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How Sydney’s endless rain is ruining football seasons and breaking young hearts
As Saturday after Saturday gets wiped out by bad weather, clubs are drowning in a sea of unplayed fixtures
The first thing Jamie Amendolia’s boys ask him when he picks them up from school every afternoon is the same: “Is training on? Is the game on? Has it been called off? Are we playing?”
Both of his sons, Sebastian, 10, and Alexander, eight, play football at Enfield FC in Sydney’s inner west. They’re footy fanatics. Except both have had their season thrown into chaos by the wet weather that has hit and bogged down Sydney’s weekends for months.
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Argentina’s future lies in the balance as vast oilfields poised for extraction
If passed, a new bill would send the country headfirst into the Latin American oil rush and halt any meaningful energy transition
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The new bill that would allow the exploitation of vast oilfields will be, ecologists are certain, the nail in Argentina’s coffin. “We are facing the pinnacle of extractivism, the final adjustment of the screw so that Argentina is no longer a sovereign country over its territory,” says lawyer Enrique Viale.
The law being debated by Argentina’s national congress is designed to attract billions of dollars of investment into the oil and gas industry. Viale is president of the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers, one of 50 civil society organisations opposing the bill.
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Las Vegas sets record for number of days over 115F amid its ‘most extreme heatwave in history’
City hits all-time high of 120F as officials set up emergency cooling centers at community centers across south Nevada
Las Vegas set a new record on Wednesday as it marked a fifth consecutive day over 115F (46C), amid a lingering hot spell that will continue scorching much of the US into the weekend.
The blazing hot temperatures climbed to 115F shortly after 1pm at Harry Reid international airport, breaking the old mark of four consecutive days above 115F set in July 2005.
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‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat
Haris Doukas aims to make Athens more resilient to record temperatures by planting more trees and opening air-conditioned public spaces
Trees, cooling centres, water stations. All three are on Haris Doukas’s mind as he sits in his office-turned-control centre on the top floor of city hall.
Barely six months into the job, the mayor of Athens’s top priority is simple: ensuring that the people of Greece’s capital – mainland Europe’s hottest metropolis – survive the summer. After a June that was the hottest on record, the greater Attica region has already witnessed record-breaking temperatures and wildfires.
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New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages
Experts say the new figures dispel the notion that the country is protected from extreme temperatures and raise fears for local marine life
New Zealand’s sea temperatures have hit record highs, outstripping global averages threefold in one region, and prompting alarm over the health of the country’s marine life and ecosystems.
New data from Stats NZ shows since 1982, oceanic sea-surface temperatures have increased on average between 0.16 – 0.26C a decade, and between 0.19–0.34C a decade, in coastal waters.
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Climate expert Chris Stark appointed to lead UK clean energy taskforce
‘Mission control centre’ to work with energy companies and regulators towards goal of clean and cheaper power by 2030
Labour has appointed one of the country’s foremost climate experts to lead a “mission control centre” on clean energy.
Chris Stark, the former head of the UK’s climate watchdog, will head a Covid vaccine-style taskforce aimed at delivering clean and cheaper power by 2030.
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