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Howard Hyland has lived next to the Whanganui river for his whole life. He runs the Whanganui River outrigger canoe club and understands that 'we've got to stop polluting the river'.

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New Zealanders who live close to the Whanganui river, which has been given legal personhood, speak of how important it is to them. 'How we look after it belongs to all of us'.

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Coalition says approvals take three and a half years, the reality can be longer, putting threatened species at risk

Australia’s national environment law is under review, an exercise the government has said is aimed at cutting “green tape”.

Scott Morrison and the environment minister, Sussan Ley, announced the review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act last month. It is a statutory review of the act that occurs every 10 years.

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The minke whale was discovered on Friday by a patrol boat under Battersea Bridge

An eight-foot whale was washed up on the shore of the Thames yesterday, where it was found by a patrol boat under Battersea Bridge.

The minke whale was found on Friday evening at about 10pm by a Port of London Authority boat, but is not yet known how the creature came to arrive in London, or why it died.

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The mammal, believed to be a minke whale, was found below Battersea Bridge in London.

French hunters claim tradition justifies their exemption from EU rules. But with many species endangered, there is growing pressure for a ban

It is early morning in the heart of Provence, and somewhere behind the tall black pine trees a rousing dawn chorus begins. We are crouching out of sight among the rosemary bushes and wild asparagus listening to the melodic musical phrases of song thrushes and blackbirds.

This is Marcel Pagnol country, rich in flora and fauna and of exceptional natural beauty; but there is no sign of the singing birds anywhere in the rustling foliage, trees or sky.

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The Hollywood actor dismisses Jair Bolsonaro's claim he "gave money to set the Amazon on fire".

Denmark’s industrial pig farms are stunningly productive, but there is another side to their success

Last year, Ole Kjaer was the number one pig farmer in Denmark. Unsurprisingly, in the land of Danish bacon, this is a pretty hotly contested award.

The biggest factor in his high profit rate? The astonishing productivity of his pigs. Each of Kjaer’s sows produces an average of 41 piglets a year.

In the UK, the average sow produces 25.8 pigs a year. In the US that number rises to 26.4. But in Denmark, the world’s laboratory for industrial pig farming, the average sow produces 33.3 piglets – and some farmers, like Kjaer, manage to push that figure even higher. Some believe that one day they could even reach the magic number of 50.

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In April 2019, Australian Quarterly looked at research in Antarctica and the continent’s key role in controlling the climate of the southern hemisphere. The coverage included this Ode to Antarctica by Dean of Science at UNSW, Emma Johnston.

Officials from nearly 200 government arrive at COP25 in Madrid next week to hammer out the rules for international emissions trade under the Paris Agreement, with several testing issues remaining from last year when disagreements nearly threw off a wider deal on the 2015 pact.

NSW threatens (again) to walk away from Basin Plan; The wool industry votes for change; Dairy farmers disappointed with code of conduct; SA's move to lift GM moratorium blocked.

Genuine fascists remain on the political margins, but we can increasingly imagine the space that eco-fascism might occupy

Earlier this year, when the fascist responsible for the El Paso massacre cited ecological degradation as part motivation for his killing spree, many considered him entirely deranged.

Eco-fascism sounds oxymoronic, a mashup of irreconcilable philosophies.

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Demand from emitters in Germany’s weekly auctions fell back in October after three above-average months, a government report shows.

Off Track presents the new ABC podcast 'GOOD GAME: how games play us' attempting to answer a BIG question: There's nothing like taking a walk out and about in nature — or is there?

Lawmakers in Luxembourg on Friday unveiled a draft law to raise the landlocked microstate's climate ambition.

Large turnouts in Madrid before UN summit, and in Sydney after deadly wildfires

Hundreds of thousands of young people have taken to the streets from Manila to Copenhagen as part of the latest student climate strikes to demand radical action on the unfolding ecological emergency.

School and university students around the world walked out of lessons on Friday with large turnouts in Madrid, where world leaders will gather on Monday for the latest UN climate summit, and Sydney, where protesters demanded action after devastating wildfires.

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A British oil and gas firm has lost its appeal over its €4 million EU ETS bill, with a London court rejecting the idea that UK emitters should be able to ‘net off’ allowances unallocated due to Brexit with their surrender obligations.

The pick of the best flora and fauna photos from around the world, including a giant tortoise and a painted stork

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Conservative parliamentary candidate Jesse Norman responds to the Guardian’s climate score article

Your article (Guardian climate score: how did your MP do?, 11 October) notes that “the approach used has certain limitations”. In fact it is massively flawed in its methods, and misleading and partial as a result. It takes just 16 climate-, energy- and environment-related votes in parliament among hundreds cast between 2008 and 2018, and adds a narrative based on the register of MPs’ interests.

But not all votes are the same, and many of these issues are highly contested. The landlord energy efficiency vote, for example, was on just one of many amendments to the 2011 energy bill, and reasonable people can (and did) disagree about its likely effect. Yet the climate score includes it, and yet somehow ignores the energy bill itself, a major piece of environmental legislation.

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