Climate News: Melbourne sets up cool spaces; Climate betrayal; Queensland flood emergency; U.S. cities to become virtual ghost towns

Melbourne sets up its cool spaces - "Pop-up to cool down the vulnerable in Melbourne’s deadly heat"; "Climate Betrayal: how backroom deals with Japan locked Australia in for decades of gas"; "From 100% dirty diesel to nearly 70% solar powered, and climbing, Lord Howe goes electric without wind"; "How many birds do wind farms kill?": "Amazon inks clean power deal with Scottish windfarm"; "Climate concerns prompt policy shifts among UK travel managers"; "Hot burst to send temperatures soaring in Melbourne, Sydney"; "To avoid the worst of climate change we have to change how we travel"; "Australia’s soils are notoriously poor. Here’s how scientists are working to improve them"; "Tuvalu’s Sinking Reality: How Climate Change Is Threatening the Small Island Nation"; "Cook jumps to defence of green lawyers as Dutton vows to end funding"; "Australia’s black summer bushfires ripped billions from the tourism industry. Is global warming making the cost of natural disasters worse?"; "Does discussing geoengineering derail climate action? New study puts it to the test."; "In carbon terms, grass-feed beef is not the greenest choice"; "The Climate Parables - reporting from the future"; "Thousands of U.S. Cities Could Become Virtual Ghost Towns by 2100"; "Climate concerns prompt policy shifts among UK travel managers"; "‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show"; "Smartphone app can help you track your climate actions"; "Denial or Action – Nothing in Between"; "Woodside’s Scarborough pipeline broken in dangerous offshore incident"; "Is clean hydrogen a climate solution? Depends how it’s made — and used"; "Already stretched hospitals take on more ambulance call-outs in heatwaves, new Griffith University research finds"; "Climate in the spotlight at WEF"; "What it will take to make clean energy affordable — for everyone"; "Plug-in hybrids vs. electric cars: We did the math on which is better for you"; "Biden publishes watered-down gas stove efficiency rule"; "See the moment climate activists throw soup at the ‘Mona Lisa’ in Paris"; "Climate is on the Ballot Around the World"; "Rare swallowtail butterfly suffers worst summer since records began"; "American imagination needs an adrenaline shot. Here’s how I’ll deliver it."; "When Language Fails Us and the Moment"; "High schoolers build solar car that can go 70 miles an hour"; "Climate scientist Mark Maslin: ‘We have all the technology we need to move to a cleaner, renewable world’"; "Other countries believe UK is ‘slowing its climate ambitions’, CCC warns"; "Parking apps are sweeping Australia’s cities. Here’s what you may not know about them"; "Renewable projects are getting built faster – but there’s even more need for speed"; "Global clean energy investment ‘not nearly sufficient’ to be on track for net zero by 2050"; "How Best to Educate People About Climate Change?"; "The emotional appeal of the populist right"; "High precipitation worsened by human-induced climate change"; "15 million Americans under flood watch as rain drenches Northeast"; "Evacuations underway in northeast Illinois after ice jam break on river causes significant flooding"; "Allowing duck hunting to continue in Victoria is shameful and part of a disturbing trend"; "Energy Agency Sees Peaks in Global Oil, Coal and Gas Demand by 2030"; "The United States is producing more oil than any country in history"; "Critical Bristol Bay habitat permanently protected"; "How One Senator Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan"; "Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company"; "The 3D-Printed Affordable Housing of the Future Will Be Recyclable"; "Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds"; "EU will force cosmetic companies to pay to reduce microplastic pollution"; "The 100-Year Extinction Panic Is Back, Right on Schedu