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Footage shows Australian parrot breaching building’s defences with delight

Footage capturing a rebellious sulphur-crested cockatoo’s triumph over bird guard spikes has gone viral on Facebook.

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VW creates all-new electric Type 20 Kombi concept with cutting edge bells and whistles based on original Type 2 microbus.

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A massive plastic recycling plant being built in Victoria will be powered by locally generated wind energy, in a deal with Goldwind Australia's 321MW Moorabool wind farm.

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Swedish EV maker opens website to applications for its first run of “Founders Series” Uniti One electric cars, before they go on sale to the general public.

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"It's made a huge difference in my life," says one patient who can now live independently.

In an effort to make the Great Barrier Reef more resilient, hundreds of laboratory-bred baby corals have been successfully transplanted onto a reef off Townsville.

Less well-off areas have least to lose and most to gain from clean-air zones, study finds

Those who object to low emission or clean-air zones often say restricting old vehicles and diesel cars in city centres will hit the poorest most. A study challenges this.

Researchers from the University of the West of England combined UK census and air pollution data with information from annual vehicle safety (MOT) inspections.

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Vanuatu has banned them outright, while many Chinese families use just one every 24 hours. So why are Australians still sending millions of dirty nappies to landfill every single day? Kelly Dombroski, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A controversial study suggests extreme climate change can be averted by planting a billion hectares of trees.

Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the seaweed stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.

Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide

Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas.

As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New research estimates that a worldwide planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere by human activities, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”.

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A major German lignite power generator has closed and experts say others face a bleak future as higher carbon prices contribute to a poor financial outlook for the country’s big-emitting units, which have until now proved resistant to climate policy.

‘Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt’ now appears almost every year, forming largest record bloom

It weighs 20m tonnes, stretches from west Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, and washes up on beaches creating a malodorous stench. Now scientists say a vast swathe of brown seaweed could be becoming an annual occurrence.

Researchers say the explosion in sargassum seaweed first materialised in 2011. But new research shows it has appeared almost every year since then, forming the largest bloom of macroalgae ever recorded. What’s more, the seaweed band – dubbed the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt – seems to be getting bigger.

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EU carbon prices could rise to €33 by the middle of next decade and to €50 by 2030, consultants have forecast, bringing big ramifications for the bloc’s industry that they said could warrant policy changes including modifying EUA allocation rules or implementing border adjustments.

RZSS's Highland Wildlife Park, near Aviemore, has welcomed ten Arctic fox cubs.

Electronics firm Hang Seng has been awarded the contract to build the trading system for China’s national CO2 emissions trading scheme, putting the world’s biggest emitter on track to launching its carbon market in the second half of next year.

Carbon emissions from two of Europe’s biggest low-cost airlines rose month-on-month in June, putting both on track to record higher CO2 output and face costlier EU ETS bills this year.

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British conservation charity Plantlife’s campaign to encourage the growth and planting of flowers on UK roadside verges has seen some councils take the message seriously.

Posting on Twitter, Bex Langley wrote about the eight miles of flowers planted along a major road in Rotherham thanks to the local council.

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European carbon prices sank towards €26 on Thursday after the daily auction posted a weak result for a second straight day.

New Zealand’s main farming lobby has rejected the government’s target for methane emission cuts from livestock, saying it would disadvantage the nation’s food production industry.