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Jim Smith, who has died aged 75, devoted his entire adult life to the River Ouse in Sussex. In his role as head bailiff for the Ouse Angling Preservation Society for 55 years and a trustee of the Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust, he sold and checked fishing permits, policed the fishery, supervised the work of volunteers and helped monitor sewage and pollution.

With his battered tweed trilby and deep Sussex brogue, Jim was the archetypal river bailiff. I first met him some 20 years ago when I began fishing the Ouse for its elusive sea trout. In 2015 Jim was interviewed by the Guardian for a feature headlined The Old Man and the River, highlighting environmental problems facing the Ouse and other rivers throughout Britain.

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WCI market stakeholders remain unsure of whether regulator ARB can void California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) after their invalidation period expires based on the timing of a probe, with the most recent decision providing little clarity on the scenario.

The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including a plea for a crocodile trapped in a tyre

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EUA prices dipped early on Friday towards their recent two-month low as Britain readied to leave the EU with no indication yet as how the country will distribute its 2019 allowances.

Ugandan activist says she hopes storm over Davos photo will help shift narrative

The Ugandan climate activist who was cropped out of a press photo in Davos has said many African activists experience the same erasure but feel unable to speak up.

The Associated Press apologised last week after it cropped Vanessa Nakate out of a photo she had posed for alongside fellow activists Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Friday unveiled a A$2 billion ($1.34 bln) bilateral agreement on climate and energy, centred around efforts to produce more natural gas for domestic consumption.

Timelapse video shows a cloud of smoke rising behind houses in southern Tuggeranong, near the Australian capital, on Friday.

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has declared a state of emergency  as bushfires continue spreading in the south of Canberra, and the Orroral bushfire has grown to 8% of territory’s land mass

• Australia fires live: Canberra bushfires threaten suburbs as heatwave hits NSW and Victoria – latest updates
• Hot, sticky and stormy weather forecast for parts of Australia's south and south-east

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New Zealand carbon allowances took another beating in Friday trade, shedding 2.7% as some emitters sold off allowances with a view to lock in profits by paying the NZ$25 fixed price option in May.

Hives that survived catastrophic Paris cathedral blaze are healthier than ever, says beekeeper

It is a crisp winter morning and the area around Notre Dame is sealed off as it has been since the fire last April that devastated the cathedral.

Those in the know, however, especially those with the keenest of eyes, might spot some small movement high up to the south of the stricken and blackened structure.

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The recent bushfire horror exposed fundamental flaws in the way we treat the land. First Peoples know the way out of this ecological crisis – if only Australia would listen. Zena Cumpston, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

On the morning of January 16, Antaisolar successively signed the 2020 strategic cooperation agreement with One Stop warehouse and Solar Chaser respectively.

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Santos and AGL complete project to install solar and batteries to power pumps at 20 remote oil wells

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Clean Energy Council says action on grid connection issues necessary after investment in Australia's large-scale renewables sector was cut in half in 2019.

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South Australia hints at zero emissions target, and pushes for more renewables, storage and other climate action.

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"Deal with the devil" directly links support for renewable energy infrastructure with expansion of coal and gas industries.

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Sunwiz director Warwick Johnston on the past year and 2020 forecasts, and what we learned from the bushfires.

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The Prime Minister’s office is effectively run as a branch of the Minerals Council and other conservative interests, climate denialists to the core.

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Chemicals in plastics can build up in seabirds at levels thousands of times higher than normal.

The position will oversee feasibility assessments covering project activities in two WCS landscapes in East Africa. The objective of the feasibility work is to create a fact base that will facilitate an investor decision on the potential for cost effective credit generation over the long term

California regulator ARB invalidated nearly 19,000 offsets issued for use in the state’s ETS on Thursday after determining a Michigan-based project was not in regulatory compliance during one of the two reporting periods under review.