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The messages from Labor’s 2019 election post-mortem are clear. Have a better strategy. Have a stronger narrative, fewer policies, greater emphasis on economic growth. Have a better leader.

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Shoppers in a Sheffield mall told not to leave by police and many trains cancelled after heavy rain

Hours of torrential rain in parts of northern England caused a stream to burst its banks, engulfing nearby cars and causing a Christmas lights switch-on to be cancelled.

Motorists were warned to avoid flooded roads as Blackburn Brook, a tributary of the River Don in South Yorkshire, overflowed into nearby streets with people abandoning their cars.

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Groups say hundreds of millions of dollars in funding required along with stipulation public agencies use recycled material

Environment ministers have been told Scott Morrison’s promise to introduce a waste export ban is doomed to fail unless they change tack and back it with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and a requirement that public agencies use recycled material.

Federal, state and territory environment ministers meet on Friday in Adelaide, where they are due to announce a timetable to end the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres. The prime minister has said he expected the ban to start next year.

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The Oregon Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) recorded a nearly 15,000 credit surplus during the second quarter of 2019 after posting its largest-ever deficit over the previous three months, state data showed Wednesday.

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Bird suffers 51% decline over five years but some species show signs of recovery

The turtle dove, Britain’s most endangered bird, continues to plummet towards extinction, its numbers having halved over five years, according to the latest data.

The turtle dove’s 51% decline from 2013 to 2017 is the most drastic of a continuing slump for a quarter of farmland bird species.

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Defra figures show 8% rise over last year, with most cases involving household rubbish

Councils had to clear up more than a million incidents of fly-tipping last year in England, as figures show the problem continues to rise.

Local authorities reported 1,072,000 incidents in 2018-19, up 8% on the 998,000 cases in 2017-18, the latest statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) revealed.

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EUAs climbed back above €25 early on Thursday to keep within their recent range, despite another weak auction further bearish economic data.

Marc Raibert tells BBC News he nudged his daughter over just to work out how people balance.

Participants in South Korea’s emissions trading scheme have banked 35.5 million 2018 vintage carbon allowances into 2019, the government said Thursday, some 6% of total annual allocation.

Shell expects a surge in demand for voluntary carbon credits after witnessing an immediate uptake from customers when it launched its own programmes, according the oil major’s executive tasked with making good on the company’s three-year $300 million nature commitment.

New Zealand on Thursday adopted legislation that obligates it to cut biological methane emissions 24-47% below 2017 levels by mid-century and cut all other greenhouse gases to zero by 2050.

Twenty years of climate change campaigning has been a failure. Extinction Rebellion says civil disobedience is the answer. So is it time to take to the streets?

As the Coalition announces more support measures, the drought coordinator says conditions are likely to get worse

Drought is not a natural disaster and must be accepted as an enduring feature of the Australian landscape which climate change is only going to make worse, the drought coordinator has reported, warning the nation may see some areas become “more marginal and unproductive” as a result.

The Morrison government released the drought strategy report by Maj Gen Stephen Day at the same time it announced its latest drought support measures, having struck a deal with the South Australian government for another 100GL of water from the Murray River.

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Nearly half of Tory voters back plan, compared with 16% who back party’s 2050 target

A majority of the UK public and almost half of Conservative voters support a radical plan to transform the economy and tackle the climate crisis, a poll suggests.

YouGov found that 56% of people back the total decarbonisation of the UK economy by 2030 and just under half support public spending to make large swathes of public transport free to use.

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Pollution stretches across 2,400km of coastline, with scientists fearing contamination of food chain

Hundreds of kilometres of mangroves and coral reefs, as well as humpback whale breeding grounds, are under threat from an oil spill that has polluted more than 2,400km of Brazil’s north-eastern coast in the last two months.

The Brazilian Navy, which has deployed 8,500 personnel, 30 ships and 17 aircraft in the cleanup operation, said this week that 4,200 tonnes of oil have been removed from beaches, amid fears by scientists that some has already entered the food chain.

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The BBC met the driver of Bloodhound - part racing car and part spaceship - during testing in South Africa.

Slump in new sales of petrol and diesel vehicles in Australia continues, with sales down again in October with the exception of hybrid and electric vehicles, which have risen again.

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BHP says shareholders should be praising its efforts, rather than demanding it quit pro-coal lobby groups.

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New battery technology that could significantly reduce the price of electric cars and home battery systems takes major step towards commercialisation.

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