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We bulldoze their habitat. And if they survive that, their world is getting hotter. Then there’s pollution and fire. The outlook for amphibians is poor.

About 70 creatures found washed up on coast of North America but federal agency believes it is a small fraction of total fatalities

US government scientists have launched an investigation what has caused the deaths of an unusually high number of gray whales found washed up on the west coast of North America.

About 70 whales have been found dead so far this year on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, the most since 2000. About five more have been discovered on British Columbia beaches.

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With water restrictions now in place across Australia, there are plenty of easy ways to save water – and a few creative solutions

For the first time in a decade, water restrictions come into force in Sydney on Saturday due to dwindling dam levels and the ongoing drought.

On Wednesday, the state government announced that everyone in Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra must stick to the stage one restrictions, including using trigger nozzles, restricted times for watering lawns and gardens, and spot-cleaning hard surfaces only in the case of an emergency.

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Young people across the country to hold day of action on Saturday highlighting lawsuit as youth-driven climate movement grows

Students in Austin, Texas, want you to veg out. Kids in Westport, Connecticut will screen a film. And in rural North Carolina, activists will draw on a toxic spill to commemorate the environmental justice movement.

All of these rallies will be part of an international campaign on Saturday to spotlight environmental issues. Their message: I Am Juliana.

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Environment America is seeking someone for its two-year fellowship program to help the organisation mobilize the support it takes to build more solar and wind power, reduce global warming pollution, keep our beaches, rivers and streams clean, protect our wildlife and wild places, and hold polluters accountable when they violate our environmental laws.

Have we found some of the technologies that can finally help us survey Earth's unknown depths?

Muttonbird Island in NSW is a place of majesty. It's just that the majesty crash lands in the moonlight and sounds like a squeezy toy.

California regulator ARB released a $1.36 million settlement agreement on Thursday with fuel refiner and marketer Tesoro for misreporting six years’ worth of data under the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), including several million gallons of deficit-generating fuel.

The Business Development Manager will have strong commercial acumen and play a pivotal role in Carbonsink’s growth strategy in Europe. They will report directly to the Managing Directors.

European carbon prices plunged to a one-month low on Friday, as bearish energy and supply-side fundamentals weighed heavily.

California regulator ARB does not believe criticism of its cap-and-trade programme's forestry offset protocol raised by a recent policy brief merits any changes to the methodology, because the study included numerous inaccuracies, according to an agency presentation.

The US EPA released its final rule on Friday for allowing year-round sales of 15% ethanol blends and increasing transparency in the biofuel credit (RIN) market under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), but the agency dropped several proposed restrictions on credit trading for the time being.

A frog, an albino panda and a ‘seabed garden’

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The TechDemoSat spacecraft deploys a large membrane to pull itself out of the sky.

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

Exclusive: Companies bidding for public sector contracts must ‘put people and planet before profit’

Companies bidding for public sector contracts will be forced to take radical steps to tackle the climate crisis under new regulations being proposed by the Labour party, addressing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and waste.

If elected, the party would force suppliers to “put people and planet before profit”, with the threat of losing contracts if they do not, in a stark redrawing of priorities for contract bidders.

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The UK has not used coal to generate electricity since 17 May, the longest period since the 1880s,

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued fewer than 130,000 carbon credits this week, while only one new project was registered.

Queensland is set to triple its electric car charging network from 17 charging sites to more than 50.

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