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Labour in power would change law to reveal imported emissions and ‘carbon leakage’

The UK will stop hiding its “true impact” on the climate by revealing its consumption of carbon emissions from across the world, Jeremy Corbyn was due to pledge on Sunday.

In an attempt to place his party at the forefront of the battle against the climate crisis, the Labour leader was due to say, is “even greater than we think” and demands an end to “passing the buck to poorer countries”.

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Ambitious export plan could generate billions and make Australia the centre of low-cost energy in a future zero-carbon world

The desert outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most obvious place to build and transmit Singapore’s future electricity supply. Though few in the southern states are yet to take notice, a group of Australian developers are betting that will change.

If they are right, it could have far-reaching consequences for Australia’s energy industry and what the country sells to the world.

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The submersible robot delivers baby corals to damaged areas allowing reefs to regenerate.

All the focus was on the Moon, the mission and the men – but what about the families back on Earth?

Australia's neighbour is one of the world's worst plastic polluters, and it's individuals who are doing the most work to clean up.

Other events included mass bike ride through A10, Olympic park traffic blocks as well as talks and panels in London Fields

Extinction Rebellion has staged a blockade in Dalston, east London, disrupting traffic at its busiest central junction. Car horns, sirens and swearing competed with drumming protesters, singing and hula dancing. On Saturday the group kicked off a weekend of activity ahead of its summer uprising this week, which aims to disrupt five major UK cities and shock people into action against the climate crisis.

About 50 protesters lined the road with banners reading “thank you for your patience” and “sorry for the disruption” in the hope of placating the public for the seven-minute intervals during which they blocked traffic. Some drivers were bored, others were furious.

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More living walls are being created in cities to tackle pollution, but keeping them alive can be a major challenge

When Andrea Carnevali’s son started at St Mary’s Catholic primary school in Chiswick he was alarmed to find that pupils were sometimes kept indoors at break times, despite a large playground.

The reason was the nearby six-lane A4 road, which has up to 100,000 vehicles thundering past the school each day. As evidence mounted about the impact of poor air quality on children’s health, the headteacher restricted time outside.

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One of the most important Russian space science missions in the post-Soviet era lifts off from Baikonur.

A farm in Portugal is showing how the ancient art of silvopasture – combining livestock with productive trees – may offer some real answers to the climate crisis

The land to the north of the village of Foros de Vale Figueira in southern Portugal has been owned and farmed through the centuries by Romans, Moors, Christians, capitalists, far rightists, even the military. It has been part of a private fiefdom, worked by slaves as well as communists.

Now this 100-hectare (247-acre) patch of land just looks exhausted – a great empty grassland without trees, people or animals, wilting under a baking Iberian sun.

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With double the range, bidirectional charging and a roomy inside, the 2019 electric Nissan Leaf makes a good proposition in the lower price range of the EV market.

The post Electric Nissan Leaf 2019 drive test, review, specifications and pricing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fifty years on, here are four things that made the Apollo Moon programme one of humankind's greatest technological achievements.

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Monarch butterflies have been tracked soaring high to make use of strong tailwinds on their long-distance migration

Every September an incredible migration phenomenon begins. Clouds of stripy orange monarch butterflies set off on a 2,500km journey, travelling from southern Canada to warmer climes in southern California and Mexico. Come spring they follow the milkweed blossom and travel back up north. No butterfly completes the entire trip: after flying many hundreds of kilometres the female butterflies lay eggs and pass the baton to the next generation. Now a new study, published in Biology Letters, reveals how these amazing insects make use of the weather to aid their journey.

Related: Monarch butterfly population wintering in Mexico increases 144%

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Questions raised over Murray-Darling Basin spending; Global meat consumption forecast to rise, Vegan activists slam new trespass laws, A new definition of 'lamb' and a novel way of cutting down plastics in vegetable packaging.

Fiona Pepper follows the path of a tiny grain of plastic - a nurdle - as it travels on ocean currents from South Africa to land on a 'pristine' beach in West Australia. 

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit prices drew closer to the $200 level this week, while market participants began focusing their attention to the programme’s upcoming quarterly data release.

EPA said studies it considered, most of which were sponsored by industry, found sulfoxaflor isn’t dangerous for the pollinators

The Trump administration is approving the pesticide sulfoxaflor – thought by some experts to harm bees – for use on a wide variety of crops.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the studies it considered, most of which were sponsored by industry, found the chemical is not dangerous for the pollinators responsible for $15bn in US crops each year.

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California regulator ARB has not made adequate arguments in defending the state's compliance grade forestry offset protocol, and changes should made to address the methodology's lenient leakage guidelines, a new policy brief said.

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