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Sydney's $2.3 billion desalination plant has been turned on for the first time in six years, as the city's dam levels fall below 60 per cent.

The possible bankruptcy of California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) could prompt future changes to the state's cap-and-trade regulations depending on the outcome of Chapter 11 proceedings, but the company can't immediately unwind any renewable energy contracts without federal approval.

California carbon market participants need additional counterparties who can hold volume for future use amid the rising WCI allowance surplus and tightening holding limits, numerous sources said.

An Ontario Superior Court justice ruled Friday that a green group’s challenge to the provincial government’s cancellation of its WCI-linked carbon market last year can continue, but a final ruling for the petitioners this spring would not bring back the scrapped ETS.

WCI, Inc. is seeking a qualified Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in either its Sacramento or Quebec City offices.

Communities in the far west of New South Wales are growingly increasingly anxious about the availability of water — for both drinking and their crops.

New satellite-based research shows there is at least as much value in knowing how much water is left for plants to use as there is in knowing how much rain may be on the way. Siyuan Tian, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Councils say lack of funding and rock-bottom recycling prices is hampering efforts to build better infrastructure and reinvigorate dying market

Recycling is being stockpiled and council authorities fear it will soon head to landfill, as Australia’s recycling crisis continues to take its toll on the industry.

More than a year after China refused to accept 99% of the world’s recycling, halting the export of more than one million tonnes of Australian waste each year, the heads of local government warn the recycling market is still in trouble.

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The Rainbow Warrior III has spent the past two months sailing Australia’s southern waters, bolstering the fight to protect the bight

The ship sets sail and we brace our legs against the swell, sweeping and mopping around the cabins. Countering the tilt we work quickly and silently, trying not to wake any crew who had been on watch the previous night. Not even celebrities and photographers are spared the daily 8am chores, the ship’s third mate, Amrit Bakshi, tells us later, laughing.

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Thousands of lakes are set to lose their ice cover within a generation due to rising temperatures.

EUAs tumbled by more than a euro to below €23 on Monday amid speculation that Germany’s coal phaseout deal would prompt big-emitting utilities to unwind generation hedges.

Mallard who lived in a roadside puddle is found dead after being attacked by dogs

Trevor the duck, whose tale of loneliness on the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue made him a local celebrity and captured headlines last year, has died.

He was found dead in the bush after being attacked by dogs, according to a social media page dedicated to the drake.

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The UK's Ministry of Defence approaches an Oxford start-up to help design a sovereign satellite radar system.

Desert lion population learning to hunt marine life to survive harsh conditions on Skeleton Coast

Lions in Namibia have turned to hunting seabirds and seals in the face of scarce food resources in the arid desert landscape, new research has found.

The desert lions, which are found exclusively within the Skeleton Coast region of Namibia, are the only lions known to target marine life. Among the creatures they have been recorded eating are fur seals, flamingos and cormorants.

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NSW Department of Primary Industries confirms another spate of fish deaths in the Darling River near Menindee.

For years, Liberia fought a losing battle against the foreign vessels plundering its coastline. Then a bold new approach sent fines – and arrests – soaring

Petty officer George Kromah, of the Liberian coastguard, slings his AK47 across his back before disappearing over the side of the Sam Simon, joining his colleagues in the rib below. The boat roars off, quickly followed by a second, speeding through the choppy Atlantic swell in pursuit of a suspected illegal fishing vessel that has crossed into Liberia’s territorial waters from Sierra Leone.

Kromah and his fellow officers are on the frontline of the little nation’s ill-matched crackdown on fisheries crime – which Interpol has linked with the trafficking of drugs and people, as well as fraud and tax evasion.

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Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs which contain drugs that fight cancer.

Footage submitted by Menindee tourism operator Rob Gregory shows thousands of dead fish floating on the surface of the Darling River after the third major fish kill in a matter of weeks. Gregory identifies 'masses and masses' of carp, 'all struggling next to dead bony bream' 

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Analysis by Guardian and Friends of the Earth raises questions about impartiality in post-Brexit reform

Dozens of MPs and peers, including some with vast inherited wealth, own or manage farms that collectively have received millions of pounds in European Union subsidies.

An analysis by the Guardian and the environmental group Friends of the Earth identified 48 parliamentarians who claimed £5.7m in farming subsidies under the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) in 2017, the latest year for which figures are available.

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In tightly controlled Queensland laboratories, scientists are testing foreign bugs as a way to manage invasive species

Wading through Paraguayan wetlands last year, the CSIRO scientist Raghu Sathyamurthy was on the lookout for an aquatic plant called cabomba. Or more specifically, for the eggs of a tiny weevil known to feast on this underwater legume.

Cabomba isn’t particularly conspicuous in the wetlands around Asunción, but back in Australia, it’s choking waterways along the east coast and is one of 32 weeds classed as nationally significant.

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