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Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has reversed its bullish view on EU carbon amid falling natural gas prices, with growing LNG supplies expected to exert further pressure.

Survey reveals backing for emissions charging to tackle air pollution and congestion

Almost three-quarters of Londoners support charging drivers of dirty vehicles in an effort to tackle the capital’s air pollution crisis, according to a study.

The survey, released on the day the mayor, Sadiq Khan, launches his ultra low emissions zone (ULEZ), found that 72% of adults in London support emissions charging to tackle both air pollution and congestion.

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Earth observation satellites are proving to be valuable tools in protecting rare sharks, say scientists.

Five doses of some inhalers are the equivalent of a nine-mile car journey, NHS advisory body says.

The Green Climate Fund has held its first meeting in a process the UN-led entity hopes will lead to an October session where rich countries will refill its coffers.

Some rare species enjoyed their best year since monitoring began but there were declines for the small tortoiseshell and peacock

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Big Cypress national park finds a 17ft snake weighing 140lb and carrying 73 developing eggs.

Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’

Scientists and officials around the US have told the Guardian that the Trump administration has withdrawn funding for a large, successful conservation program – in direct contradiction of instructions from Congress.

Unique in scale and ambition, the program comprises 22 research centers that tackle big-picture issues affecting huge swaths of the US, such as climate change, flooding and species extinction. They are known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives – or were, because 16 of them are now on indefinite hiatus or have dissolved.

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Country Drive: Nucoal, Murray Darling and Sprigs of rosemary

The Institute for Ecological Economics is currently inviting applications for a 30-40 hours/week third-party-funded project staff member (post-doc) Climate Economics and Finance Research Group.

Members of the Queensland Liberal National Party believe Environment Minister Melissa Price is dragging her feet in signing off on the mine's groundwater management plan.

Protestors shut down one of Melbourne's busiest intersections during peak-hour this morning, others broke into abattoirs and farms where they released animals and threatened farmers.

CPI has recently been asked by the membership of the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance to assume the role of the organization’s Secretariat for a minimum two-year period beginning in May 2019.

The facts on electric vehicles to fight back against the slew of fake news from the Coalition and One Nation.

The post Coalition scrapes bottom of barrel with campaign against EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hot summer of 2018 boosted large blue, and black hairstreak, but small tortoiseshell declined

The golden summer of 2018 saw two of the UK’s rarest butterflies, the large blue and the black hairstreak, enjoy their best years since scientific monitoring began.

More than two-thirds of British butterfly species were seen in higher numbers last year than in 2017, but despite the ideal butterfly weather, it was still only an average season – the 18th best in 43 years of recording.

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Evie, 11, has been campaigning to have a statue of one of her heroes - 19th-Century palaeontologist Mary Anning - erected in Lyme Regis. Find out more about her mission.

There remains a massive workload to manage the NEM transition. No doubt the regulatory bodies are trying hard, but we're not sure they are winning.

The post Know your NEM: Grid transition growing pains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Construction of Tasmania's 112MW Granville Harbour wind farm well underway – a project expected to boost the state's total wind power capacity by one-third.

The post Construction underway at Tasmania’s Granville Harbour wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Some Queensland MPs push for sign-off before the election, which is likely to amplify activist campaigns against the Coalition

Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg have played down the significance of remaining approvals for the controversial Adani coalmine, characterising the outstanding determinations as “sub-approvals” and “minor” matters, and insisting the government will make decisions based on science.

With some Queensland Liberals and Nationals escalating an internal campaign for the remaining Adani sign-offs to be done this week, before Morrison heads to the polls, Liberals in the southern states are now bracing themselves for the federal approvals to be granted some time this week, even though that timing is inconvenient because it will kickstart third-party activist campaigns against the Coalition.

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