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We need a global treaty to combat plastic pollution, but a small group of countries is blocking real action. Trisia Farrelly, Senior Lecturer, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tourists hoping to photograph a bloom of wild poppies briefly shut down a California canyon.

A year into the crisis, industry and campaigners are frustrated. What’s happened to the circular economy and container deposit schemes?

Ahead of the New South Wales election, the national Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association has called for more of the state’s waste levy to go towards funding a reboot of Australia’s recycling industry to help to end the year-long crisis.

Speaking at a waste summit earlier this month, organised by the peak body of NSW’s local councils, WMRR’s chief executive, Gayle Sloan, said 50% of the state’s waste levy should go back into funding recycling. The president of the Local Government Association of NSW, Linda Scott, said it should be 100%. Currently around 20% of the levy is reinvested into waste management nationally.

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Connecticut’s two electric utility companies struck a deal Friday with Dominion Energy to keep its zero-emitting Millstone Nuclear Plant from early retirement, while the six New England governors also signed an agreement to cooperate on bolstering nuclear power in the US region.

Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is aiming to send its RGGI cap-and-trade regulation to the state's Air Pollution Control Board for final approval by mid-April, a state official said.

What exotic processes occur on the world known as 16 Psyche? A Nasa mission will soon find out.

Old weather data reveals how the UK's highest mountain can experience periods of near-zero humidity.

The European Commission will release preliminary raw data on 2018 EU ETS emissions on Apr. 1, it said on Monday, figures that are expected to show a resumption of the market’s declining trend.

Environment Agency says flooding expected early this week for rivers Dee and Severn

Flood warnings remain in place across parts of England after torrential rain over the weekend.

There were 20 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, and 28 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, in force on Monday morning, mostly in Yorkshire and the Midlands. None of the warnings are in the most severe category.

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The whale that washed up in the Philippines had ingested 16 rice sacks and "multiple" shopping bags.

OneWeb secures new funding enabling it to speed up plans for a global high-speed broadband network.

Delegates at UN environment assembly say the oil producers are protecting their industries

The United States and Saudi Arabia have hamstrung global efforts to scrutinise climate geoengineering in order to benefit their fossil fuel industries, according to multiple sources at the United Nations environment assembly, taking place this week in Nairobi.

The world’s two biggest oil producers reportedly led opposition against plans to examine the risks of climate-manipulating technology such as sucking carbon out of the air, reflective mirrors in space, seeding the oceans and injecting particulates into the atmosphere.

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Backyard burial for your beloved animals raises some surprising problems. Rachel Allavena, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

German-based Senec chosen to supply home battery systems for Horizon Power’s solar and storage microgrid in coastal Pilbara town of Onslow.

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Three days after the official launch of Tesla's Model Y compact electric SUV, verdicts are now being delivered.

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Marine biologists horrified to find 16 rice sacks and multiple shopping bags inside curvier beaked whale

A young whale that washed up in the Philippines died from “gastric shock” after ingesting 40kg of plastic bags.

Marine biologists and volunteers from the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, in the Philippine island of Mindanao, were shocked to discover the brutal cause of death for the young curvier beaked whale, which washed ashore on Saturday.

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The fireball is the second most powerful in 30 years and the biggest since one over Chelyabinsk in 2013.

Shell to take on Australian energy utilities within decade, trading power and servicing homes and businesses who will be "totally electric" for their power, heating and transport needs.

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A new round of solar powered election promises are being unveiled around the country, with just five working days until the NSW election, and a matter of weeks until the federal poll.

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Oliver Yates to encourage councils to use Environmental Upgrade Agreements to encourage more people to use solar and storage.

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