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Filmmaker Damon Gameau is challenging public perceptions about the environment with his new documentary, 2040.

People with lung conditions describe the impact air pollution has on their health.

The UK should deploy sectoral carbon pricing rising to as high as £160/tonne ($204, €183), including breaking up pricing for EU ETS-covered industries, to meet a net zero 2050 goal, prominent academics said in a report on Wednesday.

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Environmental organisations are calling on the technical advisor for the CORSIA global aviation offsetting mechanism to disclose more details in the coming weeks about its operating procedure and announce a call for programme applications.

There's no end in sight to the severe drought gripping parts of New South Wales with unseasonably high temperatures and a forecast dry winter.

Under the new law, people can choose to have their body turned into soil after their death.

Its number have crashed by an estimated 40 per cent in the last decade and conservationists are warning climate change could drive it to extinction along Australia's Great Dividing Range over the next 60 years.

While many farmers suffer through the trade war with China, US garlic growers benefit because they rely on domestic sales

Unlike millions of other US farmers, garlic growers are profiting from the trade war with China and have cheered Donald Trump’s latest economic attack accordingly.

Sales of California-grown garlic are now increasing after decades of losing ground to cheaper Chinese imports. Sales are poised to get even better as Chinese garlic faces even higher tariffs, with no end to the trade war in sight.

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Trade associations representing many EU ETS-covered sectors have shied away from backing a 2050 bloc-wide net zero goal and instead are engaging in subtle lobbying that is increasingly at odds with some of the companies they represent, a report found on Tuesday.

EU carbon prices lifted slightly for a second straight day on Tuesday as the energy complex rebounded, traders eyed a sharp drop in auction supply ahead, and British Prime Minister Theresa May offered MPs a chance to vote on a second Brexit referendum.

The Western Australian coral reefs may not be as well known as the Great Barrier Reef, but they're just as large and diverse. And they too have been devastated by cyclones and coral bleaching. James Paton Gilmour, Research Scientist: Coral Ecology, Australian Institute of Marine Science Rebecca Green, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Far more megafauna species use coastal wetlands than we thought. And it affects the way we need to address the extinction crisis. Michael Sievers, Research Fellow, Global Wetlands Project, Australia Rivers Institute, Griffith University Rod Connolly, Professor in Marine Science, Griffith University Tom Rayner, Science Communicator, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Concerns about the validity of California's forestry offset protocol are adding tension between the legislature and regulator ARB, but those worries are not putting the WCI-eligible credits at risk, three sources told Carbon Pulse.

Researchers say it shows driverless cars working together could improve traffic flow by at least 35%.

California regulator ARB will not hold the first meeting of its Compliance Offsets Protocol Task Force (OPTF) until several months after it had originally planned, possibly delaying the development of new protocols aimed at providing direct environmental benefits in the state (DEBs) to just before the start of the post-2020 cap-and-trade programme.

More than half of British homeowners feed birds, maintaining 133 species

The increasingly appetising buffet provided for garden birds, from sunflower hearts to suet cakes, is supporting a rising number and greater diversity of species in Britain’s urban areas, according to research.

In the 1970s, half of all birds using garden feeders belonged to just two species, the sparrow and starling, but by the 2010s the number of species making up the same proportion had tripled, with goldfinches, woodpigeons and long-tailed tits soaring in number because of the food on offer.

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DJ and producer wants to banish ‘disconnect’ between climate issues and daily life

One of dance music’s rising stars is swapping the decks for a microphone to deliver a series of talks about the importance of environmental sciences to help tackle the climate crisis.

Jayda G – real name Jayda Guy – is a Canadian DJ and music producer whose livestreamed mixes on YouTube clock up thousands of views, and now she is fusing two worlds by using her platform to expose fans to issues affecting the natural world.

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Lower-income and minority communities are exposed to majority of the pollution coming from waste-burning plants, report finds

A total of 1.6 million Americans live next to the most polluting incinerators in the country, with lower-income and minority communities exposed to the vast majority of pollution coming from these waste-burning plants.

The burning of household and commercial waste can give off a stew of pollutants, including mercury, lead and small particles of soot. This pollution isn’t evenly distributed, however. Of the 73 incinerators across the US, 79% are located within three miles of low-income and minority neighbourhoods, according to research by the Tishman Environment and Design Center at New York City’s New School.

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China’s Fujian province has distributed a draft 2018 and 2019 allocation plan for its emissions trading scheme for public comment, proposing modest carbon reductions in major industries.