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Commonwealth and NSW environmental water holders to release water into Dumaresq, Macintyre, Mehi and Barwon rivers to help native fish survive the drought.

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EUAs came within a few cents of breaking last week’s 11-year high near €28 on Wednesday as the lack of an auction and resilient gas prices encouraged both speculative and compliance buyers.

A team of conservators are working to breathe new life into a collection of Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban.

Tests on a rabbit bone, found in West Sussex, show for the first time the animal was alive in 1AD.

Twenty-three mostly Nordic firms led by Finnish utility Fortum are developing a platform to create and sell GHG removal units on the voluntary carbon market, in an effort to stimulate CO2 removal applications derived from soil and from concrete and wood used in buildings.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is likely to veto Republican budget amendments that would prevent the state from joining the RGGI and Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) programmes, a regulatory source said.

A record amount of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) futures have already traded on ICE just over halfway through April, marking the second consecutive month to set an all-time high.

The irony. Adani, fighting protests over its huge Queensland coal mine, opposes Gupta solar farm in South Australia because of concerns about grass wrens and thornbills.

The post Adani objects to Gupta solar farm in Whyalla, worried about birds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Navigating Australia's recycling crisis is even harder during festive seasons. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Jenni Downes, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Chefs won’t use red-listed seafood including farmed Atlantic salmon and east coast wild prawns

Sustainably sourced fish will be top of the menu in some of Australia’s best restaurants after 40 well-known chefs signed up to the Australian Marine Conservation Society’s Good Fish project.

The restaurants have all pledged not to source or serve seafood that is red-listed in the Sustainable Seafood Guide, published by the society.

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The study could aid medical research and fuel debate about the difference between life and death.

Readers share their views on Extinction Rebellion, activism and the importance of implementing systemic change to prevent an ecological catastrophe

Our unsustainable lifestyles and commitment to perpetual economic growth have become the major drivers of climate change and loss of biodiversity on Earth (Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse, 15 April). Our politicians fail to grasp the scale and urgency of the risk humanity faces. The UK signed up to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015, but has yet to develop a coherent and rigorous national plan for their domestic and international implementation.

Encouragingly, the SDGs form a new roadmap for our future that in principle aligns the economy with the Earth’s life support systems. Yet, a recent report by the Stockholm Resilience Centre shows that attempting to achieve the socioeconomic goals using conventional growth policies would make it virtually impossible to reduce the speed of global warming and environmental degradation.

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More than 300 were arrested in London as protesters continued to block roads in the capital and across Europe

• Climate activists chain themselves up outside Jeremy Corbyn’s house

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Police cells filling rapidly, with reports of detainees taken to Luton, Brighton and Essex

There have been more than 300 arrests linked to the Extinction Rebellion protests across London and reports suggest that London’s cells are rapidly filling.

The Metropolitan police would not release up-to-date figures on its cell capacity but data two years ago showed they had 799 cells available across the capital. With cuts to policing budgetsthis number is likely to have fallen, so reports that cell space is under pressure are credible.

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Three Extinction Rebellion campaigners glued themselves to a train at London's Canary Wharf.

Kakapos were one of New Zeland's most common birds, but they are now on the brink of extinction.

Protesters climb on carriages as others cause disruption at four sites in West End

Climate activists have glued themselves to the top of a train on a London railway line, in an escalation of the civil disobedience protests that have been blocking road junctions in the capital since Monday.

Two activists linked to the Extinction Rebellion group climbed on to carriages at Canary Wharf station on the Docklands Light Railway, bringing services to a halt in the financial hub.

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A wildlife campaigner says he believes the spikes are to stop birds from messing on cars.

A survey by Triple J shows young Australians are most concerned about climate change and the environment.