Climate News: The mirage of nuclear power; CSIRO: innovate or risk profits; Dangerous heat kills dozens

Climate Conversations

Nuclear energy was given a brief platform on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Q&A program and was championed by the National Party Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie.

"Charged up: WA town to home Australia’s biggest battery";

"GV Community Energy";

"Farmers must innovate or risk profits says CSIRO";

"Colbinabbin residents oppose huge solar farm";

"Heat wave in Southeast Asia closes schools, triggers health alerts";

"Dangerous heat kills dozens, closes schools, prompts four-day workweek";

"Peter Dutton calls for government to engage in ‘mature conversation’ on nuclear energy";

"Some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fishing";

"Alaska Native community experiments with growing food above the Arctic Circle";

"Australia mining at risk from climate change-fueled drought and heat";

"Mexico proudly controls its energy but could find it hard to reach its climate goals";

"I found a $2,100 EV. Here’s how you can, too";

"Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’";

"Labor’s first extinction";

"NSW to announce life extension of Eraring, Australia’s largest coal-fired power station";

"A Uniquely French Approach to Environmentalism";

"Saying the stakes could not be higher, Newsom to speak at Vatican climate summit";

"How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer";

"The Green Gas Lie";

"Repeated periods of heat and drought causing some trees to die – study";

"Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy";

"Scotland’s leader resigns after conflicts over climate change, gender identity weakened government";

"Heavy Rains Threaten China’s Rice as Extreme Weather Grips South";

"European cities are turning to nature-based solutions amid climate crisis";

"Majority of critical minerals face heightened climate risks by 2050, study finds";

"Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years";

"Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’";

"Capital Research Center";

"Kenya flooding: Around 50 killed in villages near Mai Mahiu town";

"PM Update: Records set after highs hit near 90, with more heat expected Tuesday";

"Alaska Native community experiments with growing food above the Arctic Circle";

"New rules will slash air, water and climate pollution from U.S. power plants";

"Ford Hybrids, EVs, Transit Set Records; Q1 Sales Top Industry, Up 7%";

"Climate change and human rights: how a landmark legal victory in Europe could affect NZ":

"Republicans want to plant a trillion trees. Scientists are skeptical.";

"What kind of diner are you? 6 types of diners who avoid plant-based meat dishes";

"House Republicans pass energy bill to roll back regulation of fossil fuel production";

"Our tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived – and we shouldn’t be burning them";

"Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone";

"Retired UK GP suspended for five months after climate protests";

"Sugar gums have a reputation as risky branch-droppers but they’re important to bees, parrots and possums";

"These European countries could lose more than 30 days of comfortable weather a year by 2100";

"17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot";

"Drought, food shortages and deadly heat: El Niño has ended but its impacts are still being felt";

"With the clean energy transition, low-income communities fear they’ll be saddled with big infrastructure projects, again";

"High Seas Treaty: EU votes to ratify landmark international law to protect oceans";

"Heat Islands and Equity";

"‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up";

"Pre-Bunking Climate Misinformation";

"IRA’s Solar for All Program Will Install Nearly 1 Million Systems in US";

"Why dimming the Sun would be an effective tool in the fight against climate change".

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