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Korean 2017 allowances fell slightly in Tuesday trade but held above $20 as a few companies that are yet to surrender permits for last year dipped into the market to pick up a modest 57,000 KAUs.

Video footage shows a 40cm horn shark being taken from San Antonio aquarium in Texas, before being wrapped in a towel and placed in a pram. Police returned the shark to the aquarium after two of the three suspects confessed. A horn shark is worth about $2,000 (£1,520)

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Despite a wet summer, 2017 was one of the warmest years according to Met Office records dating back to 1910.

Scientists have identified a creature that they believe to be a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin

Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don’t call it a “wholphin,” they say.

The melon-headed whale is one of the various species that’s called a whale but is technically a dolphin.

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EDF is looking for a program coordinator to provide support for a broad range of initiatives with an immediate focus on tracking projects related to air quality and climate change in India and support for setting up a formal EDF presence in India.

US President Donald Trump has offered to have a "no preconditions" meeting with Iran.

A new plant opening in Sydney converts waste into energy which could take the equivalent emissions of 20,000 cars out of the atmosphere.

The announcement comes ahead of the Federal Government's upcoming legislation which is set to roll back protections of Australia's national marine parks.

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A new resource recovery facility at Wetherill Park in western Sydney is transforming commercial and industrial waste into an alternative renewable fuel source.

Enel Green Power to invest €1 million in R&D for Carnegie's CETO wave power technology, and collaborate in its deployment "across a number of milestones."

Safest site should be chosen regardless of location, committee says – but opponents call idea ‘outrageous’

Highly radioactive nuclear waste could be permanently buried under national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs), under government plans backed by a committee of MPs.

Deep geological burial is seen as the only permanent solution for nuclear waste that will remain radioactive for many thousands of years and is currently stored at surface sites across the UK. Ministers’ attempts to choose a site in Cumbria for the £12bn facility were foiled in 2013 when the county council rejected the proposal.

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Average temperature in past decade is 0.8C hotter and ‘notably wetter’ than the 30 years leading up to 1990

Last year was the fifth warmest on record for the UK, showing a clear warming trend above the long-term average, despite a wet summer last year and cold winter.

The average temperature over the past decade, since 2008, was 0.8C above the 30 year average to 1990. Summers over that period have also been “notably wetter”, the Met Office said, in its fourth annual State of the UK Climate report on Tuesday.

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Iconic US motorcycle maker reaches out to new generation of riders with electric LiveWire motorcycle, with a view to release it as early as next year.

Folly Farm, Somerset: Even sun-loving insects have been suffering as their food plants wither and nectar sources dry up

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A group of 23 energy researchers from 11 institutions have called for the full release of National Energy Guarantee modelling.

One third of all cetacean species are found in the waters off Timor Leste, but measures are needed to protect them

Olive Andrews believes Timor Leste could be one of the best destinations in the world for whale watching. Andrews - a research scientist with a particular interest in cetaceans - drew this conclusion when she joined a survey team assessing the coastal waters north of Timor Leste in October 2016. “I’ve never seen such a biomass of cetaceans in such a small geography,” she says. “We encountered 2287 cetaceans from 11 species, including superpods of up to 600 individuals.”

There are 90 distinct species of cetacean - and at least 30 of them occur in Timor Leste. These include both local populations like melon headed whales and spinner dolphins, and migratory species like humpbacks and pygmy blue whales. Managed properly, whale tourism could generate significant income for Timor Leste, one of the world’s youngest - and poorest - nations.

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AEMO's Audrey Zibelman concedes there is a “hiccup” in connection of new solar and wind projects to the grid, caused by overwhelming volume, and as the speed of new projects overtakes the ability of the grid to adapt.

CEC details jaw-dropping scale of Australian renewables boom, but survey says investor confidence shaky, summed up in two words: "policy uncertainty."

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