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Insects are vital to sustaining life on Earth – and their numbers are falling fast. So consider ditching the fly spray and see what you can do to help. David Yeates, Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Katja Hogendoorn, University of Adelaide Manu Saunders, Research fellow, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Shanxi has become the latest Chinese province to launch a programme for generating forest carbon credits, local media reported, a move that could see its offsets gain eligibility in the nation’s ETS and even eventually in ICAO’s CORSIA as part of China’s voluntary carbon programme.

The Russian leader says the US "militarisation" of space means Moscow has to respond.

In the 'largest study of its kind' researchers studied 70,000 bird specimens over a 40-year period.

Former Greens leader and four other life members express ‘profound concern’ for 43-year-old organisation after staff sacked

A group of Wilderness Society life members led by the former Greens leader Bob Brown are calling for an independent review into the conservation group after it recorded a $1.7m deficit last financial year, forcing it to sack campaign and other staff.

In a letter to the organisation’s directors, Brown and four other life members expressed “profound concern” for the 43-year-old organisation, which they say is “one of the world’s most important defenders of wild and natural country”.

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Findings confirm reliability of projections of temperature changes over last 50 years

Climate models have accurately predicted global heating for the past 50 years, a study has found.

The findings confirm that since as early as 1970, climate scientists have had a solid fundamental understanding of the Earth’s climate system and the ability to project how it will respond to continued increases in the greenhouse effect. Since climate models have accurately anticipated global temperature changes so far, we can expect projections of future warming to be reliable as well.

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A group of Extinction Rebellion activists dressed as bees ‘swarmed’ the electric-powered Lib Dem battlebus in south London and quizzed the Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson, about her party’s approach to the climate crisis.

The said they were ‘buzzing around’ political parties’ campaign battlebuses ‘demanding the climate and ecological emergency is top of the agenda this election’

• Extinction Rebellion protester glues himself to Lib Dem battlebus

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Scotland court ruling comes after climate protesters boarded two oil rigs in October

Greenpeace has been banned from carrying out climate protests on North Sea oil rigs after the oil giant Shell won a Scottish court order.

A judge in Edinburgh granted Shell an interim interdict, similar to an injunction, banning Greenpeace from occupying four of its rigs in the Brent field 85 miles north-east of Shetland, after its activists boarded two decommissioned rigs in October.

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Nikki Henderson, who helped Greta Thunberg get to Madrid, reveals what happened on their 19 day journey.

Activist dressed as insect targets battlebus as XR tries to push environment up agenda

An Extinction Rebellion protester dressed as a bee has glued himself to the Liberal Democrats’ battlebus, as the environmental group intervenes in the general election.

The group said it was “buzzing around” political parties’ campaign battlebuses on Wednesday “demanding the climate and ecological emergency is top of the agenda this election”.

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UN officials produced a slightly thinner new version of text for an international emissions trade rulebook under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 on Wednesday, though negotiators showed few signs of compromise in initial exchanges.

Rangers on the Farne Islands in Northumberland use drones to keep track of the growing grey seal population.

Cleveland magistrates court decision described as ‘a Queensland first’ and out of step with other similar cases

Three Extinction Rebellion members will remain in custody for more than two weeks, after they were denied bail by a Queensland magistrate.

Members of the activist group said they believed the decision in the Cleveland magistrates court to refuse bail was “a Queensland first” and out of step with other similar cases.

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Fans of wildlife photographs can pick their favourite for the Lumix-sponsored award from 25 images pre-selected by the Natural History Museum in London. The institution whittled down its shortlist from more than 48,000 submissions from 100 countries. Voting ends on 4 February

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Members of WeShutDown stand trial for blockading the Weisweiler plant. Some call it ‘ecoterrorism’, while others label it a masterstroke in the art of protest

A group of climate activists who shut down a lignite coal power plant in Germany said they had no regrets and were prepared to repeat the action, as they awaited the conclusion of their trial.

The activists from the group WeShutDown blockaded the Weisweiler power plant near Aachen for several hours on 15 November 2017, by halting its coal-carrying conveyor belts and diggers. The energy company RWE, which owns the plant, claims the shutdown cost it €2m.

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Europe’s environmental watchdog gives warning as climate crisis continues

Pursuing economic growth at the expense of the environment is no longer an option as Europe faces “unprecedented” challenges from climate chaos, pollution, biodiversity loss and the overconsumption of natural resources, according to a report from Europe’s environmental watchdog.

Europe was reaching the limits of what could be achieved by gradual means, by making efficiencies and small cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, with “transformational” change now necessary to stave off the impacts of global heating and environmental collapse, warned Hans Bruyninckx, executive director of the European Environment Agency.

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Wind and solar investors warn of rising costs and impacts on grid stability if the energy market rule maker does not change its approach on transmission losses.

The post Wind and solar developers plead with AEMC to reconsider loss factor decision appeared first on RenewEconomy.

APA officially opens Badgingarra solar farm in Western Australia wheatbelt region, where it is co-located with a larger wind farm.

The post APA officially opens new 20MW solar plant next to W.A. wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Samantha Tough appointed as Horizon Power chairperson, with Peter Clough appointed as a non-executive director of Synergy.

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Carbon emissions will hit a record high for the second year in a row, but there is a small silver lining: the rate of emissions growth has slowed dramatically. Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor, University of East Anglia, University of East Anglia Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Pierre Friedlingstein, Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter Robbie Andrew, Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Rob Jackson, Chair, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, globalcarbonproject.org, Stanford University Vanessa Haverd, Senior research scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.