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Few scientists think climate change will cause society to collapse any time soon - but some people are getting ready anyway.

Evidence of past underwater landslides suggests giant waves probably hit the British territory.

Infigen says revenue from new battery offsets impact of huge reduction in wind output caused by severing of the main transmission link to South Australia.

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Contracting group says dispute over who should carry the cost of delays at the biggest solar farm in NSW could head to arbitration.

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Researchers expected to find koalas killed by the fires. But they were heartbroken to find those that died afterwards from starvation, thirst or injury. Romane H. Cristescu, Posdoc in Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Celine Frere, Senior lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Our research into 45 years of print coverage of key initiatives for Indigenous self-determination reveals that black perspectives are rarely presented as legitimate

Ever since Captain James Cook evaded British instructions to take possession of the continent now known as Australia “with the consent of the natives”, the interests of settlers have dominated media reporting on Aboriginal people.

Our new research analysing 45 years of print media reporting of Aboriginal initiatives for self-determination has found that media have systematically and substantially failed – if not undermined and denied – Aboriginal aspirations for self-determination and for enduring political settlements.

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Endangered species have lost up to 82% of their habitat but Environment Protection Authority says logging of unburnt forest is legal

The NSW Forestry Corporation has continued to log unburnt forest that is habitat for some of the most imperilled species in the aftermath of the state’s bushfire crisis.

Logging operations have continued in the Styx River state forest on the north coast that is now remnant habitat for endangered species including the greater glider and the Hastings River mouse.

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Last week’s budget was a missed opportunity: we need to mobilise our attachment to country

When it comes to fighting climate change and its effects, both greens and conservatives pay far too much attention to localism, voluntarism, and corporate responsibility. All are valuable; none are adequate. If, as many environmentalists say, the struggle against global heating requires a sense of wartime emergency, then fighting it while chiefly relying on these assets is as if Britain fought the Second World War relying on the Home Guard.

Last week’s budget contained some useful steps to limit carbon emissions; but they are far too small, and offset by road construction and the failure to lift the freeze on fuel taxes brought in 10 years ago.

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The former ‘dirty old town’ has more energy-efficient homes, more green spaces, more recycling and lowest CO2 emissions, according to a new study

Salford may have been fondly dubbed a “dirty old town” by folk singer Ewan MacColl and depicted as full of smoky chimneys by LS Lowry, but new research has crowned it the greenest place to live in England and Wales.

The Greater Manchester city is more sustainable than places such as Brighton, where Caroline Lucas is Britain’s only Green party MP, and Bristol, a former European Green Capital, according to a study to be released later this week by the Centre for Thriving Places.

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From Greta Thunberg to oil firms, people are pushing for more trees to be planted - but why?

At top speed, Canadian Shelby Barber can plant more than 4,000 trees a day.

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NSW government targets $11.6 billion in investment, in stage one of its net zero strategy, along with a commitment to two additional Renewable Energy Zones.

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The ICAO Council on Friday endorsed six programmes in full and two others on a conditional basis to supply the UN body’s international aviation offset mechanism CORSIA, with those credits restricted to a five-year window.

The European Parliament is mulling an early bid to agree this year to include all ships using EU ports in the bloc's ETS, attempting to capitalise on the current heightened momentum for climate action, the Parliament’s lead lawmaker on the issue told Carbon Pulse on Friday.

The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including the last female white giraffe and boxing hares

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We need to rethink the idea that the hunger for new clothes ought to be sated immediately

Fashion operates on desire. How we dress feeds off cravings to be different as well as part of a tribe; to be en vogue but ahead of the pack. The message from the high street is that such wishes can be fulfilled, and fast fashion plays on the idea that hunger can be sated immediately. But to overcome such urges we need to reflect on the fragility of our planet. This means accepting that there is a better way to keep the pleasures of fashion open to all parts of society than promoting disposable clothes as desirable. This is not just about the high cost of the £4 dress; luxury retailers such as Louis Vuitton have offered small collections every two weeks.

The fashion industry has benefited from globalisation to mass-produce goods by externalising the costs of production in the form of human and environmental damage. Every year, 100bn new garments are produced by one out of six people worldwide. Yet only 2% of them earn a living wage. In this country it is an open secret that some garment factories are not paying the minimum wage.

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Crabs on Australia's Christmas Island are suspected of pinching some high-priced equipment.

The government's top scientists are ploughing a different furrow to that of many other countries.

The first RGGI auction of 2020 cleared in line with market expectations as New Jersey returned to the regional cap-and-trade programme eight years after the state left the power sector carbon market.