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Four bones found at Shanklin belonged to a new species of theropod dinosaur, a study finds.

A Quebec draft regulation will see the province harmonise the post-2020 allowance reserve price tiers of its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme with California’s approach, plus make other technical tweaks, according to documents posted Monday.

Garnaut to lead Sunshot towards renewable energy future and re-take control of Zen Energy a split from Sanjeev Gupta's Simec Group after just three years.

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The moment a chick hatches from its egg, maggots burrow into its skin to drink its blood, usually killing it. But scientists have found a way to stop the blood-sucking parasites. Fernanda Alves, PhD student, Australian National University Dejan Stojanovic, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Geothermal reservoirs supply more than 15% of New Zealand's electricity. The heat energy stored in geothermal fields is vast but not infinite. Susan Krumdieck, Professor and Director, Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The UK’s proposed emissions trading scheme is predicted to be oversupplied throughout its first decade, analysts have warned, which could mean a dimming of the country’s low-carbon investment signal after it departs the EU and its ETS this year.

South Korea’s cabinet advanced amendments on Tuesday to the country’s carbon market that will let financial institutions participate in the market starting next year.

Oregon Republicans are seeing an influx of cash from industries and timber companies ahead of the November general election, as the party looks to prevent Democrats from securing a quorum in both chambers and moving to introduce an ETS.

US biofuel credit (RIN) prices exacerbated their week-long slide on Tuesday due to fears that the EPA will approve numerous retroactive “gap filling” compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). 

Czechia utility CEZ is less heavily hedged than in recent years but its thermal power generation is holding up better than many of its peers amid COVID-19 restrictions, the company said in first-half results on Tuesday.  A Carbon Pulse subscription is required to read this content. Subscribe today to access our unrivalled news and intelligence, as […]

Ukraine must not work to establish its own ETS from 2025 as the country's imports may otherwise come under pressure from a planned EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), a Kyiv-based business association said on Tuesday.

EUAs failed to sustain an early move higher, falling back after bulls were unable to hold prices above €27 for the third time in four sessions.

The overarching project of my life has been making myself safe. But what is the point if everyone else is drowning and burning and starving?

• This is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020

I am descended from people who factor a flat tyre into a drive to the airport. I own a personal, portable water filter, just in case. I am someone who patrols her boundaries. I am a list writer, a timetable checker.

The overarching project of my life has been making myself safe. No alarms; no surprises. It has become legend in my family that, at age 11, I ruined a holiday by demanding we move out of our accommodation at the foot of what everyone told me was a dormant volcano, because I thought it was too dangerous. (The volcano did erupt, on my 35th birthday.)

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Exclusive: Walker Corporation says de-listing area of wetlands, which are a critical migratory bird habitat, was of ‘urgent national interest’

Walker Corporation lobbied former federal environment minister Josh Frydenberg to remove an area from internationally listed wetlands for its Toondah Harbour apartment and retail development, government documents show.

Documents obtained from the environment department by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws show the company used a meeting with Frydenberg in August 2016 to stress the government had the power the remove part of the Moreton Bay Ramsar wetland as a matter of “urgent national interest”.

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Research could pave way for cheap supercapacitor storage of renewable energy

The humble house brick has been turned into a battery that can store electricity, raising the possibility that buildings could one day become literal powerhouses.

The new technology exploits the porous nature of fired red bricks by filling the pores with tiny nanofibres of a conducting plastic that can store charge. The first bricks store enough electricity to power small lights. But if their capacity can be increased, they may become a low-cost alternative to the lithium-ion batteries currently used.

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German Uniper reported a 36% drop in its EU ETS-covered output over the first half, it said on Tuesday, as its fossil fuel generation was increasingly squeezed by cleaner power while demand dropped due to coronavirus restrictions. 

I study the Arctic. The decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord is reprehensible – but we can’t give up hope

When you stand facing an exposed edge of permafrost, you can feel it from a distance.

It emanates a cold that tugs on every one of your senses. Permanently bound by ice year after year, the frozen soil is packed with carcasses of woolly mammoths and ancient ferns. They’re unable to decompose at such low temperatures, so they stay preserved in perpetuity – until warmer air thaws their remains and releases the cold that they’ve kept cradled for centuries.

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Animal stuck in shallow water at creek in Helford estuary is released back into the sea

A stranded dolphin has been saved after a five-hour rescue operation in Cornwall.

The mammal was stuck in shallow water at Mawgan Creek in the Helford estuary, near Helston, an area well known for being a stranding trap for dolphins with many tidal muddy creeks.

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The Planet Earth-observation company releases new imagery of Canada's broken Milne Ice Shelf.

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