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Export market for NSW coal faces further pressures as Japan cancels two-thirds of planned new coal power.

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Water for the environment will be used in the River Murray throughout winter and spring to ensure native fish have the water they depend on to survive, feed and breed.

Water for the environment will be used in the River Murray throughout winter and spring to ensure native fish have the water they depend on to survive, feed and breed.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list the Coastal Floodplain Eucalypt Forest of Eastern Australia as a threatened ecological community. Consultation closes on 21 August 2019.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list the Coastal Floodplain Eucalypt Forest of Eastern Australia as a threatened ecological community. Consultation closes on 21 August 2019.

Hackers stole 6,000 emails and other documents from a climate research centre almost 10 years ago.

It's 50 years since the first ever manned landing on the Moon - what was involved?

People with a rare condition called mirror-touch synesthesia could help scientists understand empathy.

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The UK-led attempt to break the land speed record will conduct 500-600mph trials later this year.

The UK government isn't cutting emissions fast enough to tackle global heating, its advisers say.

Grantham Research Institute found half do not factor climate crisis in decision-making

About a quarter of the world’s highest-emitting publicly listed companies fail to report their greenhouse gas emissions and nearly half do not properly consider the risks from the climate crisis in their decision-making, new research has found.

The findings show the distance even the world’s biggest companies still have to cover to meet the goals of the Paris agreement on climate change, according to the group of investors coordinating the report.

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The Alberta government opened a consultation Tuesday on its proposed overhaul next year for the Canadian province’s carbon trading programme for large emitters, with the ruling United Conservative Party offering input on the CO2 regulation’s excess emissions charge and usage limits for offsets and performance credits.

"There is a massive amount of new, very large dams that are capturing water that used to be surplus to irrigation," says Maryanne Slattery from the Australia Institute.

The British Columbia government is floating the incorporation of a credit clearance market that would act as a hard price cap for the Canadian province’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), while also considering the possibility for new alternative fuel types to generate credits.

The Four Corners report on corporations being handed public money to expand their water holdings has sparked calls for a full audit of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

New Zealand has one of the world's largest ocean territories, but the marine environment is at risk from climate change, pollution and fishing. Rebecca Jarvis, Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology Tim Young, Marine Scientist, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian houses are not designed and built for the realities of climate change Anir Kumar Upadhyay, Lecturer in Built Environment, UNSW Chris Lockhart Smith, Director - ecodweller, UNSW Krishna Munsami, PhD student, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Commission confirmed Wednesday that it wants to monetise hundreds of millions of Innovation Fund EUAs in equal annual volumes, a move that analysts said will mean the sales are less likely to affect allowance prices.

Roughly 1.8 million V17 Quebec allowances remain in WCI auction accounts after the second quarter despite proclamations by the province that those credits were retired last month, according to Carbon Pulse calculations.