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Over the course of the week, three pairs of shoes bite the dust, soles detached from uppers in the 45 degree heat, one microphone's glue melts and there are about a billion bush flies drinking from sweaty backs. But despite the heat, Karajarri country has a draw towards it stronger than the pull of the sun.

A bipartisan group of US senators from the Northeast unveiled a bill Thursday to encourage the expansion of the country’s two regional cap-and-trade programmes, including by creating a new division with the EPA.

The satellite that will maintain the "gold standard" measurement of ocean height is nearly complete.

The pick of this week’s best flora and fauna photos from around the world, including a sleepy tiger and sea goldies

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The Environment Agency is worried about further flooding this winter after near-record rainfall.

The government says leaf blowers are "fatal to insects", which are in dramatic decline in Germany.

EUAs extended their one-month low early on Friday as prices reached a key technical support level below €23.50 before recovering.

Activists travel by canoe in risky mission to highlight threats to rainforest and learn from indigenous communities

The search for solutions to the climate crisis does not get any more radical, far-reaching or deeper into nature than the alternative climate conference currently taking place in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

In the past few days, European climate strikers and Extinction Rebellion youth activists have travelled by motor canoe deep into a region known as Terra do Meio to share ideas with indigenous leaders, forest dwellers, environmental activists and Brazil’s leading climate scientists, anthropologists and archaeologists. The Russian punk anarchist Nadya Tolokonnikova, of Pussy Riot, was also set to join the gathering along with local artists and Catholic bishops.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Scientists say rising temperatures are having a big influence on the scale and frequency of extreme weather events.

After some frustrating technical glitches, the land speed racer is upping its pace again.

EU’s lending arm to become first ‘climate bank’ by ending financing of oil, gas, and coal projects after 2021

The European Investment Bank has agreed to phase out its multibillion-euro financing for fossil fuels within the next two years to become the world’s first ‘“climate bank”.

The bank will end its financing of oil, gas, and coal projects after 2021, a policy that will make the EU’s lending arm the first multilateral lender to rule out financing for projects that contribute to the climate crisis.

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Millions of tonnes belched into atmosphere as policymakers overlook threat, researchers find

The methane emissions leaking from the world’s coalmines could be stoking the global climate crisis at the same rate as the shipping and aviation industries combined.

Coalmines are belching millions of tonnes of methane into the atmosphere unchecked, because policymakers have overlooked the rising climate threat, according to new research.

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America Recycles Day promoted by EPA is brainchild of not-for-profit backed by companies that produce plastic products

America’s government-backed national recycling awareness day is being used as cover by large corporations that are churning out enormous volumes of plastic that end up strewn across landscapes, rivers and in the ocean, critics have said.

The second annual America Recycles Day event on Friday is being vigorously promoted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a way to encourage Americans to recycle more.

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Central banks are increasingly taking into account climate change in deciding how to invest. John Hawkins, Assistant professor, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

JinkoSolar’s motion for summary determination of non-infringement will be granted by ITC JUDGE within two weeks.

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Australia will hold the next Emissions Reduction Fund auction in March next year, when for the first time the cost-capping benchmark price will be removed, the Clean Energy Regulator said Friday.

A $1.9 million agricultural waste to bioenergy project that will power electric vehicles within the Bundaberg Regional Council area has been backed through the Palaszczuk Government’s $5 million Queensland Waste to Biofutures Fund (W2B Fund).

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The Clean Energy Regulator has announced today that the next Emissions Reduction Fund auction will be held on 25–26 March 2020.

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Australia to take increasingly isolationist approach to climate action, as Morrison defies advice that climate diplomacy is good for the economy and the planet.

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