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Irrigator groups are defending a program putting billions of dollars into the pockets of their members, while allegedly failing to return water to the Murray-Darling river system.

The US president did not mention climate change, but spoke of improvements to the economy and pollution.

Quebec will intervene on behalf of fellow conservative-led province Saskatchewan's Supreme Court appeal against the Canadian federal government’s ‘backstop’ carbon pricing plan, it announced on Monday.

Global heating is threatening supplies of water needed in large volumes to cool reactors

Enthusiasts describe nuclear power as an essential tool to combat the climate emergency because, unlike renewables, it is a reliable source of base load power.

This is a spurious claim because power stations are uniquely vulnerable to global heating. They need large quantities of cooling water to function, however the increasing number of heatwaves are threatening this supply.

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We need to understand what a swallow's nest is really for – and it is not mainly for sleeping. Graham Fulton, PhD student, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Exclusive: Democrats to introduce resolution in House on Tuesday in recognition of extreme threat from global heating

A group of US lawmakers including 2020 Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders are proposing to declare the climate crisis an official emergency – a significant recognition of the threat taken after considerable pressure from environment groups.

Related: Donald Trump's five most dangerous attacks on the environment

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We are recruiting a Research Fellow (perhaps a Senior Research Fellow for an exceptional candidate) to work on projects related to breaking fossil fuel lock-in and promoting just transitions away from fossil fuel extraction.

Many of the activities of CNG start with the calculation of the carbon footprint of an organization or the Life Cycle Analysis of a product. These calculations are indicative as to where the largest CO2 reduction can be achieved and how progress can best be monitored. The Impact Specialist decides how the calculations are carried out throughout the chain. Choices related to emission factors, scopes and boundaries are made transparent.

Business group IETA is urging EU member states to cancel EUAs when they implement coal power phaseouts to avoid a collapse in carbon prices.

Grounded Icelandic airline WOW Air has been hit with a record €27 million penalty for non-compliance under the EU ETS.

CO2 in bedrooms and offices may affect cognition and cause kidney and bone problems

Indoor levels of carbon dioxide could be clouding our thinking and may even pose a wider danger to human health, researchers say.

While air pollutants such as tiny particles and nitrogen oxides have been the subject of much research, there have been far fewer studies looking into the health impact of CO2.

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Following a major court ruling, Europe’s big industrial emitters may face fines or even be required to return EU carbon permits that have been mistakenly allocated since 2013, experts have warned.

EUAs ticked further above €26 early on Monday, with observers saying lighter auction volume could provide support this week.

Jodrell Bank has now joined locations such as the ancient city of Babylon on the prestigious list.

A federal program to help the Murray-Darling environment accidentally lowered water levels – but not as much as previous reports had feared. Q J Wang, Professor, University of Melbourne Avril Horne, Research fellow, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The New Zealand government launched a tender on Monday for information and advice on building an auction platform for its ETS, with the intention to start selling carbon allowances next year.

The Puro GHG removal trading platform led by Finnish utility Fortum is considering expanding beyond its Nordic base after holding three pilot auctions for the voluntary carbon market.

We could use a global carbon tax to give developing countries incentives to phase out coal

Although much derided by climate-change deniers, not least Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal hits the nail on the head with its urgent call for the US to lead by example on global warming. But the sad truth is that, for all the needless waste produced by Americans’ gluttonous culture, emerging Asia is by far the main driver of the world’s growing carbon dioxide emissions. No amount of handwringing will solve the problem. The way to do that is to establish the right incentives for countries such as China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

It is hard to see how to do this within the framework of existing multilateral aid institutions, which have limited expertise on climate issues and are pulled in different directions by their various constituencies. For example, to the dismay of many energy experts, the World Bank recently rather capriciously decided to stop funding virtually all new fossil-fuel plants, including natural gas. But replacing dirty coal plants with relatively clean natural gas is how the US has managed to reduce emissions growth dramatically over the past decade (despite Trump’s best efforts), and is a centrepiece of the famous “Princeton wedges” pragmatic options for minimising climate risk. One cannot let the perfect become the enemy of good in the transition to a carbon-neutral future.

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RN Drive's Country Drive ploughs through some of the most important news of the week from rural and regional Australia.

Cyclists: Scourge of the Roads? isn’t just as bad as the title indicates – it’s irresponsible

On Wednesday morning, I’ll be a little bit more wary when I cycle into work. I’m always hugely careful, anyway – the trip involves sharing space with tonne-plus lumps of speeding metal – but this time I’ll be particularly on my guard. Why? Because Channel 5 are putting me, and others, at risk.

At 9.15pm on Tuesday, a reasonably sizeable number of people, the majority of whom probably drive motor vehicles, will sit down to watch what is undoubtedly the worst, most scaremongering, inaccurate, downright irresponsible programme on cycling I’ve ever seen.

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