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Simply giving the Commonwealth more power won't fix the Murray-Darling Basin crisis. Adam Webster, Departmental Lecturer in Law and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An elephant calf was coaxed out of Dipor Bil, northern India, after it became separated from its mother. Officials managed to encourage the elephant out of the lake and into the safety of the forest, although it had yet to be reunited with its mother

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges world leaders to follow science advice on climate change.

AEMO confirms big de-ratings for some wind and solar farms, but the news is not so bad for some installations that get a reprieve after new calculations were made.

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A quick tour of the big stores shows they could do much more to cut out plastic

Craig Curtis, the new president of the Recycling Association, is staring with exasperation at the aisle full of salad leaves. He presses a bag of rocket.

“Do you hear that?” he says, as the plastic crackles. “That’s laminated. One sort of plastic on the outside, and a totally different sort on the other.” He shakes his head at the supermarket display. “You can’t recycle it. It just goes into waste. If these things were made from one polymer, we could recycle all of it.”

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Mass-breeding of the highly intelligent creatures is ecologically unjustified, a new study says

Plans to create octopus farms in coastal waters round the world have been denounced by an international group of researchers. They say the move is ethically inexcusable and environmentally dangerous, and have called on private companies, academic institutions and governments to block funding for these ventures.

The researchers say that farming octopuses would require the catching of vast amounts of fish and shellfish to feed them, putting further pressure on the planet’s already threatened marine livestock.

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Containers holding more than 1,600 of endangered species’ eggs placed in remote areas of Mt Kosciuszko national park

A few days before the United Nations released a report warning that 1 million species, including 40% of all amphibians, could become extinct within decades, staff from Melbourne zoo were nursing chilled containers of frogs’ eggs to be taken to remote areas of sphagnum bog in the Mt Kosciuszko national park.

The containers held 1,673 fertilised eggs of the critically endangered southern corroboree frog, a species near the top of Australia’s extinction watchlist.

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Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.

This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings. We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too. But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.

This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings. We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too. But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.

This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings. We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too. But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.

Australia was once home to a range of massive animals - giant wombats, oversized kangaroos and mega-lizards that would have rivalled those of the Serengeti.

Planes going to the finals in Spain and Azerbaijan will emit 35,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide – climate activists want change

Controversy has erupted over the environmental impact of football fans travelling across Europe in coming weeks – to watch English sides play each other hundreds of miles from home.

Campaigners say staging games between Liverpool and Tottenham in Madrid and Arsenal and Chelsea in Baku, in Azerbaijan, will trigger the release of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide from planes carrying supporters to the Champions League and Europa League finals.

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Review will assess impact of dirty air on health and will support NHS efforts to go green

The health secretary has described polluted air as a “slow and deadly poison” and warned of a growing national health emergency.

Matt Hancock has commissioned a review of the impact of dirty air on health, including updated estimates of the number of new cases of illness that could be caused by air pollution by 2035.

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Britain’s net zero by 2050 goal may have impact on whether existing policies are reassessed

Britain’s move to “net zero” carbon and the declaration of a climate emergency in parliament will be “given careful consideration” in deciding whether to grant a review of Heathrow airport’s expansion, the government has said.

The new approach falls well short of any commitment to review Heathrow’s expansion, but means the decision on whether to grant campaigners’ request for a review will include the net zero target and the climate emergency among its criteria.

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As changing climate impacts agriculture and water storage, Lewis Dartnell says some populations will need to relocate.

The UK may need to review expansion of aviation to meet CO2 targets, the government admits.

As part of Te Papa, a new $12m immersive nature exhibition at New Zealand's national museum, perfumer Francesco van Eerd has distilled the unusually strong scents of the country's native birds. 'I just love smells,' he says. The exhibition, Te Taiao Nature, amounts to the biggest ever investment in a museum exhibition in the country – and also includes a life-like recreation of the now extinct giant Haast eagle and moa bird. 

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Engineers are making sure their joint European-Russian rover will perform as expected on the Red Planet.