IEA says faster clean energy rollout being led by solar power in China with country set to boast half of world’s renewables by 2030
China is expected to account for almost 60% of all renewable energy capacity installed worldwide between now and 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.
The IEA’s highly influential renewable energy report found that over the next six years renewable energy projects will roll out at three times the pace of the previous six years, led by the clean energy programmes of China and India.
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
10/09/2024 - 00:00
10/09/2024 - 00:00
The Joides Resolution has contributed to our understanding of climate crisis, the origin of life, earthquakes and eruptions. But funding cuts mean it may have sailed its last expedition
In the early summer of this year, a ship set sail around the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. But this wasn’t any ordinary ship. For almost 40 years the Joides Resolution drilled into the ocean floor to collect samples and data that helped scientists to study Earth’s history and structure. Expeditions on the vessel have made a vital contribution to our understanding of the climate crisis, the tectonic plates theory, the origin of life on Earth and natural hazards such as earthquakes and eruptions. Yet the two-month voyage around Svalbard was to be its last.
The National Science Foundation (NSF), the US agency that provided scientists at Texas A&M University with funds for the ship, announced last year it would not give money for the drilling vessel past September 2024. It was a declaration that shocked the global scientific community and meant that Svalbard would be the ship’s final outing.
The vibration isolated television is attached to the drillpipe and is used to image the seafloor before drilling begins. Photograph: Lisa Crowder/IODP JRSO
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10/08/2024 - 23:00
Willow was event’s surprise victor, and is now strategising for the world championships in Finland
Hannah Willow had little doubt what she wanted. She wanted the glory of being crowned Glasgow’s first champion tree hugger. And she got it.
“I thought it was just a charity event,” Willow said, after her triumph in the inaugural event on Sunday. “When I was told it was a competition my inner child took a somersault; I didn’t realise that until just before it started.
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10/08/2024 - 18:01
Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month
The government’s official climate watchdog has appointed the head of the energy industry’s trade association to lead its work helping to drive the UK’s emissions to net zero by 2050.
Emma Pinchbeck, the head of Energy UK, will take up the role of chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) from early next month after four years at the helm of the trade association.
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10/08/2024 - 17:45
Dam removal concluded a decades long fight on 2 October, which also saw Chinook salmon return to the waters
With California’s Klamath Dam removal project finally completed, new before and after photos show the dramatic differences along the river with and without the dams. The photos were taken by Swiftwater Films, a documentary company chronicling the dam removal project – a two-decade fight that concluded on 2 October.
“The tribally led effort to dismantle the dams is an expression of our sacred duty to maintain balance in the world,” the Yurok tribal chairman, Joseph L James, said in a statement. “That is why we fought so hard for so long to tear down the dams and bring the salmon home.”
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10/08/2024 - 17:45
Timor-Leste president’s trip comes amid mounting pressure for Labor to finalise an agreement
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The $74bn Greater Sunrise gas project, which has been decades in the making, could be under way by the end of the year, the Timor-Leste president, José Ramos-Horta, said.
But he also said the pipeline and accompanying processing work must go to his nation, not Darwin.
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10/08/2024 - 16:11
An entire family was killed less than a month before wedding day as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida
As the country turns its attention to Hurricane Milton, which is expected to bring life-threatening conditions to parts of Florida after it makes landfall later this week, communities in much of the south-east US are still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene almost two weeks ago.
In western North Carolina, home to many mountain communities such as Green Mountain, entire towns were destroyed and washed away during the storm. Residents became isolated as roads became impassable. Electricity and cellphone service went out.
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10/08/2024 - 11:59
As Milton makes landfall in Florida, experts warn the climate crisis is fueling more powerful storms
Hurricane Milton – live updates
The speed with which recent hurricanes have been intensifying in strength is alarming climate experts, officials and residents facing these huge storms. More than a million people were told to evacuate as Hurricane Milton hit Florida’s west coast.
Milton is the third fastest-intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, the US National Weather Service has said as experts warn the climate crisis is fueling more powerful storms.
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10/08/2024 - 07:09
President to announce in Wisconsin EPA rule aimed at ensuring drinking water is safe for all Americans
A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an aggressive approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans.
Biden announced the final Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule during a visit to the swing state of Wisconsin in the final month of a tight presidential campaign. The announcement highlights an issue – safe drinking water – that Kamala Harris has prioritized as vice-president as well as during her presidential campaign. The new rule supplants a looser standard set by former president Donald Trump’s administration that did not include a universal requirement to replace lead pipes.
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10/07/2024 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s44183-024-00088-0
Conducting marine genetic research for whom? Mapping knowledge flows from science to patents
