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Oxford University research argues for immediate closure of world's brown coal mines with new analysis suggesting they're a net drain on the global economy.

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About half the flights young men take each year are for stag dos - and that generates a lot of emissions.

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Here's a headline you wouldn't normally expect to read in Murdoch media, although they did manage to get some key things wrong.

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Ammonia, the key ingredient of fertiliser, can be burned in ships’ engines in place of polluting diesel.

Neoen to seek liquidated damages over delays to ground-breaking wind and battery project in Victoria, highlighting crisis in renewables industry.

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WCI traders expect the first quarterly sale of the year to settle close to the secondary market level due to its smaller size, the volume of auction indexed futures contracts purchased to date, and greater overall demand.

In a warming world, trees can play a major role in keeping cities and your home cool. If you plan it right, they can even save you money and protect your home from bushfires. Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The ravenous pests have devoured crops and pasture threatening a food crisis in East Africa.

Oregon Democrat leaders are delaying the state’s cap-and-trade bill timeline to allow for greater discussion in the House and incorporate several amendments to the Senate version, though ETS proponents still expect the precursor to a floor vote to take place at the end of this week.

We must be able to trust the integrity of scientific research as we work to protect our families and our planet

Not again. News out of Europe last week revealed that more than 20 scientific studies submitted to regulators to prove the safety of the popular weedkilling chemical glyphosate came from a large German laboratory that has been accused of fraud and other wrongdoing.

The findings come amid global debate over whether or not glyphosate causes cancer and other health problems and if regulators and chemical companies proclaiming the chemical’s safety actually have credible science on their side.

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Scientists propose best use of funds pledged by Amazon founder to fight climate crisis

Amazon revenue to restore the Amazon rainforest? A political war chest in the US to counter the pernicious influence of big oil? Or research funding for “moonshot” technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere?

The world’s richest man is never going to be short of suggestions for how to spend money, but Jeff Bezos’s announcement of a new $10bn (£7.67bn) Earth Fund to fight global heating has raised the question of what is the best bang for a climate buck.

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Researchers describe the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade.

The US space agency's next rover will hunt for life's traces among the rocks of the Red Planet.

EUAs dipped back below €25 early on Tuesday as fears about the impact of the coronavirus continued to weigh on global markets. 

The Beijing municipal government on Tuesday ordered emitters set to be included in the national carbon market to stick to a scheduled deadline for submitting 2019 emission data despite the major disruptions caused by the coronavirus, a move seen as China attempting to proceed as planned with the ETS.

The deadliness of the virus advances progressively with the age of the patient, research suggests.

South Korean facilities hosting carbon offset projects under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism will be brought into the domestic emissions trading scheme from next year, the government has announced.

The Atacama in northern Chile is the driest desert in the world, and may be the oldest. It also holds 40% of the world's lithium – an essential ingredient in the rechargeable batteries used in green technology. Indigenous leaders and scientists say Chile's plans to feed a global green energy boom with Atacama lithium will kill the desert. As violent protests rock the country, they are fighting for the mining to stop 

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Experiment revealed increased wind speeds reduced the efficiency of their foraging

A hardworking honey bee might feel aggrieved to be tricked into a garden shed to feed from a fake flower. Worse, she is blasted by a cheap household fan. And then timed to see how many fake flowers she can visit in 90 seconds.

But the honey bees’ tormentors are trying to help them: their ordeal is a controlled experiment that reveals how high wind speeds significantly reduce the efficiency of their foraging.

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