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EV Charging Stations
In France you can get around $18,000 for trading in a new electric car for a petrol or diesel one.
Gas fueled transport makes up almost 20% of Australia's carbon Emissions.
Norway and South Korea both have plans to completely ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2025.
A quarter of a billion dollars is being invested in electric cars/ charging stations to ensure that we are doing practical things.
Pacific Islands Climate Change
Scientists say that sea levels have risen 30cm in the past 30 years.
The middle part of the Solomon Islands with 100 plus houses are ow covered with the sea.
A recent climate change report says kid in the Pacific are 10 times more likely to experience extreme weather events than their parents.
At COP26 there was a lot of talk about what wealthy nations should be doing to support the countries that are at most risk from climate change.
Life in Space
The closest thing that astronauts use to clean themselves is a simple pack of wet wipes.
When it comes to what you can eat in space there are some definite don'ts. Like some food can either float away and can be stuck in small gaps.
In 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth travelling through 16 Sunsets and Sunrises.
You can still heat things up and or use water to restore dehydrated food.
Koala Fitness Trackers
A fitness tracker is used to measure a koala's heart rate.
If the heart rate is going up, that could be the koala is stressed by something in his environment.
Koalas have got an exceptional sense of hearing and sense of smell but their eyesight is very poor.
Drones are used in parts of Australia as a non-invasive way to keep track of koala populations, instead of catching and tagging.
Kangaroo Island Dunnarts
The Dunnarts that survived the 2019-2020 bushfires are now in danger from feral predators like feral cats.
From the state bushfires almost two thirds of the land was burnt.
The Western River Refuge is a patch of land that's fenced off and feral predator free.
They keep the Dunnarts and other critically endangered species away from all the feral predators which have led them to a cause of making a fence with a floppy top. If the feral predators' try to climb up they will be electrocuted.