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The coal baron who could transform steel and methane together
There’s a particular kind of irony building in Whyalla. The man now potentially in line to transform the troubled South Australia steelworks has just acquired the most methane-intensive coal portfolio in New South Wales. The question now remains, could this coal baron become Australia’s best hope to tackle its methane emissions?
Some of Australia’s dirtiest coal mines are about to change hands. Here’s why we should be worried
Yesterday, Anglo American announced that it had agreed to sell some of Australia’s most emissions-intensive coal mines to a new private owner, Dhilmar, shifting some of the country’s biggest methane away from shareholder interests and corporate transition plans, and into the hands of a largely unknown, 18 month old owner. Last year, Anglo American’s coal mine portfolio released just over 3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. But last year was anything but normal.
Why the “generational” data centre opportunity feels a lot like the coal and gas debates of old
Australians have spent decades fighting over how much multi-national investors should pay for our resources. Now, it seems the debate has shifted from the mines to the machines. While Anthropic just opened its first Sydney office, Google is currently negotiating a proposed $20 billion data-centre expansion.
Snail trails and uncertainty: Australia’s emissions are not falling fast enough
The latest quarterly update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory from DCCEEW is out, it’s a great opportunity to check in on the country’s climate progress. The topline figure from this quarterly update is that national emissions fell by 1.9% between September 2024 and September 2025. For those people who wear the 1% t-shirts and believe in incremental progress, this is certainly more than nothing.
Failed bid? Australia misses out on a massive trade fair, but still has critics role to play at COP31
After days of speculation, federal energy and climate minister Chris Bowen has now publicly confirmed that Australia has proposed a joint Presidency format for COP31 – abandoning its hopes of hosting the two-week forum in Adelaide next year.
Fossil fuel production has driven a staggering rise in Queensland’s energy emissions
Between 2005 and 2022, emissions across Queensland’s “energy industries” increased by 52%. That’s according to the recently published State of the Environment Report 2024, and it’s a staggering statistic, especially when you consider what’s been happening across the energy sector. In 2024, Queensland’s thermal electricity generation dropped to its lowest level since 2002.
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Copied 1924 E 2100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84106, US $829,900 1924 E 2100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84106 Checked: 9 hours ago Updated: Jul 30, 2025 at 11:54AM Investment Summary Net Operating Income (NOI) minus mortgage payments. Calculation: NOI - Mortgage Payments Monthly Cash Flow -$1,735 Capitalization Rate is a rate of return that compares the yearly Net Operating Income (NOI) to the market value.
Albanese’s green steel boost leaves Queensland’s coal budget hopes in the dust
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to Beijing this week is far more than a diplomatic stopover; it’s a strategic push for a green steel revolution. Describing his approach as “patient, calibrated and deliberate,” Albanese’s decarbonisation push is laying the groundwork for Australia’s most promising economic future. And he couldn’t have picked a better country to partner with.
Coal royalties fell by nearly half a billion dollars, as climate disaster costs leap 1,000%
This week’s New South Wales budget laid bare a critical moral and economic challenge facing the state’s economy. Over the last few years, the cost of climate-fueled disasters has skyrocketed. Since 2019-20, the NSW and Australian Governments have spent an average of $1.6 billion per year on disaster relief alone, up by over 1,000% from the six years prior. In response, the state government has allocated $4.2 billion for disaster recovery over the next four years.
NSW approves extension of its second most polluting coal mine, to the benefit of no-one but its owner
In a week where national attention is rightly focussed on the potential approval of the North West Shelf project, Tuesday’s quiet approval of the Tahmoor Colliery could prove to be one of the NSW government’s biggest setbacks to achieving its 2030 emissions targets. Tahmoor colliery is a super-emitting underground coal mine. In 2024, it released the equivalent of more than a million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, before any of its coal was burned.
Coal mine emissions reporting methods remain a major blight on Safeguard success
Australia’s is finally beginning to do what it was designed to: place real limits on the country’s biggest polluters. After years of climate inaction, the scheme has been significantly strengthened through the tightening of baselines, the removal of unused “headroom,” and a commitment to annual emissions reductions across 219 major facilities. For a policy once written off as ineffective, these reforms mark a vital step forward.
Who will take on the emissions of Australia's most polluting coal mine if Gupta sells?
Sanjeev Gupta’s financial woes were undoubtedly the biggest news in Australia’s energy space last week, including the British industrialist’s plan to sell one of the country’s most polluting coal mines in a last minute bid to save the nation’s biggest steelworks. The mine itself is one of the most storied in Australia’s history. The Bargo mine was initially built in the 70’s by an American company owned by Daniel K. Ludwig, a reclusive Elon Musk of his day.
It's a tenant's world: In the London office market, quality and location are more important than ever
Recent headlines on the London office market make interesting reading. Pret A Manger, the sandwich-shop chain, reported that its sales returned nearly to pre-pandemic levels in the City and Canary Wharf in March, and commuting reportedly has increased by 20 percent since January.
Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don't want to rock the boat
It is becoming increasingly possible that sea-level rise of a metre or more will occur this century. You might expect this threat to preoccupy coastal homeowners. But many deny the need to act, for fear their property values will fall. This particular brand of climate denial presents a conundrum for governments and local councils, which must plan urgently for climate change.
Regulation of Glucose-Dependent Golgi-Derived Microtubules by cAMP/EPAC2 Promotes Secretory Vesicle Biogenesis in Pancreatic β Cells
Highlights • Glucose triggers GDMT nucleation in β cells, which mirrors biphasic insulin release • Glucose-dependent GDMT nucleation is regulated by EPAC2 downstream of cAMP • GDMTs are necessary for insulin granule biogenesis at the TGN • Glucose-dependent GDMT nucleation maintains the secretion/storage insulin balance Summary The microtubule (MT) network is an essential regulator of insulin secretion from pancreatic β cells, which is central to blood-sugar homeostasis.
Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be disastrous for marine life and the local community
It would take 17 days to respond to an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight. And that’s the best-case scenario. The Great Australian Bight is home to a unique array of marine life. More than 85% of species in this remote stretch of rocky coastline are not found anywhere else in the world. It’s also potentially one of “Australia’s largest untapped oil reserves”, according to Norwegian energy company Equinor.
Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be disastrous for marine life and the local community
The Great Australian Bight is home to at least 14 schools of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: Shutterstock The Great Australian Bight is home to a unique array of marine life. More than 85% of species in this remote stretch of rocky coastline are not found anywhere else in the world. It's also potentially one of "Australia's largest untapped oil reserves," according to Norwegian energy company Equinor.
Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be disastrous for marine life and the local community
The Great Australian Bight is home to a unique array of marine life. More than 85% of species in this remote stretch of rocky coastline are not found anywhere else in the world. It’s also potentially one of “Australia’s largest untapped oil reserves”, according to Norwegian energy company Equinor. Equinor has proposed to drill a deepwater oil well 370km offshore to a depth of more than two kilometres in search of oil.
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In southeastern Pennsylvania, CSX Transportation sought to increase the productivity of its Trenton Line freight rail service by improving the vertical clearance of its tracks so it could operate double-stack container cars along the busy corridor. Investigations using technologies ranging from aerial and laser surveys to lidar, GPS equipment, ground-penetrating radar, and seismic refraction techniques helped determine the geotechnical conditions along the route and inform the resulting design.
Recent grassland losses are concentrated around U.S. ethanol refineries
Under EISA reporting requirements, the EPA must submit triennial reports to the U.S. Congress summarizing the environmental impacts of biofuels. In its initial report in 2011, the agency identified the expansion of corn cultivation onto lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) or used as pasture (both essentially grassland conversions) as the most important source of negative environmental impacts potentially arising from ethanol development [ 13 ].
Recent grassland losses are concentrated around U.S. ethanol refineries
Although the United States has pursued rapid development of corn ethanol as a matter of national biofuel policy, relatively little is known about this policy's widespread impacts on agricultural land conversion surrounding ethanol refineries. This knowledge gap impedes policy makers' ability to identify and mitigate potentially negative environmental impacts of ethanol production.
Threshold-Dependent Cooperativity of Pdx1 and Oc1 in Pancreatic Progenitors Establishes Competency for Endocrine Differentiation and β-Cell Function
Combined Pdx1 and Oc1 Heterozygosity Has a Broad Effect on the Transcriptional Network Regulating Endocrine Development Embryonic Endocrine Progenitor Specification and Endocrine Cell Maturation during the Secondary Transition Are Impaired by Double Pdx1-Oc1 Heterozygosity Impaired Terminal Differentiation and Function of Hormone+ Cells with Double Pdx1-Oc1 Heterozygosity Restoration of Normal Glucose Homeostasis, but Persistent Gene Expression Defects, in DH Animals at Weaning Pdx1 and Oc1...
Recent land use change in the Western Corn Belt threatens grasslands and wetlands
In the US Corn Belt, a recent doubling in commodity prices has created incentives for landowners to convert grassland to corn and soybean cropping. Here, we use land cover data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service Cropland Data Layer to assess grassland conversion from 2006 to 2011 in the Western Corn Belt (WCB): five states including North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa.
Amygdala and fusiform gyrus temporal dynamics: Responses to negative facial expressions
Sixteen participants were studied (8 females, 8 males; M = 26.7, SD = 4.7, Range = 22–41 years of age). All participants were Caucasian and right-handed determined by the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory [16], free of psychoactive medications and medical, neurological or psychiatric illness. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) [17] and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) [18] scores were in the normal range (BDI: M = 0.9, SD = 1.8, BAI: M = 2.4, SD = 2.2).
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