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The success of a scheme to reintroduce endangered parrots to the forests of South Island augurs well for wider efforts to restore native wildlife

When the conservation trust Project Janszoon released a dozen kākā in Abel Tasman national park at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, the large, brassy forest parrots settled in quickly, despite never before having lived in the wild. At 3am the next morning they began their customary ear-splitting calls. Hikers sleeping in a hut in Bark Bay declined an offer of earplugs from release team members who stayed overnight; snorers, they said, bothered them more than the birds.

That New Zealanders could once again live alongside these rare native creatures – and that the birds could be multitudinous enough to bother them with their chatty racket – is still something of a novelty. In urban spaces, on the fringes of cities, and even in national parks, the country has been bereft of its native birds for so long that they are beginning to feel like part of history. Half of them have gone extinct since humans arrived on New Zealand’s shores. Predators, chiefly stoats, possums, and rats, kill more than 68,000 native birds every day.

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Footage shows Venice's main square, Piazza San Marco, under inches of floodwater as the city weathers its worst flood since the 1960s.

Two people have died as waters reached up to 1.87 metres and caused millions of euros of damage

• Two people die as Venice floods at highest level in 50 years

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European carbon prices dropped to a new one-month low on Thursday, on what traders called a mix of technical selling and bearish pressures.

From mystical woodlands to majestic whales, here are the winners and runners-up of this year’s competition. They were recently announced at the Nature Talks photo festival in the Netherlands

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New Zealand has launched a public consultation round on the rules for auctioning NZUs and how its cost containment reserve (CCR) will work when it replaces the NZ$25 fixed price option next year.

Heavy rain warning for already wet areas as ex-Tory minister rejects flood defence criticism

Residents of South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are being warned to remain vigilant as more rain is expected in previously flooded areas.

The Met Office issued several alerts for ice, rain and snow across the country on Thursday, while the Environment Agency warned further flooding could occur.

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) board on Thursday approved a $100 million loan to an Asian Development Bank-led project in China’s Shandong province against the votes of the US and Japan, the first time the fund backs a Chinese project.

Europe’s biggest emitter RWE advanced its hedging rate over Q3 to give a slightly more covered position compared to previous years amid accelerating declines of its thermal generation, it said in financial results on Thursday.

23 former fire and emergency chiefs have spoken out, saying the Government has ignored the potential for climate change to supercharge extreme weather events like fires, floods and cyclones.

On 26 November 2019, a number of changes to how international wildlife trade is regulated will come into effect.

On 26 November 2019, a number of changes to how international wildlife trade is regulated will come into effect.

Lucy Hughes, 24, wins £30,000 international prize for compostable MarinaTex

A bioplastic made of organic fish waste that would otherwise end up in landfill – with the potential to replace plastic in food and drink packaging – has landed its UK designer a prestigious international award and £30,000 prize.

Lucy Hughes, 24, a graduate in product design from the University of Sussex, scooped the James Dyson award for her biodegradable and compostable material known as MarinaTex.

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Chicken eggs were found to contain 70 times the level allowed under European safety standards.

Victoria renewable energy auction to deliver net benefits of $285 million, according to state auditor.

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Australia may be forced to align itself with former Soviet-era countries to defend plans to carryover surplus Kyoto emissions permits.

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Solar pushed the average midday price of electricity in Queensland close to zero in the September quarter.

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While the ibis may be trailing in bird of the year, it has made it into the top 10 most commonly seen birds in the Aussie backyard bird count

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We recently took our children to Sydney for the first time. They loved it: the Manly ferry, the Opera House, hanging out on Bondi beach hoping to see some idiot tourist get pulled from the surf by the lifesavers from Bondi Rescue.

But perhaps their most lasting memory was provided by an ibis foraging around Circular Quay. When the first fleet unloaded its scurvy-sickened crew at the same site in 1788, there were very probably no ibis lurking. Their natural home was the wetlands of the Murray-Darling basin. They only started to become regulars in Sydney during the 1950s – perhaps not coincidentally around the time of the great surge in irrigation infrastructure that started sucking water out of the rivers and wetlands of their traditional territory.

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The Tianjin municipal government is circulating draft regulations for public comment that would extend the life of its emissions trading scheme by 5 years, and is also planning to expand coverage to align with the long-term plans for the national cap-and-trade programme.

In this podcast, David Littleproud says "as elected officials, we've got a responsibility" to wait for the right time to talk about the link between climate change and the ongoing bushfires. Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.