BYD overtakes Mitsubishi after nearly quadrupling sales in past year, according to official figures, as GWM, MG and Chery also surge
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Australians bought more than 20,000 Chinese-made vehicles in August, putting four Chinese brands into the top 10 for the first time, while Tesla sales have slumped by more than a third.
BYD came in sixth for the month, overtaking Mitsubishi, after its sales nearly quadrupled compared with August 2024, while GWM, MG and Chery each outsold Isuzu Ute in the month to round out the top 10.
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09/03/2025 - 04:32
09/03/2025 - 02:56
Oil firm, which paused project in 2024, will not restart work because facility deemed ‘insufficiently competitive’
Shell has axed the construction of its biofuels plant in the Netherlands, ending what would have been one of the biggest converters of waste into green jet fuel in Europe.
The oil company, which paused construction at the site in July last year to tackle technical problems, said it had decided not to restart building after it found the plant would be “insufficiently competitive” to meet demand for “affordable, low-carbon products”.
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09/03/2025 - 02:36
The hole – about 100 metres deep – was not visible from the surface – and there could be thousands more like it
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A study of one abandoned coal exploration borehole in a Queensland paddock has found it was leaking the same amount of greenhouse gases in a year as about 10,000 cars – and there could be thousands more just like it.
Scientists at the University of Queensland also monitored a second coal exploration bore that was emitting about the same amount of methane and was forcing groundwater several metres into the air like a geyser.
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09/03/2025 - 02:00
A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs
What does British summertime mean to you? Blackberries? Picnics? Festivals? Ticks? This summer has been the hottest on record in the UK. As human-caused climate breakdown intensifies, the outdoor areas we spend time in are changing – and so, too, are our relationships with the land and the ecosystems we live in.
My home is in the south of England, near beautiful woodlands. Since moving there in 2016, the number of ticks my family has picked up in the woods has increased each year, but this summer has been astonishing. For a few weeks, our four-year-old came home from nursery with a tick almost every day. I’ve had many: some tiny nymphal ones that could be easily missed. We spend time in Scotland, too, and find ticks often when we go there now.
Lucy Jones is a journalist and the author of Losing Eden and The Nature Seed
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09/03/2025 - 00:00
Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds
The financing of transition mineral mining is driving widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses, according to a report.
Banks and investors have ploughed hundreds of billions of dollars into companies mining for minerals for the manufacture of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, energy grids and electric vehicles in the past decade, according to the research.
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09/02/2025 - 21:02
Australia’s 2035 target for cutting emissions will reveal how serious we are about addressing the climate crisis
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The climate crisis is often a fight over numbers – and we are coming towards the end of a big one. It will shape how ambitious Australia will be in addressing this era-defining problem, over the next decade and beyond.
The Albanese government is weighing a decision on the national emissions reduction target for 2035. Along with the policies that follow, it will be a legacy marker for a prime minister who is sometimes accused of being risk averse.
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09/02/2025 - 15:50
More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts
Hundreds of staff at two of California’s most popular national parks have voted to unionize, a move that comes during a troubled summer for the National Park Service, which has seen the Trump administration enact unprecedented staff and budget cuts.
In an election held between July and August, more than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks voted in support of organizing a union, according to a statement from the National Federation of Federal Employees. The Federal Labor Relations Authority certified the results last week.
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09/02/2025 - 13:37
‘Megaberg’ known as A23a has rapidly disintegrated in warmer waters and could disappear within weeks
Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.
Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivalled at the time.
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09/02/2025 - 12:56
MPs on Commons committee describe figures as a waste and say money should have been used to fix infrastructure
English water companies have spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches such as illegal sewage spills.
Correspondence from the companies to the Commons environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) committee published on Tuesday reveals that millions of pounds of billpayers’ money has been spent over the past five years on expensive external lawyers enlisted to reduce liabilities for regulatory breaches.
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09/02/2025 - 12:46
Authorities said the boy, who survived and was hospitalized, was bitten while snorkelling near Key Largo
An eight-year-old child suffered “a significant amount of blood loss” after he was bitten by a shark as he was snorkelling near Key Largo on Monday, authorities in Florida said.
The boy survived and was taken by helicopter to hospital in Miami for treatment to a leg wound above the knee. His condition was unknown on Tuesday morning, but local media reports described his wounds as “severe”.
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