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Headwinds for green revolution, Football Australia’s Fifa deadline, Fauci takes the fifth

theguardian.com · 13dShare

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here , and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Morning everyone. Despite Australians’ enthusiasm for installing home solar panels and batteries, a survey shows today that anti-wind power campaigns are undermining wider popular support for the transition to green energy. We have analysis on how the revelations at the NSW Icac are pushing the Liberals into dangerous territory, Anthony Fauci declining to give evidence to the US Senate, and “Clicky Ponting” suspended amid a local cricket scandal in the UK. Bat signal | A sudden decline in critically endangered bats is troubling experts , who recorded about 5,000 fewer southern bent-wing bats than usual at Naracoorte’s “bat cave” in South Australia this summer. Electric shock | Organised campaigns against wind and solar energy have proved “extremely effective” in undermining support for renewable energy but enthusiasm for electric vehicles has jumped

First report: The population of an endangered Australian bat suddenly dropped by up to 16%. No one knows why — theguardian.com, 13d