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Continue reading...Biden administration’s effort to increase offshore wind energy is part of plan to generate power for more than 10m homes by 2030
The Biden administration is moving to sharply increase offshore wind energy along the US east coast, saying on Monday it is taking steps toward approving a huge windfarm off New Jersey as part of an effort to generate electricity for more than 10m homes by 2030.
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Continue reading...Czechs and Germans who live in the shadow of the vast Turów mine claim it is an environmental menace. Some in Poland want to weaponise its defence
When the Czech government announced it was taking Poland to Europe’s highest court it came as a surprise to Warsaw. After all, EU countries rarely sue one another. Prague’s demand is a politically explosive one. Not only is it challenging the extension of mining activity at Turów, a vast lignite mine that has been in operation for nearly 100 years, it also wants the European court of justice to order its immediate closure.
Sandwiched between Germany and the Czech Republic in the Silesia region of south-west Poland, the open-pit mine is depleting the groundwater supplies of its neighbours and violates EU environmental law, the Czech government alleges. On the Czech and German sides of the border, communities blame Turów for draining their water and causing dangerous levels of air and noise pollution.
Poland got what we asked for. It's a little bit our fault
The consequences of closure would be dramatic. We cannot even imagine it
Continue reading...Research links consumption of foods such as coffee and chocolate to global deforestation
The average western consumer of coffee, chocolate, beef, palm oil and other commodities is responsible for the felling of four trees every year, many in wildlife-rich tropical forests, research has calculated.
Destruction of forests is a major cause of both the climate crisis and plunging wildlife populations, as natural ecosystems are razed for farming. The study is the first to fully link high-resolution maps of global deforestation to the wide range of commodities imported by each country across the world.
Continue reading...UN development chief says access to finance is vital if upcoming Cop26 climate talks are to be a success
Boris Johnson’s government must take the lead in giving poor countries access to the finance they need to tackle the climate crisis, to make vital climate talks a success, the UN’s development chief has said.
Ministers from around the world will meet virtually this week at a conference hosted by the UK to discuss the needs of developing nations struggling to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, as their economies have been left reeling by the Covid pandemic.
Continue reading...Race on to preserve centrepiece at Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectric power
A race has begun to prevent one of the most spectacular fireplaces in the UK from crumbling because of the increase in heavy rainfall brought about by climate change.
The drawing room fireplace at Cragside, Northumberland, is deliberately over the top, the National Trust’s property curator, Clara Woolford, said. “It is ridiculously extravagant and is in stark contrast to the rest of the house, which was intentional.”
Continue reading...After bottles were recovered in top shape from a first world war shipwreck, winemakers have started to exploit the sea’s cool, dark environment
Slipping into the chilly waters of the Baltic sea, the divers descended more than 60 metres to where the masts of the Jönköping lay strewn across the seabed. They glided past the wounds left when the Swedish schooner was sunk by a German U-boat in 1916 to home in on the rare treasure they had come for: thousands of bottles of 1907 Heidsieck champagne.
Related: Champagne found at sea turns out to be world's oldest vintage
If I put 20 wine tanks below the sea – all exactly the same – they’ll all come back different
We’re opening a window in a world that’s still to be discovered
Continue reading...Labour’s leader on climate says Boris Johnson must face up to ‘terrifying’ challenge of stopping global warming
The UK must tell the truth about the “terrifying and exacting” scale of the challenge the world faces to avoid climate breakdown as it prepares to host a make or break summit of world leaders later this year, Ed Miliband has warned.
“A cosy consensus” between politicians, policymakers and some NGOs, focusing on long-term net zero targets rather than short-term action, could prove disastrous, he said. Instead, Boris Johnson’s government must focus on persuading countries to implement immediate far-reaching reductions in emissions and throw everything at making the conference in Glasgow in November a success, including enlisting the help of former prime ministers like Theresa May and Gordon Brown.
Continue reading...Australia Institute calls for rule change to allow renewables to replace fossil fuels in underpinning grid reliability
Renewable energy and batteries can secure Australia’s electricity grid as effectively as coal and gas, new research suggests.
The research, commissioned by the Australia Institute thinktank and released on Monday, found clean technologies provided the fast frequency response service and voltage control needed to secure the energy grid and reduce cost. But the report says regulatory barriers currently limit the ability of renewable energy and batteries to provide system security.
Related: Twiggy Forrest sets sights on making the impossible possible when it comes to 'pure green energy'
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Continue reading...Adult learning | Barbecues | Climate crisis | Boating advice | Codewords
Your editorial on adult education (21 March) rekindled memories of teaching evening classes as a lecturer for many years. It was a sheer joy to teach those students; we tended to learn from each other. A few of my ex-students became lecturers themselves. Dr Khosro S JahdiLeeds
• Having been smoked all winter by neighbours’ woodburning stoves and bonfires, could I make a spring plea for weather forecasters to stop referring to “barbecue weather”? Thanks to neighbours’ barbecues, the atmosphere occasionally resembles that of a burning oil dump. There’s enough threat in the air we breathe without adding to it. Mike Peart Sheffield
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