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Ace Business Desk

China-Linked Investors Fail to Divest in Rare Earths ‘Northern Minerals’ & Could be Nationalise

Ace Business Desk – In short:  China-linked investors are defying federal government orders to divest from a Perth-based rare earths company. Northern Minerals is seen as a key player in efforts by both the US and Australia to break China’s stranglehold on the critical minerals supply chain: By foreign affairs correspondent Stephen Dziedzic Published: Wed 14 […]

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Ace News Desk

SPOTLIGHT on China’s Environmental Inspections of ‘Guardians of the Coast’

Ace News Desk – Protecting the ‘guardians’ of China’s coast with Recent environmental inspections to provinces including Guangdong and Guangxi in southern China flagged challenges with “inadequate” protection of mangroves. In this issue, Carbon Brief examines what challenges China faces in protecting its mangrove forests. The most recent set of China’s environmental inspections concluded at the end of September.  The inspections […]

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GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk

NEWS & VIEWS: How El Niño Could Affect U.K Weather Over the Coming Months

GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – How El Niño could affect UK weather over the coming months and how the country can prepare for future extremes. Last weekend, the UK government announced a new flood and drought resilience taskforceto “strengthen the nation’s ability to plan for and respond to extreme weather”. This year began amid one […]

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Ace History Desk

General Conference on Weights & Measures in France Vote to Stop Adding Seconds From 2027

Ace History Desk – On June 30 2015 at 23:59:59 UTC (19:59:59 EDT), artist Sara Morawetz was standing in the middle of New York’s Times Square with a pair of cymbals. As the clock ticked to the next second, she struck the cymbals together The Conversation by Michelle Bastian Published: October 15, 2026 2.53pm BST Experts […]

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Ace Business Desk

Britain spends £1.5bn switching wind farms off and gas plants on in aim to provide cheaper energy

Ace Business Desk – Britain has already spent more this year switching wind farms off and gas plants on than it did throughout last year. The bill: £1.51bn. Energy suppliers, meanwhile, warn of the worst winter crisis since 2022. Labour’s promise of cheaper energy looks increasingly expensive to deliver. The grid: Britain has spent more than […]

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GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk

STORY: From Drought to Deluge ‘Super’ El Niño’s Expanding Reach With Millions Affected

GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – More than 347 million children in nearly 100 countries and territories are expected to experience unusually wet or dry conditions between October and December 2026 due to El Niño, increasing the risk of extreme floods and droughts with potentially devastating consequences, according to latest UNICEF data & UN News reports Fast […]

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Logging Took Trees the Bears Called Home, so the Haida Nation Built Them New Dens

Ace News Desk – Elijah Washington pushes through wet ferns and branches left by logging, crossing the mossy forest floor on Haida Gwaii. He kneels beside a massive western red cedar stump. “it’s got to be just right, just like the Goldilocks.” Sonal Gupta This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of […]