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Students around the world are walking out of lessons to demand politicians take urgent action on climate change

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Hundreds of school children have gathered outside Parliament in London for the latest school climate strikes. By 11am Parliament Square was packed with young people waving homemade placards and chanting.

Among them was 14 year old Ivy from Surrey. “I am here because I believe there is no point having an education if there is no future... I am so frustrated the only people who really care about this are the ones who can’t vote.”

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School pupils living in the Western Isles have come up with a smart compromise today, as this climate strike falls on the day of their annual Mod, the Gaelic language festival involving competitions in music, song and dance. While competing in the Mod they wore “I’m with Greta!” badges, designed by 12-year-old Méabh Mackenzie, who attends Daliburgh Primary on Uist and has led previous strikes.

Mackenzie said: “We want to show our solidarity with other young people who are on climate strike, and to show our continuing concerns for the threats to our home from climate change.

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Use of terms ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’ prompts reviews in other newsrooms

The Guardian’s decision to alter its style guide to better convey the environmental crises unfolding around the world has prompted some other media outlets to reconsider the terms they use in their own coverage.

After the Guardian announced it would now routinely use the words “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” instead of “climate change”, a memo was sent by the standards editor of CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster, to staff acknowledging that a “recent shift in style at the British newspaper the Guardian has prompted requests to review the language we use in global warming coverage”.

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GHG removal credits were sold for an average €26.92 on Friday on a platform led by Finnish utility Fortum, the first of three pioneering auctions designed to test the trade in the voluntary carbon market.

From Australia to Europe, school children are skipping classes to call for action on climate change.

Seven have died climbing the world's highest peak in a week - more than for the whole of last year.

Australia’s biggest-emitting company earned the lion’s share of this week’s newly issued carbon credits, receiving over 140,000 offsets.

Regional centres including Dubbo and Tamworth are expected to face a water supply crisis within months.

A Falcon-9 rocket launches from Florida, packed with 60 satellites capable of giving users on the ground high-speed connections to the internet.

Queensland Premier issues expedited deadline for Adani environmental approvals, just days after company reaches agreement on water contamination breaches

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One day in 2009, fires swept across Victoria, leaving 173 dead. It became known as Black Saturday. When it emerged that not all of these disasters were natural, local detectives sprang into action. By Chloe Hooper

The patient had been in a coma for 12 days. Strange dreams were all he could remember. He dreamed he was in a red room, then a green room, and when, finally, he woke, the walls were orange. There was flame even in the paint colour, and he knew without being told that his wife was dead. He checked his hands and was surprised to find that his fingers – put back together now, bandaged – had been saved.

His children sat next to his bed while a young police officer had positioned his chair further away, towards the back of the hospital room. All of them were waiting to hear what had happened to him two weeks earlier, on the day of Australia’s worst recorded natural disaster. It would become known as Black Saturday: 400 separate fires had burned across the southern Australian state of Victoria, giving off as much energy as 1,500 atomic bombs.

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Labor under Anthony Albanese may look overseas in its search for a way to re-engage voters on climate change, and rebrand its policy suite.

The post Albo and the Green New Deal: Sounds like a name for a band, but is it good policy? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The California firm launches the first spacecraft in its multi-billion-dollar broadband project.

"Crazy" new laws, along with delays to auctions and grid upgrades, is raising question about how serious the Queensland Labor government is about its 50% renewables target.

The post How serious is Queensland about its 50 per cent renewable energy target? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There are more than 850 different species of eucalypts in Australia, and possibly many more we don’t know about. Tim Collins, PhD candidate , University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

In the event, the federal election turned out to be more about the economy than the environment. But there are steps the Coalition government can take to help conservation and boost the economy too. Rachel Morgain, Knowledge Broker, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Bradley J. Moggridge, Indigenous Water Research, University of Canberra Brendan Wintle, Professor Conservation Ecology, University of Melbourne David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Martine Maron, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland Sarah Bekessy, Professor, RMIT University Sarah Legge, Professor, Australian National University Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New timeframe for controversial Carmichael mine is ‘good news’, Queensland premier says

The Queensland government has placed a three-week deadline on the final environmental approvals for the controversial Adani Carmichael coalmine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.

The assessment and management plan for the endangered black-throated finch is due next week, on 31 May, and a decision on the groundwater management plan is due on 13 June.

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WA is set to capitalise on rapid growth in demand for battery storage, with a surge in exploration activity for raw battery materials.

The post WA taps into boom for raw materials for EV and storage batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Organisers say more than 1.4 million young people are set to protest about the climate crisis

Hundreds of thousands of children and young people are walking out of lessons around the world on Friday as the school strike movement continues to snowball.

Climate strikes are planned in more than 1,400 cities in more than 110 countries. Organisers say the number of young people taking part is set to top the 1.4 million people who participated in the global day of strikes in March.

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Newly discovered species could soon be the first reptile on the Australian mainland to be declared extinct

A newly reclassified species of lizard that is native to areas now paved by Melbourne’s suburbs could become the first reptile on mainland Australia to be declared extinct.

A taxonomic survey of the grassland earless dragon, published in the Royal Society Open Science journal this week, discovered that the species classified as Tympanocryptis pinguicolla was in fact four species – one of which has not been seen since 1969.

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