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Italy on Saturday ordered the closure of all non-essential factories as it struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

The London-based start-up expands its network with a Soyuz launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan

Series of before and after images spark renewed calls for Victoria to urgently phase out native timber logging

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Sifting through diamond samples, geologists find unexpected evidence of a billion-year-old continent.

Chris Packham says nature can help during self-isolation and considers coronavirus's environmental impact.

Video shared on social media shows clear and calm water in Venice as animals take advantage of the lockdown in Italy to move into usually crowded spaces. Dolphins and wild boar have been spotted as ports and roads have been quiet as the country remains under strict quarantine at least until 3 April

• 'Nature is taking back Venice': wildlife returns to tourist-free city

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Speculators trimmed their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings by nearly 10 million allowances earlier this week amid growing concerns about a coronavirus pandemic reducing compliance demand under the WCI-linked carbon market, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.

The EU should extend the ETS to its eastern neighbours rather than imposing a carbon border adjustment that risks breaching a longstanding treaty linking energy markets, the head of the region's energy watchdog told Carbon Pulse on Friday.

The second quarterly WCI carbon auction of the year on May 20 will feature 66.2 million current and future vintage permits available for purchase, as the coronavirus pandemic and economic fallout raise concerns that the sale will be undersubscribed for the first time in three years.

EU member states and the UK handed out a further 8.5 million free carbon allowances to industrial emitters over the past two weeks, according to updated data released late Friday by the European Commission.

Leaders and unions concerned about acute labour shortage suggest retraining those put out of work

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Farming leaders have raised concerns about a lack of available labour because of the coronavirus, with one calling for a “land army” to be recruited from people put out of work by the crisis.

Restrictions in place because of the virus are likely to prevent many of the 60,000 seasonal labourers who come to the UK each year to work on farms from travelling, and the supply of domestic workers is also expected to be reduced.

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California Carbon Allowances (CCA) retreated beneath $13.00 on Friday morning as rising concerns about plummeting WCI-capped emissions and higher margin rates forced additional selling.

Greg Clark, the Commons Science Select Committee chair, praises government use of expert advice.

One defendant did not attend hearing into last year’s protests as she was self-isolating

Dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters failed to attend their court hearings after the campaign group told them to stay away due to the coronavirus crisis.

Forty-nine people were due to appear at City of London magistrates court on Friday charged in connection with a series of environmental demonstrations held in the capital last October.

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Germany will take into account instances where EU ETS compliance deadlines have not been met as a result of the coronavirus outbreak and could grant clemency in some cases, the government announced on Friday.

The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including a rare kākāpō and orphaned chimps

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EUA extended their rebound into a second day on Friday, clawing back some of this week's massive losses caused by the coronavirus, as financial markets stabilised somewhat to digest the effect of government stimulus measures.

The Committee on Climate Change are seeking a high-performing policy analyst, ideally with existing energy and climate expertise to work on the organisation’s internationally-focused work programme, which is focused on supporting efforts to raise the global ambition on tackling climate change ahead of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2020.

Survey said proposed Western Link threatens endangered barbastelles in Wensum Valley

An ecological report revealing that a new road would imperil one of Britain’s rarest mammals was rewritten to remove the warning.

The proposed Western Link road in Norwich will cut through a maternity roost of barbastelle bats and put at risk a wider “super colony” that lives and feeds in the Wensum Valley.

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