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The fires are releasing significant amounts of carbon gases, contributing further to global warming.

Chris Kraft, who founded Nasa's mission control, is honoured at the Proms after his death this week.

London art and design museum praises environmental group’s distinctive visual identity

A year ago, the climate activist movement Extinction Rebellion did not even exist. Now, just nine months after its first public action, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has acquired a number of artefacts associated with the group, saying the visual impact of its campaigns can be compared to that of the suffragettes.

A green, blue and pink flag printed with the movement’s distinctive extinction symbol, two printing blocks used by activists early in the campaign to make their own protest banners and an already rare pamphlet from the first print run produced by the group will join the V&A’s permanent collections as part of its “rapid response” programme to put contemporary and newsworthy objects on display.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Tim Flannery, chief councillor of Climate Council Australia, warns about the pace of climate change.

EU carbon prices fell for a third day on Friday, retreating further from this week's 13-year high as energy prices declined and Europe's heatwave receded.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has distributed nearly 300,000 carbon credits over the past two weeks, as issuance rates return to near average levels.

The company, which handles about half of the state’s recycling, is in financial crisis and has told local councils it can no longer accept material

More than half of the Victorian rubbish usually handled by stricken recycling operator SKM will be sent to the tip after the company told 30 local councils it could no longer collect material from them.

Victorian minister for the environment, Lily D’Ambrosio, said other operators had the capacity to absorb about 40% of the approximately 300,000 tonnes of recycling handled by SKM every year, leaving about 180,000 tonnes destined for landfill.

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Creator of Gaia theory recalls how it nearly had another name and says the age of AI is nigh

James Lovelock has spent a lifetime pondering the forces that shape Earth. It was a pursuit that brought about his most famous creation: a view of the world where life maintains the conditions for life, which he niftily named Gaia theory.

The hypothesis, as it was back then, was wholeheartedly embraced by the fledgling green movement of the 1970s. But for Lovelock, who turned 100 on Friday, more pressing threats to the planet come from nature, not humans. In particular, he’s worried about asteroids.

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More than 60 news outlets worldwide have signed on to Covering Climate Now, a project to improve coverage of the emergency

For a week this September, dozens of news organizations in the US and around the world will join forces to devote their front pages and airwaves to a critical but under-covered story: the global climate emergency.

This unique media collaboration, timed to coincide with landmark UN Climate Action Summit in New York, is the first initiative of Covering Climate Now, a project co-founded by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review, in partnership with The Guardian, which aims to kickstart a conversation among journalists about how news outlets can improve their coverage of the climate crisis.

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Albany pitcher plants are more closely related to cabbages and roses than any other carnivorous plant. Adam Cross, Research Fellow, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Christian Aid poll finds climate emergency should be Boris Johnson’s top priority

Most Britons believe climate change is more important in the long term than Brexit and say it should be a top priority for Boris Johnson’s government, according to an opinion poll.

Women and young people are more likely to say that action over climate change is a more pressing priority than issues around Brexit.

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Wave energy demonstration plant to be trialled off King Island, Tasmania, where it will be integrated with existing wind, diesel and solar resources – a first in Australia.

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The Department of the Environment and Energy is trialling a new online acquittal portal with a small group of Wildlife Trade permit holders. ...

BHP has pledged to spend lots of money on new technologies and clean up its supply chain. But they said that a decade ago. Has anything changed?

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The substation and transmission line to link to the Cattle Hill Wind Farm to the transmission network has been completed and energised by TasNetworks.

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NextEra Energy Resources will develop the largest co-located wind, solar, and energy storage project in the US, which will boast total capacity of 700 MW when it is completed in 2023.

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Suncorp becomes the latest insurance firm to abandon the thermal coal industry, setting itself the deadline to eliminate coal exposure by 2025.

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The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open from 26 July 2019 until 28 August 2019.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open from 26 July 2019 until 28 August 2019.