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A team races against time and the elements to save 95-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in the Aussie outback.

Fossil fuel subsidies can drastically skew the overall impact of carbon pricing, according to new research that found the UK transport sector facing an net impact of more than £200/tCO2 (€230, $260) while some EU ETS-covered sectors face only £2.

Australia agrees to discard of one million tonnes of waste in world's largest coral reef.

Hobbyists say Jackson Oswalt of Tennessee is youngest person to achieve fusion

An American 14-year-old has reportedly become the youngest known person in the world to create a successful nuclear reaction.

The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, a hobbyist group, has recognised the achievement by Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, when he was aged 12 in January 2018.

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Scottish pilot Dave Mackay pushes Virgin Galactic's rocket plane faster and higher than it's ever been.

Traffic blocked at Department for Education during call for national curriculum changes

More than 100 teachers, academics and students have blocked traffic and staged mock climate classes outside the Department for Education in a protest against the underplaying of environmental problems in the national curriculum.

The demonstrators – who carried Teach the Truth, Rebel for Life and Climate: More Important Than Brexit banners – urged the government to make the climate and ecological crisis an educational priority.

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Pangolins, a mountain lion and a sad good-bye to Papua New Guinea’s Bramble Cay melomys

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Exclusive: birds and eggs from 70 species, some rare, have been licensed for destruction

The government’s conservation watchdog has issued licences to destroy 170,000 wild birds, eggs and nests, including rare and declining species such as curlews and swifts, in the past five years.

Natural England has given permission to kill birds of more than 70 species, or have their nests and eggs destroyed. These include peregrine falcons, barn owls, buzzards and red kites, alongside garden favourites such as robins, blackbirds and blue tits. A licence was even issued to destroy a wrens’ nest to “preserve public safety” in South Yorkshire.

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A cold, wet March could prove problematic for animals now out of hibernation

• Early spring: share your photographs and stories

Spring is arriving early with swallows, frogspawn and unexpected perfume as temperatures soar up to 20C above this time last year when Britain was blasted by the “beast from the east”.

Rooks are nesting, ladybirds are mating and dozens of migratory swallows have been spotted along the south-west coast – more than a month ahead of their normal arrival.

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We want your help documenting the situation as record temperatures bring early signs of spring across Europe

• Naturalists concerned for early-emerging spring species in UK

After one of the hottest summers ever in 2018 and a mild winter across much of Europe, record temperatures are suggesting spring is once more beginning earlier than usual.

Swallows and house martins have been spotted more than a month earlier than usual and temperatures are up to 20C higher than this time last year. We’re looking for your help documenting signs of the situation where you are, and would like to see your pictures and hear about what you are seeing as well as how you feel about it.

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

A government report recommends lifting a four-year ban on hunting elephants.

Germany’s environment ministry wants to set a 2050 domestic emission cut goal of at least 95%, laying out its first draft Climate Action law as part of a law-making process that is likely to face heavy pushback.

Swiss firm South Pole has sold its majority stake in Australian carbon offset project developer Climate Friendly back to the company.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator this week issued nearly 90,000 carbon credits, a tenfold increase from last week’s low but still less than half of average issuances.

Informed students are prompting adults to act on the issue

I draw three circles on the board as my class watches.

“So, what might this gas be?”

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In part two of our series, indigenous Siona people claim their health is being affected by apparent contamination of river

María Isaura Cuaran, an indigenous Siona woman, is displaying a rash that has appeared at the base of her neck. It is barely visible, but there nonetheless. Pulling her turquoise top off her left shoulder and tugging down on her bead necklace, Cuaran talks about “the company” and how, she alleges, it has affected the local river.

“Stomach problems, coughing, fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, welts, little spots, little blotches, general malaise …”

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National cycle crime strategy set to launch after survey finds 50% of victims feel police don’t take the offence seriously

For many people a bicycle is the only transport they can afford and the only exercise they get. These people are often among society’s most vulnerable, and the impact of the loss of their bike can be devastating. So why is cycle theft so often seen as a minor crime?

According to the police, 96,210 bikes were stolen in 2018, and about one in 50 bicycle-owning households are victims of cycle theft each year, but it’s a crime disproportionately visited on the young and the poor.

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EV startup Nio named as one of China's most innovative companies by American monthly business magazine Fast Company.

The post China EV start-up makes best innovators list appeared first on RenewEconomy.

My Outlander PHEV taught me fuel economy and slashed our emissions. Now, it's gone up in smoke and our off-grid family is wondering what to choose next.

The post My Outlander PHEV was written off in a bush fire. Where to now? appeared first on RenewEconomy.