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Navigating Australia's recycling crisis is even harder during festive seasons. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Jenni Downes, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Chefs won’t use red-listed seafood including farmed Atlantic salmon and east coast wild prawns

Sustainably sourced fish will be top of the menu in some of Australia’s best restaurants after 40 well-known chefs signed up to the Australian Marine Conservation Society’s Good Fish project.

The restaurants have all pledged not to source or serve seafood that is red-listed in the Sustainable Seafood Guide, published by the society.

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The study could aid medical research and fuel debate about the difference between life and death.

Readers share their views on Extinction Rebellion, activism and the importance of implementing systemic change to prevent an ecological catastrophe

Our unsustainable lifestyles and commitment to perpetual economic growth have become the major drivers of climate change and loss of biodiversity on Earth (Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse, 15 April). Our politicians fail to grasp the scale and urgency of the risk humanity faces. The UK signed up to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015, but has yet to develop a coherent and rigorous national plan for their domestic and international implementation.

Encouragingly, the SDGs form a new roadmap for our future that in principle aligns the economy with the Earth’s life support systems. Yet, a recent report by the Stockholm Resilience Centre shows that attempting to achieve the socioeconomic goals using conventional growth policies would make it virtually impossible to reduce the speed of global warming and environmental degradation.

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More than 300 were arrested in London as protesters continued to block roads in the capital and across Europe

• Climate activists chain themselves up outside Jeremy Corbyn’s house

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Police cells filling rapidly, with reports of detainees taken to Luton, Brighton and Essex

There have been more than 300 arrests linked to the Extinction Rebellion protests across London and reports suggest that London’s cells are rapidly filling.

The Metropolitan police would not release up-to-date figures on its cell capacity but data two years ago showed they had 799 cells available across the capital. With cuts to policing budgetsthis number is likely to have fallen, so reports that cell space is under pressure are credible.

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Three Extinction Rebellion campaigners glued themselves to a train at London's Canary Wharf.

Kakapos were one of New Zeland's most common birds, but they are now on the brink of extinction.

Protesters climb on carriages as others cause disruption at four sites in West End

Climate activists have glued themselves to the top of a train on a London railway line, in an escalation of the civil disobedience protests that have been blocking road junctions in the capital since Monday.

Two activists linked to the Extinction Rebellion group climbed on to carriages at Canary Wharf station on the Docklands Light Railway, bringing services to a halt in the financial hub.

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A wildlife campaigner says he believes the spikes are to stop birds from messing on cars.

A survey by Triple J shows young Australians are most concerned about climate change and the environment.

Climate Change and Energy Spokesman Mark Butler insists power prices will fall under Labor's scheme.

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Battery costs will amount to a quarter of the total cost of making an electric car within 6 years, BloombergNEF analysis says.

The post Electric cars cheaper than petrol/diesel from 2022, as battery costs plummet appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Alberta's United Conservative Party (UCP) and leader Jason Kenney were elected in a landslide victory in the Canadian province on Tuesday, ending the ruling NDP's two-year old carbon pricing programme and setting up multiple battles with the federal government over the party's pledged climate policy rollbacks.

Financial sector warned it risks losses from extreme weather and its stakes in polluting firms

The global financial system faces an existential threat from climate change and must take urgent steps to reform, the governors of the Bank of England and France’s central bank have warned, writing in the Guardian.

In an article published in the Guardian on Wednesday aimed at the international financial community, Mark Carney, the Bank’s governor, and Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of the Banque de France, said financial regulators, banks and insurers around the world had to “raise the bar” to avoid catastrophe.

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Jimmy Barnes drives a Tesla on holidays and says he can’t wait to make the switch to electric cars, joining other notable Australians.

The post Singer Jimmy Barnes joins big name Australians supporting electric vehicles appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla says grid blue-print should reflect lower costs for batteries, as well as longer life-span and greater efficiencies.

The post Tesla wants grid blue-print to reflect lower battery costs, greater flexibility appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An appeal to the full court of the Federal Court still stands in the way of Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine. Kristen Lyons, Professor Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland Morgan Brigg, Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Full time jobs in renewable energy increased across the board in 2016-17, led by industry growth in two of Australia’s most coal-dependent states, NSW and Queensland.

The post Renewables job numbers hit three-year high – led by Australia’s coal states appeared first on RenewEconomy.