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Photographer Edward Burtynsky explains his 40-year quest for striking images of our impact on the planet.

Two Brazilian firms with connections to the Trump administration have made gradual steps toward the expansion of agribusiness in the rainforest.

Review also urges parks and beauty spots to increase appeal to minority ethnic visitors

National parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty have not done enough to protect nature or welcome diverse visitors, and extra government funding must help drive radical change, according to a review.

The independent review, commissioned by the former environment secretary Michael Gove, praises the work of England’s 44 “national landscapes”, including the Lake District and Dartmoor, but calls for a new focus to stop declines in nature and welcome working-class and black and minority ethnic visitors.

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Young and old alike took to the streets in an estimated 185 countries to demand action

Millions of people demonstrated across the world yesterday demanding urgent action to tackle global heating, as they united across timezones and cultures to take part in the biggest climate protest in history.

In an explosion of the youth movement started by the Swedish school striker Greta Thunberg just over 12 months ago, people protested from the Pacific islands, through Australia, across-south east Asia and Africa into Europe and onwards to the Americas.

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This week as climate protests take to the world stage, farmers in Australia rally for a national conversation; how regenerative farming could benefit both business and the environment; and what happens when food goes bad?

The phasing out of coal power across the EU could result in up to 2.2 billion unused EUAs that risk weighing on prices unless lawmakers enact further reforms, according to environmental campaigners Carbon Market Watch.

The climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won’t be stopped by symbolism

During the carnage of the first world war, the poet Wilfred Owen revisited the biblical story in which God tests Abraham by commanding the sacrifice of Isaac, his son. In Genesis, Abraham dutifully prepares the lad for slaughter before God relents and tells him to offer a ram instead.

Owen’s bitter poem rewrites the ending:

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The German government on Friday unveiled a comprehensive new €50 billion climate plan, which centres around a domestic trading scheme for the country’s transportation and heating sectors, and price controls for both EU ETS and non-ETS allowances.

Germany has agreed to France’s urgings to consider an EU carbon border measure, adding to the increasing number of European proponents for a policy to shield the bloc’s industry from foreign rivals not faced with comparable environmental limits.

Lindsay Smith has been tagging seabirds in the deep waters off Wollongong for over thirty years. Commercial fishing practice can have a devastating impact on seabird populations. But science is figuring out how to best mitigate the damage. This program is a re-issue from the Off Track archives while Ann takes a short break.

California and Quebec's final carbon auction of 2019 will include nearly 76.5 million current and future vintage allowances at its Nov. 19 sale, according to an auction notice released Friday.

Numerous carbon pricing bills introduced in the US Congress this year could require further work in order to properly implement a price-ratcheting mechanism tied to GHG goals and a border adjustment for fossil fuel exports and imports, experts said Friday.

Millions of people join a global environmental strike led by schoolchildren.

Europe's space mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy reaches a key milestone.

EU transport ministers supported continuing to include flights in the EU ETS on Friday but will still leave open whether to protect the policy at UN body ICAO's triennial meeting next week, which is expected to seek to shut it down.

Greta Thunberg says she is blown away by the global success of her school climate strike movement. In an interview before she led a climate march in New York City, she said she 'never would have predicted' how quickly the action would spread across the world

• US to stage its largest ever climate strike: 'Somebody must sound the alarm'

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A kangaroo affected by drought, a prize-winning sea lion and a polka-dotted zebra foal

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A Fiorland penguin has spent eight weeks recuperating after a 2,500km swim from New Zealand to Australia. Now the endangered bird is being released by Melbourne zoo back into the wild

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From babies to bagpipers, hundreds of thousands filled the streets in more than 200 rallies

• Global climate protests – live updates

From the small sun-drenched Inner Hebridean island of Iona to the packed streets of central London, parents and grandparents, children and trade unionists have stepped out of their Friday routines to tell their political leaders time is running out to tackle the climate crisis.

Related: Greta Thunberg: face of the Global Climate Strike - in pictures

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