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 – 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 […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Several outlets cover the news that a key meeting of the members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was suspended on Friday without an agreement on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest climate science. Reuters reports by Sudarshan Varadhan The meeting was suspended […]
Ace Business Desk – In short: Figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries show more than 27,000 battery electric vehicles were sold nationally in August: Published: Sun 20 Sep 2026 at 7:57am Due to a materially complex makeup, EV batteries can be difficult to recycle. Experts and industry voices say better EV battery waste […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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