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Project to build German EV microchip factory put on hold

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:06:51 +0000

US firm Wolfspeed and German car parts supplier ZF postpone plans over doubts over viability

A project to build a €3bn factory making microchips for electric vehicles once hailed as part of a “return of the industrial revolution” in Germany has been put on hold, as the crisis in the country’s hi-tech manufacturing industry deepened.

‘I had to fill the tub with ice water’: Americans on how they climate-proof their homes

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:17:07 +0000

US readers are responding to the reality of the climate crisis by adapting their homes, from insulation as a refuge from heat to removing yard debris in case of wildfires

Rose, 62, was living in a remote area of Washington, west of Seattle, when the scorching “heat dome” of 2021 hit the Pacific north-west. As the house Rose shared with her then 93-year-old mother grew hotter, and their two air conditioning units struggled to make any dent on the wall of heat, Rose’s heart rate climbed, and she watched as all the rubber bands in the house liquefied.

Bill Maher puts the fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the spotlight – but do the claims stack up? | Temperature Check

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:00:42 +0000

Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg told the US cable host its biggest threat was not the climate crisis, but do his claims stack up?

‘What the hell is happening’: calls for answers after 10% of Tasmanian salmon die in Macquarie Harbour fish farms

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:00:39 +0000

Greens MP says number of mortalities is ‘enormous’ and ‘most likely the result of overstocking’

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Environmentalists are calling on the Tasmanian salmon industry to explain why more than 1,000 tonnes of salmon died in fish farms in Macquarie Harbour over seven months last spring and summer.

Bring in pay-per-mile road pricing across UK, urges Tony Blair’s thinktank

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:23:18 +0000

Rachel Reeves urged to shelve fuel duty plans and overhaul taxes amid expected switch to electric vehicles

A pay-per-mile road pricing system must be brought in now, according to Tony Blair’s thinktank, which is urging the chancellor to overhaul motoring taxes.

‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:00:10 +0000

Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life

Solar panels for new homes may just be optional after pressure on Labour from housebuilders

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:27:33 +0000

Long-delayed regulations for England may ‘encourage’ housebuilders to equip homes with solar panels, rather than requiring them

Labour is considering making solar panels optional on new homes in England, after pressure from housebuilders, in a move that would weaken low-carbon regulations, the Guardian has learned.

Guardians of the gibbons: inside the Indian village where humans and hoolocks live side by side

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:06:08 +0000

Villagers in Barekuri, Assam, have lived closely with endangered hoolock gibbons for generations. A new Guardian documentary shows their bond – and the fight to protect them

Guardians of the Gibbons: animal-human harmony hangs in the balance

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:56:56 +0000

For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55-year-old farmer and father, has been taking care of one gibbon family while raising his own. When researcher Ishika Ramakrishna arrives to study human-gibbon interactions, she joins forces with Mohit and the villagers to tackle the gibbons’ urgent population decline, endangered by habitat loss, deforestation and industrial catastrophe

Guardians of the Gibbons: can India save its only ape species from extinction?

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:56:41 +0000

For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55-year-old farmer and father, has been taking care of one gibbon family while raising his own. When researcher Ishika Ramakrishna arrives to study human-gibbon interactions, she joins forces with Mohit and the villagers to tackle the gibbons' urgent population decline, endangered by habitat loss, deforestation and industrial catastrophe