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Britain’s smallest butterfly has been spotted more than 25 miles from its nearest known colony

It seems not to have stopped raining since last month’s Butterflywatch but it has been quite warm and in the gaps between the deluges I’ve seen plenty of Britain’s largest butterfly, the swallowtail, in its Norfolk heartland.

I’ve also admired hundreds of migratory painted ladies, blown in on southerly winds, in what is the largest invasion for a decade but still well short of the epic painted lady summer of 2009.

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Rescuing injured joeys, chainsaw racing for fun and fitness, heritage restoration provides history lesson and martial arts helping to counter bullying.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level taken this week, including Massachusetts approving long-term hydroelectric contracts, Maine renewable energy bills, a California bill targeting WCI offsets.

Oregon Senate Republicans will return to the legislature this weekend after receiving assurances from Democrats that the proposed WCI-modelled cap-and-trade programme will not move forward during the 2019 session, the party leader said Friday.

The Ontario Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Ottawa has the authority to impose its ‘backstop’ carbon pricing policy on the recalcitrant province, marking the second provincial court in as many months to rule in favour of the federal government on its landmark climate strategy.

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

German emitters slowed their EU Allowance buying in May as prices slipped, a government report published on Friday showed.

A red-eared slider tortoise, wild pigs, and a jaguar cooling off in the heatwave

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Trio taken to court by Cuadrilla after taking part in ‘lock-on’ at Blackpool site last year

Three anti-fracking protesters have been found to have breached an injunction designed to stop them demonstrating outside a fracking site in Lancashire, which they say has a “chilling effect on the right to peaceful protest”.

The trio were taken to court by Cuadrilla, which last year became the first firm to start large-scale fracking in Britain. The energy firm said it took legal action to prevent “dangerous, disrespectful and illegal activity” at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool.

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Finland will buy 130,000 Gold Standard CERs from developer South Pole to overcompensate for flight emissions during its upcoming six-month term holding the rotating EU Presidency.

As the continent bakes in sweltering temperatures, experts explain what's happening - and why now.

EUAs fell further below €27 early on Friday as quarter-end profit-taking saw carbon give back more of the week’s gains that had pushed prices to a two-month high.

Nasa will fly a $1bn drone helicopter on Saturn's moon, Titan, in the 2030s.

Three leading artists explain the new works they’ve created for tomorrow’s magazine (click on each artwork’s title to download a copy)

I heard some young activists chanting, “Fuck you, CO2” at the school climate strike on 24 May. It wasn’t the most profane chant I heard that day – there were a lot about politicians. But it worked well: it was short, strong – and kids just like swearing, don’t they? So I didn’t come up with this: I nicked it from the air. But by getting it down on paper, I’m giving it more life. I can imagine people putting it in a window at home, like a party-political poster. In 2017, I did something similar with Theresa May’s words in my poster Strong And Stable My Arse [which was posted around London]. Her repetition of the phrase gave it its power. I just took it and turned it into a poster.

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Three EDL-operated coal mine methane power stations earned over 330,000 carbon credits this week as Australia’s weekly offset issuance neared 800,000.

Sussan Ley adds more plants and animals to Australia’s national list of threatened species

The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has added more plants and animals to Australia’s national list of threatened species, including woodlands that had been eligible for protection for years.

Ley announced on Friday afternoon that the Nabarlek, found in the Northern Territory, had been added to Australia’s list of critically endangered mammals.

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White cedar grows across Asia and Australia, as a hardy and resilient deciduous. Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

They’re too young to vote, but schoolchildren across the globe are taking matters into their own hands

In May, for the second time this year, more than 1.5 million young people in more than 125 countries walked out of schools, colleges and universities in the biggest day of global climate action ever. Young people have protested en masse before – millions marched against the Iraq war in 2003 – but this child-led uprising is happening with unprecedented momentum on a global scale.

The urgency of their protests reflects the very narrow window of opportunity left to make positive change. We are already living outside the climate parameters that first gave rise to humans, and the world’s leading climate scientists agree that we have only 12 years to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C. Still, most governments are not doing enough to stay within these limits as set out by the United Nation’s 2015 Paris agreement.

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Renewables creating "unprecedented change" in Victorian energy system, as solar and wind prepare to replace the state's ageing coal fleet according to AEMO.

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