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The discovery that the badger-like animal lived alongside dinosaurs challenges ideas about mammals.

Plunging EU ETS emissions due to the COVID-19 crisis and other market forces will balloon the scheme's allowance surplus this year to the equivalent of around two years’ worth of demand, analysts have predicted.

In our latest instalment of the Carbon Pulse Conversations podcast, we speak to Marcus Ferdinand, head of European power and carbon analytics at ICIS, about what's driving EUAs at the moment, how the coronavirus crisis is impacting the EU ETS, and his forecasts for allowance prices.

AEMO says no technical issues to prevent operating at 75% renewables by 2025, but it does need the market and regulations to catch up and be flexible.

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Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will begin taking comments on its revised post-2020 RGGI regulation on Wednesday after opting not to hold public hearings due to the coronavirus pandemic.

EUAs once again flirted with sub-€20 levels on Wednesday despite the market comfortably absorbing a bumper auction, as data showed speculators were further building their net short positions.

Environmentalists say a misguided attempt to protect residents has damaged a sensitive ecosystem.

Devastated by hunting and logging, the chimps now face threats from coronavirus, says conservationist.

One of China’s leading bike-sharing brands has become the first in the country to earn compliance grade carbon credits for its business.

As the coronavirus lockdown makes wildlife more visible in our cities, biodiversity reporter Patrick Greenfield speaks to ecologist Dr Rana El-Sabaawi and evolutionary biologist Prof Menno Schilthuizen about what this means for the future of cities and how urban dwellers can become more involved with nature

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Fleet of 120 electric taxis offering hygienic transport alternative will launch in Sydney in coming weeks, the first in planned 2,000 fleet as part of a "Clean Air Taxi" initiative by new e-taxi platform ETaxiCo.

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China on Wednesday promoted vice minister Huang Runqiu to be its new ecology and environment (MEE) minister, a move observers say means preparation work for the national carbon market can continue but limits the ministry’s ability to shape policy.

The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) has selected its Nature Photographer of the Year 2020.

The winning image is part of a series of photographs taken in Dortmund’s north by Peter Lindel. Compared with many international nature photography hot spots, this region has little to offer. Lindel spent a lot of time and blood, sweat and tears working on this project on his doorstep. It is a beautiful statement about the long-term exploration of a single species and region.

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Fears pollution affecting cognition as crabs exposed to polyethylene struggle to select good homes

When it comes to moving home, hermit crabs are experts, often swapping shells for the optimal abode.

But now researchers have found that exposure to microplastics disrupts this key behaviour. The finds are the latest to suggest such pollution could be having an impact on the world’s marine creatures.

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Hannah Heath, Chief Strategy Officer, Nectr (Hanwha Energy), has been named the recipient of the 2020 Women in Renewables Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) scholarship.

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Massive $300M renewable hydrogen project secures investment funding set to accelerate Australia's green hydrogen capabilities.

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Scientists predict the explosive behaviour of two supermassive black holes almost to the hour.

This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers

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Do Not Resuscitate. This tag should be attached to the oil, airline and car industries. Governments should provide financial support to company workers while refashioning the economy to provide new jobs in different sectors. They should prop up only those sectors that will help secure the survival of humanity and the rest of the living world.

They should either buy up the dirty industries and turn them towards clean technologies, or do what they often call for but never really want: let the market decide. In other words, allow these companies to fail.

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Humans have an innate affinity with nature. Embracing this in your home while locked down may improve your productivity and health. Cris Brack, Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Aini Jasmin Ghazalli, Graduate student Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia's emissions in 2019 fell to their lowest level in four years, but we are still a long way from the cuts needed to meet the Paris Agreement targets.

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