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Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.

Climate of the Nation survey also growing support for net zero emissions by 2050 and rapid phase-out of coal power

Australians are increasingly concerned about droughts and floods, extinctions and water shortages associated with climate change, and most people think all levels of government aren’t doing enough to combat the effects of global warming, according to new research.

The annual Climate of the Nation survey, which has been tracking Australian attitudes to climate change for more than a decade, finds concern about droughts and flooding has risen from 74% of the survey in 2017 to 81% in 2019.

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The private sector has limited access to a slowly emerging international carbon market as governments are likely to take another two years to finalise its rules, experts said on Monday.

• Rights chief Michelle Bachelet highlights role in civil wars
• ‘The world has never seen a threat to human rights of this scope’

Climate change is not only having a devastating impact on the environments we live in, but also on respect for human rights globally, the UN has warned.

Related: 'Chaos, chaos, chaos': a journey through Bolsonaro's Amazon inferno

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European carbon prices firmed on Monday, though sellers kept them based near €25 amid a sharp increase in auction supply and wider political and macroeconomic worries.

Tesla delivery staff reportedly say "thousands" of Model 3s are due for delivery to customers, meaning it is well on the becoming the best-selling EV in Australia.

The post Model 3 sales in Australia in “thousands” tipping scale of EV adoption appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The BBC asks former members of India's space agency what went wrong with its most complex mission.

Growing at around 30% annually, China’s data centers have emerged as a major source of greenhouse gas emissions that should be encouraged to invest in renewables or buy credits from the nation’s renewable energy certificate market, according to a report published Monday.

South Korean carbon allowances traded at their highest-ever levels on Monday as buyers were forced to pay more for the few permits available with only three weeks left until the annual compliance deadline.

A 2,000km road and river odyssey through rainforest reveals consensus from all sides: Bolsonaro has spurred a record burning season and ushered in a new age of wrecking

From afar it resembles a tornado: an immense grey column shooting thousands of feet upwards from the forest canopy into the Amazonian skies.

Up close it is an inferno: a raging conflagration obliterating yet another stretch of the world’s greatest rainforest as a herd of Nelore cattle looks on in bewilderment.

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As dwindling stocks sound the death knell for their industry, fishermen face difficult and often dangerous choices

Boats gently knock together along the dock in Kelibia. The gentle melody of their wooden hulls colliding has been heard in this small Tunisian fishing village for decades. In the midday sun, fishermen feed scraps to stray cats in a scene that seems almost preserved in amber.

But the fishing trade is in its death throes here, as the pressures of the climate crisis impact on global fish stocks and put new social pressures on the fishermen themselves.

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The Woodland Trust’s annual competition highlights and celebrates the best trees in the country. Once again it’s being supported by the award-winning horticulturalist and TV personality David Domoney. A carefully chosen panel of judges spent a day debating the positives of hundreds of trees to find the very best England has to offer.

Here you can see the 10 shortlisted trees. Go online at woodlandtrust.org.uk/treeoftheyear to choose your favourite, which will be named England’s tree of the year for 2019

• Full report: competition unearths tales of myth and legend

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Jinko Solar today announced that it was one of only four PV module suppliers to receive a “AA” bankability rating from PV-Tech & Solar Media, Ltd.

The post JinkoSolar named top-rated bankable PV module supplier by PV-Tech appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The 9,000 animals culled to control cattle TB suffered terribly, says a former government adviser.

Wind and solar hit new record share of output in Australia's main grid on Saturday.

The post Australia’s main grid hits new peak of 41 per cent wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland solar farm at centre of legal battle with state government narrowly avoids being damaged by fire, in one of more than 60 blazes across the state.

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Australia's coal fired generators already enjoy huge subsidies. Do they need any more?

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Australian researchers are trying to understand how the birds, which receive no parental care, survive against all odds in big cities

The chicks are considered “hors d’oeuvres” of the bird world and now Sydney scientists need public help trying to understand how brush turkeys survive against the odds in urban environments.

Brush turkeys’ six-month breeding season kicked off in July and a team of researchers from the University of Sydney and Taronga Zoo have put out a call for community sightings of nesting mounds, breeding activities and chick hatchings across New South Wales and Queensland.

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency will tip $4 million into a $12.3 million trial of Australian made wave energy technology off the coast of King Island, Tasmania.

The post ARENA backs wave power generation pilot project off King Island appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian researchers believe they have found the wreck of USS Neosho, a US oil tanker sunk defending Australia in the Battle of the Coral Sea, near the ship’s last reported position at nearly 3 km depth.