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Here's how Australians and their overseas family and friends can monitor the movement of fire fronts in real time. Amanda Gearing, Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The scale of the nation's ongoing emergency is terrifying - here's what fire crews are facing.

The hydrogen-powered drone which could revolutionise the travel industry.

Dozens dead in Indonesian capital and surrounds as role of global heating is acknowledged in ‘extreme’ event

Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding to try and prevent further rainfall over the capital, Jakarta, and surrounding areas the death toll reached 43 on Friday amid flash floods and landslides.

With more rain forecast, two small planes were readied to drop sodium chloride to break up potential rain clouds in the skies above the Sunda Strait with a bigger plane on standby, said Indonesia’s technology agency.

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The year 2019 saw several high temperature records in the UK - concluding a record-breaking decade.

The sheep of North Ronaldsay could teach other livestock how to belch in a way less harmful to the climate.

Main purpose of job: To contribute to British Embassy Berlin work to combat Climate Change, including diplomatic action to support delivery of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in November 2020.

How the Japanese firm Astroscale is set to start cleaning up the Earth's orbiting space debris.

Reporting to the Principal Green Finance Specialist, the Mobilising Article 6 Trading Structures (MATS) Program Manager, the Specialist Carbon Economist will lead analytical component of the program, working closely with team members and relevant stakeholders to implement the MATS program furthering elements of the whole GGGI Article 6 portfolio.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices dipped on the secondary market after Christmas on thin volume, with RGGI Allowances (RGAs) remaining unchanged week-on-week ahead of New Jersey’s entrance into the scheme.

Europe's leading clean transport think tank and campaign group, Transport & Environment (T&E), is looking to strengthen its leadership team with a director to lead Europe’s most important clean freight programme.

A long-term resolution to leave the car at home could help waistlines as well as the environment

Since 2011 Beijing has controlled traffic growth by allocating new licence plates in a bimonthly lottery. There is less than a one in 500 chance of getting a plate in each draw but winning might not be as wonderful as it first seems.

The impact of increased motorised travel extend beyond air pollution. In the UK the total distance walked each year dropped by 30% between 1995 and 2013, and the distance cycled in England and Wales in 2012 was just 20% of that in 1952 – but these changes have been slow and are difficult to study.

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US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) biofuel credit prices retreated into the single digits over the past week, driven by several factors coalescing over the year end holiday period.

Research from a now defunded Australian adaptation centre has found social barriers are the biggest obstacle to effective action

Talking to a fourth-generation grazier west of Townsville a few years ago, Prof Stephen Williams says he “made the mistake” of mentioning climate change.

“He said it was bullshit, but we kept talking,” the James Cook University ecologist says.

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EUAs slipped on Thursday, the first trading day of 2020, to continue their post-Christmas slump as the return of auctions looms and the wider energy complex turned even more bearish.

Austria’s new coalition government on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging policy package that includes a domestic carbon price for non-EU ETS sectors and a higher climate levy for aviation, as the country strives for net zero emissions by 2040.

Fourteen entities opened Compliance Instrument Tracking System Service (CITSS) accounts in the California cap-and-trade programme during the fourth quarter as the total number climbed to 717, according to data released this week by state regulator ARB.

Main purpose of job: To support the work of the UK Mission to the United Nations to combat climate change, including diplomatic action to support delivery of the UK hosted 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in December 2020.

Further steps have been taken to clean up beaches and seas in 2019 – but much more needs to be done

The beach at Muncar on the island of Java was revolting. The 400-yard wide, mile-long stretch of sand was feet deep in foul-smelling sauce sachets, shopping bags, nappies, bottles and bags, plastic clothes and detergent bottles. Bulldozers had cleared away and buried some of the huge mat of plastic and sand two years ago, but every tide since then had washed up more rubbish from the ocean, and every day tonnes more plastic was washed down the rivers from upstream towns and villages. Now it was fouling the fishing boats’ propellers.

“We fear for the future,” one elderly woman said. She remembered Muncar only a decade ago as one of the most picturesque towns in Indonesia and a tourist hotspot. “If it carries on like this we will be buried in plastic. We have no choice but to throw plastic into the rivers. Now we are angry. Something must be done,” she said.

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