many wildlife charities from developers’ profits.
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09/27/2023 - 02:26
Campaigners including Greta Thunberg had called for halt to Rosebank project involving Oslo-listed Equinor
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Britain has given the go-ahead to develop the UK’s biggest untapped oilfield off Shetland, sparking outrage from environmental campaigners.
The UK oil and gas regulator’s decision to grant the Oslo-listed Equinor and the British firm Ithaca Energy permission to develop the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea was condemned by the Green party MP Caroline Lucas as “the greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime”.
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09/27/2023 - 01:46
NSW EPA to test two brush turkeys and several pigeons found in Mosman to identify likely cause of death
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Dead brush turkeys believed to have been poisoned have been found on Sydney’s lower north shore at an oval where firefighters discovered suspected pellet bait.
Two brush turkeys – a protected native bird species – and at least seven pigeons died after they were found near Allan Border Oval in Mosman and taken to a nearby vet on Monday.
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09/26/2023 - 20:14
There’s a bowerbird building a bower in my backyard, so this year I’m on Team Bowerbird
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It has been a warm start to spring, and my neighbourhood has been absolutely overrun by a mob of rowdy, horny, young satin bowerbirds. I’m assuming they’re mostly juvenile males from the behaviour (hanging out in parks, acting moody, vaping …) but I’m no ornithologist, so take my observations with a grain of salt.
One of these rambunctious bowerbird youths has been constructing his bower a metre from where my kids jump on the trampoline.
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09/26/2023 - 20:00
Join Wave Makers host Tamara Kahn as she sits down with a friend who has always shared her spirit of adventure and now a passion for Blue tech as well. Jonathan Ballesteros, the entrepreneurial mind behind Geyser Systems, shares his story of launching the groundbreaking company that’s redefining the way we approach water conservation. Listen as they explore Jonathan’s personal journey, from his passion for technology and entrepreneurship to his mission-driven commitment to creating a more sustainable future for our water resources. Learn how Geyser Systems is revolutionizing a water usage overdue for an overhaul: the shower.
09/26/2023 - 13:23
Ex-president attacks clean energy by making multiple false statements at South Carolina rally
Donald Trump has launched a lengthy and largely baseless attack on wind turbines for causing large numbers of whales to die, claiming that “windmills” are making the cetaceans “crazy” and “a little batty”.
Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, used a rally in South Carolina to assert that while there was only a small chance of killing a whale by hitting it with a boat, “their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. No one does anything about that.”
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09/26/2023 - 13:06
Tiny crustaceans described as ‘the bioequivalent of a Dyson vacuum cleaner for wastewater’
Tiny water fleas could play a big role in filtering out drugs, pesticides and industrial chemicals from wastewater to make it safe, according to scientists.
“We’ve developed our bioequivalent of a Dyson vacuum cleaner for wastewater, which is very, very exciting,” said study co-author Karl Dearn, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Birmingham.
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09/26/2023 - 09:51
European Commission president welcomes agreement among EU governments on Euro 7 pollution standards
More from NGO Transport and Environment’s Anna Krajinska, who criticised EU governments’ compromise decision yesterday on pollution standards for cars, vans and trucks.
“The fight to secure an effective Euro 7 is a reminder of the political and economic power of the car industry,” Krajinska told the Guardian in an email this morning.
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09/26/2023 - 09:00
Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water
It’s little known to the throngs of tourists who gawp at the wonder of the Great Lakes but at the meeting point of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, a combined system that forms the largest lake in the world, there is a 70-year-old pipeline, battered and dented by dropped boat anchors.
The pipeline pushes a million gallons of oil each hour through the heart of this vast ecosystem.
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