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‘Danger in my back yard’: residents in a wildfire-prone California town eye more Yosemite tourism with unease

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:00:04 +0000

As a new glamping development seeks to open in the region hammered by extreme weather, Mariposa locals are fighting back

Kathleen Armstrong saw the smoke curling above the tree-covered horizon and turned on her scanner with bated breath. Mariposa was on fire again. It was the Fourth of July, a high-risk time in the California mountain town near Yosemite national park that had already seen its fair share of emergency evacuations.

Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:00:06 +0000

Pledge signed by experts from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have cut emissions

Carbon offsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading climate change scientists.

A pledge signed by scientists from nine countries, including the UK, the US and Australia, said the “only path that can prevent further escalation of climate impacts” was “real zero” and not “net zero”.

High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:00:04 +0000

Researchers gain deeper understanding of bird migration in study that could have ‘profound’ implications for windfarms

From plastic bags to shoelaces, the art in this California show is made entirely of trash

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:00:03 +0000

The Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco has curated a show of ‘alchemized’ toothpaste caps, zip ties, broken computer keys and perfume spray tubes

As a young artist, Miguel Arzabe visited art shows around the US to learn from others’ work. But his biggest source of inspiration were the exhibit catalogues. Fascinated by the documents, he decided to make his own work out of the books themselves.

Own some rope from the Mary Rose: rare shipwreck artefacts go on sale

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:00:01 +0000

A haul of 8,000 items from 150 shipwrecks is to be auctioned after the closure of a Cornish museum

They are some of the most evocative historic artefacts that fate ever consigned to the bottom of the sea. Now, coal from the Titanic, a piece of rope from the Mary Rose and musket flints from the shipwreck that inspired William Wordsworth to write one of his greatest works are to be sold at a very rare auction.

Two hurricanes stir up voter backlash to Florida Republicans’ climate denialism

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Destruction caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton bring climate crisis to top of mind, especially for young voters

The climate emergency was already a hot-button political issue in Florida long before devastating back-to-back hurricanes named Helene and Milton barreled into the state in recent weeks.

Chef Tom Kerridge calls on UK government to fund surplus food scheme

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:00:06 +0000

The Michelin-starred restaurateur has signed an open letter demanding delivery of £15m to divert produce to food banks and soup kitchens

Chef Tom Kerridge is teaming up with charities to demand delivery of a promised £15m fund to divert fresh but unused food from farms to food banks and soup kitchens across the country.

Repeated promises have been made by former ministers to fund the food waste reduction scheme, which effectively compensates farmers for harvesting, storing and packaging the food that would otherwise head into landfill or animal feed.

Woman bitten by snake found alive after week-long search in remote Snowy Mountains

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:22:33 +0000

Lovisa Sjoberg hadn’t been seen for almost a fortnight when she was located on Sunday afternoon at Kiandra about 85km south-west of Canberra

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A woman missing for more than a week in the Snowy Mountains region has been found alive four days after she was reportedly bitten by a snake.

Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:00:04 +0000

Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activism

Hundreds of health workers have called on the General Medical Council to stop suspending doctors imprisoned for peaceful climate activism ahead of a trial which could see the first jailing of a working GP for a non-violent climate protest in the UK.

If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton

admin — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:00:40 +0000

Legions of young people are getting organised, skilling up, raising their voices and placing their bodies in the path of those who profit from our addiction

Not long before the Nazis murdered him, the Lutheran pastor and resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children”.