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How much more efficiency can be wrung out of the jet engine - technology which is over 70 years old?

Conservationists mapped the most critical areas of Scotland for endangered birds like the kittiwake.

Commitments to phase out deforestation by 2020 are out of reach for many, reports find

Some of the world’s biggest brands are failing in their commitments to banish deforestation from their supply chains through their use of palm oil, despite making public claims to environmental sustainability, according to two reports.

Scores of the world’s biggest consumer brands have agreed to phase out deforestation through the use of sustainable palm oil by 2020, but this goal looks far out of reach for many, according to separate reports from the campaigning groups WWF and Rainforest Action Network.

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Remote coastal community of Denham may become host to one of Australia's first hydrogen storage projects, as Horizon Power its overhauls electricity system.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices flirted with all-time highs this week, while data showed British Columbia’s credit deficit for its own clean fuels programme rose in 2018.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices dropped on the secondary market after rising toward programme highs to start 2020, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices rose double-digits amid increased buying.

Conservative government critics blame Treasury’s dramatic cut in subsidies

Britain’s green economy has shrunk since 2014, heightening concerns that the government will miss targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the decade.

The number of people employed in the “low carbon and renewable energy economy” declined by more than 11,000 to 235,900 between 2014 and 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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The tech giant pledges to remove all the carbon it has emitted since its founding in 1975.

When ecosystems aren't able to repair themselves, it's up to us to intervene. Lucy Commander, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Western Australia Heidi Zimmer, Research associate, Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

• Thousands of bodies washed up on North America’s Pacific coast
• Study finds common murres probably died of starvation

A million seabirds died in less than a year as a result of a giant “blob” of hot ocean water off the coast of New Zealand, according to new research.

A study released by the University of Washington found the birds, called the common murre, probably died of starvation between the summer of 2015 and the spring of 2016.

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The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) can enforce its market-based carbon rule on stationary emitters after the state Supreme Court partially overturned a lower court's decision on Thursday, but the ruling still bars the agency from implementing GHG limits on fuel suppliers and natural gas distributors.

Guardian Australia analysis reveals the frightening amount of world heritage area burned in Australia’s ongoing fire crisis

At least 80% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area and more than 50% of the Gondwana world heritage rainforests have burned in Australia’s ongoing bushfire crisis.

The scale of the disaster is such that it could affect the diversity of eucalypts for which the Blue Mountains world heritage area is recognised, said John Merson, the executive director of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute.

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Satellites continue to monitor the Philippines volcano which has experienced a lull in activity.

Europe's six-wheeled robot completes more key tests ahead of its planned summer launch.

The German government has mapped out a tentative plan to phase out the country’s lignite plants, also agreeing a strategy to cancel freed up EU carbon allowances and compensate affected companies, regions, and workers.

EUAs climbed above €25 for the first time this week early on Thursday as auction demand continued to be strong while Germany confirmed its emission-busting coal phaseout and EUA cancellation plans.

California’s current suite of climate policies may not reduce emissions in line with the state’s 2030 goal, but the adoption of six new or enhanced mechanisms could ensure it hits that mark, according to a report released Thursday.

The Belgian traveller was trying to smuggle the protected species from Peru to Spain, officers say.

We’d like to hear from farmers and those in the agriculture sector about what they think about the new bill

After Brexit, the UK’s food security is to be regularly assessed by parliament to ensure minimal disruption to supplies while new trade deals are being sought, outlined in a new agriculture bill, introduced to parliament on Thursday.

British agriculture is facing the biggest shakeup in 40 years, and the bill requires a regular report to MPs outlining supply sources and household expenditure on food, as well as consumer confidence in food safety.

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Major South Korean carbon project developers are dubious to opportunities in China, amid efforts to drum up Korean interest in earning carbon credits from China-based N2O projects.