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Australian animal protection groups are attempting to rescue about 120 animals from the site.

Tornado that tore down six transmission lines to leave South Australia islanded for a week, and four wind farms sidelined, as AEMO praised for keeping lights on in extreme conditions.

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Deep underneath the streets of the capital is a hidden network, powering the network.

With all testing complete, Europe's audacious mission to our star is placed atop its launch rocket.

In the 90s, an inspirational teacher and his students uncovered corruption and illegal dumping in their backyard. Nearly 30 years on, is Middletown still at risk?

In the summer of 1991, Middletown high school, roughly 70 miles north of Manhattan in New York’s verdant Orange County, acquired a handful of video cameras. The goal was to train the school’s teenage students in film-making and media production, using local subjects as a starting point – perhaps a documentary about the city’s sports teams or an amateur talkshow. Instead, under the tutelage of Middletown high’s popular English teacher, Fred Isseks, a rowdy and diverse group of teenagers organised themselves into an investigative journalism unit.

Officially, Isseks’ class was open only to the school’s oldest students, aged 16 to 18 – but, unofficially, it welcomed everyone. Kids not even enrolled in the course joined Isseks’ students in shooting short films. The teenagers alternated between grungy early-90s flannel and choker necklaces and awkward attempts at business attire as they honed their reporting skills. They invited local representatives into the school’s new media studio for a political debate, and covered topics such as the city’s curfew for teens. One former student joked to me that the class became a surreal mix of “rap videos and corrupt politicians”.

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Beavers can regenerate landscapes, encourage wildlife and prevent flooding – and they have friends in high places

The must-have accessory for every English country estate was once a gothic folly, a ha-ha or a croquet lawn. Now it is a pair of beavers.

Landowners and large estates are racing to acquire licences to reintroduce the water-loving rodents, which were hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago.

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Plants provide key food source for pollinators as they come out of hibernation

Gardeners should avoid mowing over dandelions on their lawn if they want to help bees, according to the new president of the British Ecological Society.

Dandelions – which will start flowering in the UK this month – provide a valuable food source for early pollinators coming out of hibernation, including solitary bees, honey bees and hoverflies.

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Newsnight was given rare access to a once-in-a-generation meeting of indigenous groups trying to save the Amazon.

Take a look inside an Antarctic campsite and find out how they survive.

Regulated entities in the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) drew down nearly 150,000 tonnes on the credit bank in the third quarter of 2019, but administrative adjustments kept the programme’s surplus bank mostly constant.

The Chilean Senate approved changes to the Latin American nation’s $5/tonne CO2 levy on Wednesday, altering the methodology for applying the tax and setting out the use of offsets as a compliance option.

Farm on Eyre Peninsula volunteered by owner to house low and medium risk waste

A farming property on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula will become a nuclear waste dump, the federal government has announced, but opponents of the facility are making a last-bid ditch to stop it.

On Saturday the federal resources minister, Matt Canavan, said 160 hectares of the Napandee property in Kimba would host Australia’s radioactive waste, the vast majority of which comes from the production of nuclear medicine and is held across more than 100 sites.

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A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level taken this week, including developments in the Pacific Northwest, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Hawaii, and Illinois.

The UK government has sacked the president of this year’s UN climate talks in Glasgow, announcing that the position will made be a ministerial role.

The RGGI cap-and-trade system reported its lowest annual emissions figure in 2019 as reported fourth quarter GHGs dropped 12%, with much of those reductions coming from New York and Maryland, according to data published Friday.

The UK is due to commence its 2019 free EU ETS allocations within days and on Mar. 4 begin auctioning 2019 units, the British government confirmed late Friday as part of a Brexit transition deal that keeps UK emitters in the scheme for the next year.

Scientists put their concerns about giant satellite networks directly to the companies involved.

The UK government sacks the woman it appointed to run the crucial UN climate summit in November.

Source says officials in COP26 unit could not work with Claire O’Neill in run-up to Glasgow talks

Claire O’Neill, the former UK energy minister who was to lead the UN climate talks this year in Glasgow, has been removed from the post.

Her sacking comes as Boris Johnson prepares to launch the UK’s strategy for hosting November’s crunch climate talks, known as COP26.

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