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A federal judge rejects Apache tribal members’ request to halt the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper mining company

Efforts to prevent a sacred Native American site from being destroyed by a copper mine received a setback yesterday, when a federal judge rejected Apache tribal members’ request to halt the site’s transfer to a a multi-national mining company.

While US district judge Steven Logan acknowledged that the mine would “close off a portal to the Creator forever and will completely devastate the Western Apaches’ lifeblood”, he said the activist group Apache Stronghold lacked legal standing in the case since it represented tribal individuals rather than a tribal government.

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Community forest projects have seen a surge in volunteers keen to reduce CO2 emissions by creating new woodlands

The UK may be in the grip of a winter lockdown but in one village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales the local climate-change group has been busy.

Plans are afoot to plant hundreds of trees on land surrounding Newton-le-Willows, in lower Wensleydale, in an effort to tackle the climate crisis. According to scientists, planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere.

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Verra is looking for a regional Market Development Manager to lead the strategy and promotion of these standards to respond to growing opportunities in Europe.

Exclusive: Although scientists recommended otherwise, Trump officials favored political allies over endangered animals, internal emails show

Federal scientists and regulators repeatedly complained they were sidelined by Donald Trump’s administration when they warned of risks to wildlife posed by a California water management plan, according to newly unveiled documents.

The plan, finalized in late 2019, favored the former president’s political allies – farmers upset with environmental protections that kept them from receiving more irrigation water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the hub of California’s water network.

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A project in Edinburgh is aiming to boost numbers after a drastic decline in the bird's population.

Lazer Sandford says subterranean tactics are likely to feature in new wave of climate emergency protests

An environmental activist who spent 12 days in a tunnel network underneath Euston Square Gardens in central London says the protest is likely to be the first of a new wave against the climate emergency using subterranean tactics.

Speaking exclusively to the Guardian in his first interview since leaving the tunnel network on 6 February, Lachlan Sandford, 20, known as Lazer, said the protest to raise awareness about the environmental destruction that activists believe the high-speed rail link HS2 will cause would not be a one-off.

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Exclusive: US chains Walmart, Costco and Kroger selling Brazilian beef produced by JBS linked to destruction of Brazilian rainforest

Three of the biggest US grocery chains sell Brazilian beef produced by a controversial meat company linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, an investigation has revealed.

Food giants Walmart, Costco and Kroger – which together totalled net sales worth more than half a trillion dollars last year – are selling Brazilian beef products imported from JBS, the world’s largest meat company, which has been linked to deforestation.

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Department of Environment and Science says damage to boat indicates crocodile’s involvement ‘highly likely’

Human remains have been found during a search for a missing fisherman on a tropical Queensland island, as the hunt for a killer crocodile continues.

Police, SES and wildlife officers have been searching for the missing 69-year-old since he went fishing in a creek on Hinchinbrook Island about 3pm on Thursday.

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The instrument takes images of dust storms, frost deposits and minerals on the Red Planet's surface.

The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme.

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Financial entities continued to ramp up their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings ahead of next week’s WCI auction, as regulated entities cut their holdings amid rising secondary market prices, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Organization: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Position: Intern (m/f/d) for Climate Finance and Carbon Pricing/Markets in East Africa Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda Deadline for Application: 24 February 2021

A methane inhibitor given to cattle can reduce methane emissions by up to 80% and increase the supply of carbon offsets from related protocols, according to a new study released Friday.

Two California environmental agency officials and a pair from an independent market watchdog group will discuss improvements to the state’s WCI-modelled cap-and-trade programme at a Senate oversight hearing next week, but some advocates are seeking to delay the meeting, regulatory sources said.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including developments in Oregon and Massachusetts.

The best of the week’s wildlife pictures, from the swans that cancelled their flight to the Arctic due to Storm Darcy to the bears liberated from captivity to walk free in the wild

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EUAs rebounded to hit a new record above €40 on Friday, clawing back ground lost late yesterday and this morning as traders dismissed the prospects of regulators curbing speculative trade anytime soon.

Australian Antarctic Division will drill 3,000 metres deep in bid to improve ancient climate records and future models

Antarctic scientists are close to finalising a drilling location deep in the frozen continent’s interior that could reveal a continuous record of the Earth’s climate going back 1.5 million years.

After almost a decade of work, scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division are close to pinpointing a place to drill an ice core almost 3,000-metres deep.

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Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems

La Niña has been good to the backyards and farmlands of much of eastern Australia. Cooler, wetter conditions have led to a flourishing of lush grass, trees and – unfortunately – weeds.

With so many more people working from home, the joy of gazing out of the home office window has turned to dread as the eye alights on knee-high greenery, terrifying tangles of blackberry, pink heads of scotch thistle, and possibly the occasional triffid.

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