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The Canadian government announced Tuesday the creation of an independent climate institute to deliver advice and analysis on clean growth and emissions reduction strategies, including carbon pricing.

The northeast US RGGI carbon market will auction off more than 13.2 million carbon allowances on June 5, the market’s regulator said Tuesday.

The report recommends increasing fish movements, removing less water from the river system during droughts, and better monitoring of the low oxygen levels, high water temperatures, and algal blooms that can kill fish.

Fish deaths at the lower Darling can happen again. Here's what we can do about it. Robert Vertessy, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne Fran Sheldon, Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Griffith University Lee Baumgartner, Associate Research Professor (Fisheries and River Management), Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University Nick Bond, Professor of Freshwater Ecology and Director of the Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, La Trobe University Simon Mitrovic, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs settled at their highest for over a decade on Tuesday as stronger gas prices favoured bulls in a late surge that could see carbon clear 2018's peak tomorrow.

The European Commission proposed Tuesday that EU members drop their long-standing veto power over energy taxes to help ensure the legacy of its energy union and possibly one day enable an EU-wide carbon tax.

Another investment bank has cut its medium-term estimates for EU carbon prices, though it warned that a looming shortage in allowances will be worse than it anticipated.

Ecologists have data showing female has settled and males in area may lead to mating.

The misty páramos in the Andes that supply water to tens of millions of people are under threat. Now their mystery could be solved

In the land where the legend of El Dorado began, the race is on to solve the mystery of a vital 21st-century treasure – the water that tens of millions of people rely upon across northern South America. “It’s blue gold, and we are looking for it,” says Mauricio Diazgranados, a Colombian botanist.

The misty and marshy páramo landscapes that sit above the tree line and below the snow caps of the soaring Andes peaks are known as the living factories that ensure a steady flow of clean water to the region’s growing population.

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If emissions continue to rise at current rate, ice will have all but disappeared from Europe’s Alpine valleys by end of century

Two-thirds of the ice in the glaciers of the Alps is doomed to melt by the end of the century as climate change forces up temperatures, a study has found.

Half of the ice in the mountain chain’s 4,000 glaciers will be gone by 2050 due to global warming already baked in by past emissions, the research shows. After that, even if carbon emissions have plummeted to zero, two-thirds of the ice will still have melted by 2100.

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New Zealand’s government-appointed interim Climate Change Commission will recommend bringing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilisers into the country's ETS while imposing a carbon levy on farming emissions from other sources, its chairman said Tuesday.

Exclusive: trustees reconsidering rules of investments to take account of climate change risk

Parliament’s pension fund trustees are to reconsider the rules of their investments to take account of the risk of climate change, in a first for MPs’ finances.

While stopping short of a promise to fully divest from fossil fuels, the pledge by the trustees marks an important first step towards assessing and reducing the effect of the pension fund’s investments – which are ultimately paid for by the taxpayer – on climate change.

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Wiebe Wakker, who drove from Amsterdam to Sydney, in an electric car says it's the latter.

The decision was always going to be controversial, but the very public pressure placed on her by National Party MPs has Labor and the Greens asking if she was bullied.

The near-3km-long Antarctic ice core should reveal the cause of a key shift in Earth's climate past.

When people build fences across semi-arid landscapes we cut off vital paths to seasonal food and water. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University Penny van Oosterzee, Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hawaii utility to call another tender seeking cheap solar and battery storage to replace coal and gas plants about to close down.

The post Hawaii aims for more cheap solar and battery storage to replace coal and gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Coalition, for first time in memory, says it "accepts the science" - but only a little bit, so it can advance the biggest ever coal mine in the country.

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The correlation of the feminine to nature, repressive for so long, can be a source of power

In the past few months I have started putting down roots. It’s a cliche but it’s literally what I’m doing. I spend my weekends transforming the tired old lawn into garden beds, layering woodchips, straw and horse shit I’ve shovelled from the paddocks next door into rich soil to grow my lettuces and kale. I have always loved gardening but now, more than ever, working with the earth has taken on an element of the spiritual.

As a teenager, like many suburban white girls, I got way into Wicca, that gentle, nature-centred neo-pagan religion beloved by would-be witches everywhere. Much later, in my early 20s, I revisited witchcraft, finding an unstructured feminine spirituality that helped me make sense of the world.

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