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Researchers believe the four-metre-long mammal, found in Peru, was able to swim and walk on land.

Plans for the world's biggest solar tower and molten salt storage plant near Port Augusta fall through after US company failed to secure funding.

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California and Quebec entities continued to stretch the joint cap-and-trade programme’s vast permit surplus even further after picking up additional unsold allowances during the first quarter of 2019, according to WCI data.

New speculators are continuing to drive California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices ever higher on the secondary market, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) found their own support after levelling off the previous week, numerous traders said.

In a significant step in the push to develop a commercial hydrogen industry in Australia, green hydrogen has been delivered to Japan from Queensland.

Invasive pest ants cause billions of dollars worth of damage to crops, and threaten some of Australia's World Heritage rainforests. The federal budget has pledged nearly $30m on wiping them out – but how? Lori Lach, Associate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

For centuries, our lunar neighbour has been a source of fascination and inspiration for poets and artists.

Readers and heads of environmental organisations respond to a call to rewild on a massive scale

George Monbiot (The natural world can help save us from climate chaos, 3 April), Greta Thunberg and other signatories (Letters, 3 April) are right. Nature can provide effective options to help tackle climate change. Often there is no need for complicated, expensive and unproven technology. As we know from our work in such countries as Bhutan and Costa Rica, some governments are embracing nature-based solutions where natural forests are managed for their key role in storing carbon and regulating water for clean, green hydropower. Policies and investment need to work with local people and focus on linking nature to infrastructure to help avoid catastrophic climate change, protect biodiversity and cut emissions. The real challenge is to align the politics of change to the actions that are needed. While some countries are doing the right thing, in other places (such as Brazil) the politics is going backwards in deeply troubling ways.

The international community needs to act to support local livelihoods and enable communities to be good stewards of the natural world. Our lives depend on it.
Andrew Norton
Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

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Virginia GOP lawmakers are using the budget process to prevent the state from joining the northeast US RGGI market in 2020, after Governor Ralph Northam (D) vetoed bills this year attempting to block that linkage.

The MCPP invites photographers to tell a story of how they experience living in Australia. This year, themes of drought, immigration and identity feature heavily in the entries. The winner of the $50,000 prize will be announced on 7 May

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When we think of the effects of climate change it’s easy to focus on rising sea levels – but what about the changes happening much higher up? At Mount Hotham in Victoria a unique creature spends months under the snow: Australia’s only hibernating marsupial, the mountain pygmy possum. This tiny animal was once thought extinct. Now, zoos and ski-resorts are doing everything they can to keep it alive, but it faces a changing climate, which may create insurmountable challenges

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"Sir David" was found swimming with a plastic flying ring stuck around its neck.

EU carbon prices have surged by around 15% so far this week on the back of bullish buying stoked by Brexit optimism and supported by a rising energy complex, but some have questioned whether the sharp gains are warranted or sustainable, especially in light of worsening fundamentals.

The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is about to detonate an explosive charge on the asteroid it is exploring.

Switzerland’s carbon credit procurement agency has opened its first call for proposals for GHG-cutting activities, with the aim of tying up its first emission trade agreements under the Paris Agreement.

Panel was disbanded after a Trump official voiced concerns that it did not have enough members ‘from industry’

A US government climate change advisory group scrapped by Donald Trump has reassembled independently to call for better adaptation to the floods, wildfires and other threats that increasingly loom over American communities.

The Trump administration disbanded the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment in August 2017. The group, formed under Barack Obama’s presidency, provided guidance to the government based on the National Climate Assessment, a major compendium of climate science released every four years.

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More than 40% of electricity sold by China’s grid companies this year is likely to go through its recently-established power markets, according to the China Electricity Council (CEC), marking further progress in the ongoing power market reform seen as crucial for the success of the national carbon market.