Climate News: All-electric garbage truck - fun ride; Nuclear focus forces resignation; Elizabeth Kolbert talks about hope
Shepparton's Foott Waste is trialling an all-electric garbage truck and principal, Peter Foott (pictured behind the wheel of this revolutionary truck) took me for a "test ride" just a few days ago.
"Understanding Climate Change: All the Natural and Human Causes";
"Split inside conservative green group over new nuclear agenda";
"Ontario's Nuclear Advantage";
"Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between";
"Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK?";
"Dutch court ruling considers national airline guilty of greenwashing";
"Fossil subsidies could have paid for Canadian wind and solar projects 12 times over";
"Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage?";
"Generation starts at what will be South Australia’s biggest wind farm";
"Australia’s biggest coal generator teams up with SunDrive to make solar at Liddell";
"Solar Sunshot: Albanese pledges $1bn to take Australia from “pit to panel”";
"Toronto is home to the world’s largest lake-powered cooling system. Here’s how it works.";
"Even Disney’s beloved Autopia ride is giving up on gas-powered cars";
"The Carbon Brief Profile: Australia";
"The Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria";
"An ‘extremely active’ hurricane season is headed our way, experts warn";
"Man's body found near reserve in Sydney's west after rain and extreme weather hits NSW";
"Carbon Emissions Reduction Rate in U.S. Has Doubled Since Passage of Inflation Reduction Act, Report Finds";
"Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?";
"Zambia’s fossil-fuel subsidy cuts help climate and kids – but taxi drivers suffer";
"Is water provision in drought-hit Zambia climate ‘loss and damage’ or adaptation?";
"New PBS Documentary Focuses on a More Hopeful Future";
"Virginia’s Utility Regulator Approves Enough New Solar Projects to Power Nearly 200,000 Homes";
"Secondhand Clothing Market in U.S. Grew 7x Faster Than General Clothing Retail in 2023":
"‘On the Move’ examines how climate change will alter where people live";
"Zimbabwean president declares state of disaster due to drought";
"Rivers Recover Rapidly Once Dams Are Gone, Study Finds";
"Klamath Dam Removal: ‘It’s an Environmental Disaster’";
"Dam removals, restoration project on Klamath River expected to help salmon, researchers conclude";
"In the Pacific Northwest, Salmon Declines Upend a Way of Life";
"Climate change is changing how we keep time".
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