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The Kenyan capital city is facing water supply issues - how serious is the problem?

The Swedish climate activist joined more than 1,000 people for an afternoon of youth-led climate action in Los Angeles

Paradise is not what it used to be, as Greta Thunberg witnessed earlier this week. Today the town with a lovely name is best known for the apocalyptic fire that ripped through it last year, decimating nearly every home and killing 86 people.

This week California is once more in flames as fires rage in the north and south – a point that was not lost on the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who spoke at a rally in Los Angeles on Friday.

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Recent heatwaves in Britain has impacted all sorts of crops. Paul Olding describes the effect on his grapes.

Jessica Allen is investigating applying electrolysis to wood. The result is a high-value product, and less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Newcastle has a great opportunity to transition from the world’s biggest coal exporting port to one exporting hydrogen. Researchers at The University of Newcastle are looking at how it might be achieved.

Reese Halter has a novel idea for the offsets of Californian polluters.

Parliament is sending 30,000 invitations to people to take part in a citizen's assembly on climate change.

London and Scotland are the best places to find charging points, while Yorkshire is the worst.

Our fear of radiation from modern nuclear plants is unjustified argues Gerry Thomas.

Eddie Redmayne's new movie The Aeronauts is based on real events - but just how accurate is it?

Drilling for shale gas will cease in England - but the government stops short of an outright ban.

Victory for green groups follows damning scientific study and criticism from spending watchdog

The government has banned fracking with immediate effect in a watershed moment for environmentalists and community activists.

Ministers also warned shale gas companies it would not support future fracking projects, in a crushing blow to companies that had been hoping to capitalise on one of the new frontiers of growth in the fossil fuel industry.

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Growing use of diesel in utes and cars has offset nearly all the recent emissions gains from wind and solar in the main grid.

The post Australia’s surging diesel emissions from cars and utes cancel out wind and solar gains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Alberta has not committed to raise the province’s carbon price under its proposed output-based pricing system in line with Ottawa’s ‘backstop’ rate for 2021, as a provincial official said Friday that it would instead negotiate with the Canadian federal government on the topic.

Two Massachusetts-based generators have emitted more than their initial 2019 permit allocations under the state's Global Warming Solution Act (GWSA) carbon market through the third quarter, but surplus allowances in the programme could be minimising their need to go into the secondary market.

This week we get an inside tour of the controversial Cubbie Station and we find out why NT hay has been collected and sent to a croc farm.

The recent Whitsundays shark attack prompted the usual calls for lethal control measures, but would they have made any difference?

The terrifying triumph of the film Jaws was how its opening scene unfolded without a glimpse of the shark. Thrashing, screaming, spluttering. And the fear of a killer lurking beneath that has lingered in swimmers’ minds for decades.

Shark attacks remain exceptionally rare. But when one occurs off Australia’s coast, the reaction is often hysteria, as dramatic and phoney as when the fake shark finally did raise its head.

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Ultra-endurance athlete, aerodynamic wonder … and facing extinction. Why the bird who flies 30,000km a year needs Australia’s mudflats

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The ascent is vertical. Up, up and into the jet stream. If the conditions are not right up there it will come back down and wait. But if there is a good tailwind in the right direction it will begin an epic journey that will take it around the curvature of the Earth; from the Arctic Circle to the southern hemisphere.

Using the sun and stars as a compass, and navigating by the Earth’s magnetic field, recognising landmarks, the far eastern curlew will fly nonstop to the Yellow Sea, where it fuels up on the mudflats of north-east China.

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Annual carbon dioxide emissions from burning diesel increased by 21.7m tonnes between 2011 and 2018

Greenhouse gas emissions from diesel cars, utes and vans have risen sharply since 2011, effectively cancelling out the cut in pollution from new renewable energy replacing some coal plants.

A surge in ownership of diesel vehicles is the main reason emissions from transport leapt by more than 10% over the decade, according to the monthly emissions audit published by progressive thinktank the Australia Institute.

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