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New Hampshire’s House of Representatives approved a RGGI bill Thursday that would increase funding to energy efficiency projects and removes a clause that would force the state out of the northeast US ETS.

Report looks at 16 conflict areas and calls for military to stop targeting water resources

Diarrhoea and other diseases related to poor sanitation are bigger killers of children in areas of conflict than violence and war itself, a report has found, highlighting the need for improved infrastructure as a way of helping civilian populations afflicted by warfare.

Children under five are more than 20 times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases than from direct violence, according to Unicef. Henrietta Fore, the organisation’s executive director, said: “The reality is there are more children who die from lack of access to safe water than by bullets.”

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

Parts of southern Africa have been left devastated after Cyclone Idai swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, destroying towns and villages in its path.

The Cuvier's beaked whale was found in the Philippines, filled with 16 rice sacks and multiple shopping bags.

Failure to protect wildlife, cut pollution and increase funding have left nature in ‘deep crisis’

The UK will miss almost all the 2020 nature targets it signed up to a decade ago, according to a report by the government’s official advisers.

The nation is failing to protect threatened species, end the degradation of land, reduce agricultural pollution and increase funding for green schemes, the assessment concludes. It also says the UK is not ending unsustainable fishing, stopping the arrival of invasive alien species nor raising public awareness of the importance of biodiversity.

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Three images of Jupiter are combined to make a striking new image of the planet and its famous spot.

Power companies covered by South Korea’s emissions trading scheme likely emitted some 2.5 million tonnes CO2 more in 2018 than previously estimated, sparking additional KAU demand in the run-in to the June 30 compliance deadline, analysts said Friday.

Carbon credit issuance in Australia picked up this week after a slow period as the Clean Energy Regulator handed out well over half a million offsets.

Conservationists retract their findings, after evidence for the bird's discovery is disputed.

Science agency says scourge of wandering trad could be slowed by fungus, which they have called its ‘natural pathogen’

Australia’s national science agency will release a Brazilian leaf smut fungus to target and kill an invasive weed that covers large parts of the continent’s east coast.

Researchers from the CSIRO say the scourge of wandering trad could be slowed by the introduction of the Kordyana brasiliensis fungus, which they have called its “natural pathogen”.

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The moss that grows in pavement cracks and on the edge of basketball courts in every town and city in Australia has a secret superpower. Alison Haynes, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal was suppressed for years – while we should have been driving electric cars. By Beth Gardiner

John German had not been looking to make a splash when he commissioned an examination of pollution from diesel cars back in 2013. The exam compared what came out of their exhausts, during the lab tests that were required by law, with emissions on the road under real driving conditions. German and his colleagues at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in the US just wanted to tie up the last loose ends in a big report, and thought the research would give them something positive to say about diesel. They might even be able to offer tips to Europe from the US’s experience in getting the dirty fuel to run a little cleaner.

But that was not how it turned out. They chose a Volkswagen Jetta as their first test subject, and a VW Passat next. Regulators in California agreed to do the routine certification test for them, and the council hired researchers from West Virginia University to then drive the same cars through cities, along highways and into the mountains, using equipment that tests emissions straight from the cars’ exhausts.

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University of Queensland researcher Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg has been named as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate policy for 2019.

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As NSW prepares to vote in a too-close-to-call election, the silence on the hot-button policy issues of climate change and renewable energy is deafening.

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Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s claim of finding traces of rare bird questioned by investigation

The Australian Wildlife Conservancy has had to retract research it published about the endangered night parrot after an investigation into whether sightings of the parrot were staged.

An independent panel investigated evidence that was used to support reports published by the conservation group that claimed to have found traces of the elusive bird at Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary in South Australia and Diamantina National Park in Queensland.

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Former head of a solar company plans to re-open Redbank coal fired generator in the Hunter Valley, once described as the most polluting in Australia.

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Renewables share jumps to 21.2 per cent as wind and solar displace coal and gas, but transport emissions soar as government dodges electric vehicle policies.

The post Australia renewables share rises to 21.2%, but transport emissions soar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The transition to 100% renewables is still not taken seriously by many in the energy industry. It should be.

The post It’s time Australia got serious about shift to 100% renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A novel blend of old and new technology is helping Australian researchers combine renewable energy and low-cost thermal storage to deliver heat for industrial processes.

The post Renewable thermal solution provides green alternative for gas-hungry industries appeared first on RenewEconomy.