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A dive instructor has recorded his ‘special moment’ with a humpback whale.

Hydrogen is hailed as a new clean fuel, but little attention has been paid to the potential environmental challenges presented by the energy shift. Graeme Pearman, Professorial Fellow, Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Michael Prather, Distinguished Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Environmentalist Dr Stephen Marsh-Smith led efforts to establish a network of river trusts.

MV Wakashio ran aground on coral reef on 25 July and is now leaking oil.

People enhancing their gardens during lockdown may not realise some plants have insecticides.

A chronic dependence on high property prices is at the the root of the problem – and the government has no imperative to fix it

The Tories’ proposals to overhaul the planning system in England are well-timed, strategically impressive – and utterly disastrous. One of the first big examples of the kind of reform the landslide election victory now allows them to get away with, they are also using the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic to further limit scrutiny of their plans.

But even this red-tape blitz does nothing whatsoever to solve the real problem with housing: a crippling dependence on high property values that has backed the nation into a corner, with neither the government nor the construction industry having any real imperative to build a way out of it.

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President’s eldest son opposes controversial Pebble mine at headwaters of Bristol Bay, home to world’s largest wild salmon run

A surprise intervention from Donald Trump Jr has breathed life into efforts to protect the biggest remaining wild salmon run on the planet.

Earlier this week, Trump Jr expressed his opposition to the controversial Pebble mine at the headwaters of Alaska’s Bristol Bay. The move breaks with the Trump administration’s efforts to advance the mine’s development.

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The Olive Ridley turtles are part of conservationists’ attempts to boost the population and promote environmental protection

More than 10,000 baby turtles were released into the sea off the Indonesian island of Bali, as part of conservationists’ attempts to boost the population of a vulnerable species and promote environmental protection.

Conservation groups carried crates each full of dozens of tiny turtles to the island’s Gianyar beach on Friday and encouraged local people and volunteers to line up on the sand and release the hatchlings together.

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Alicia Ramsay was hit by humpback whale’s fin days after two others injured swimming at tourist hotspot Ningaloo reef

A woman snorkelling on Ningaloo Reef, on the north-west coast of Western Australia, has become the third person to be injured by a humpback whale there in less than a week.

The woman, Alicia Ramsay, 30, was flown to Royal Perth hospital with rib fractures on Thursday after being hit by the whale, which was swimming nearby with its calf.

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Mauritius declares a state of emergency after Japanese-owned carrier MV Wakashio starts leaking oil.

Keeping Covid out of Antarctica means little research will be done on the continent in 2020-2021.

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Compliance entities grew their position by the largest amount since late May as speculators made slight reductions to their net length in the WCI cap-and-trade scheme, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

The EU will need to overcome major competitiveness concerns and devise additional incentives beyond the EU ETS to help meet its 2050 net zero emissions goal, according to a recent study.

A delayed hydroelectric transmission line may have created tighter fundamentals in the Nova Scotia cap-and-trade market and led to the programme’s first auction settling 20% above the auction price floor, according a trader.

Carbon market allowances can be bought by financial institutions to help align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement, investors managing more than $16 trillion said this week in an endorsement that further boosts prospects for carbon as an asset class.

The National Park Service has warned against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack ‘even if the friendship has run its course’

There are a few potential reactions to being attacked by a bear – stand your ground and attempt to scare it off, run away or perhaps curl up into the fetal position and hope for the best.

The US government has now, however, officially advised against the most cowardly option: pushing over a slower friend to save yourself.

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The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including a giant pangolin and a tiny hummingbird

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A California-based speculator registered in the RGGI CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) this week, becoming the eighth financial participant to do so this year, data shows.

EUAs briefly dropped below €26 early on Friday, but climbed back into positive territory after the auction and hit an intraday high on US monthly jobs figures.