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California and EU officials will increase collaboration to improve their existing carbon markets, while also examining potential avenues for aligning policies between the programmes, the parties announced at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco on Thursday.

Researchers in Quebec discovered the narwhal, over 100km outside its typical range, was playing with the whales

Whale researchers in Quebec’s St Lawrence River are celebrating a remarkable discovery: a juvenile narwhal far from its arctic home, that appears to have been adopted by a band of beluga whales.

The narwhal, more than 1,000km outside its typical range, was filmed by a drone swimming and playing with dozens of belugas that were treating it as one of their own.

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With Ottawa’s deadline for Canada’s provinces and territories to submit their carbon pricing plans having now passed, the federal government has a tough task ahead in reviewing and coordinating the programmes and addressing the obstinate gaps in what has emerged as a national patchwork of schemes.

California should examine ways to streamline its own suite of climate policies while taking on more ambitious emission reductions programmes, legislative and industry officials said Wednesday.

I have had a long and happy life, writes 90-year-old Anthea Hardy, but what am I leaving my great-grandchildren?

At last, protest marches against global warming, the most relevant issue of our time (Report, 8 September). I am over 90 years old and cannot join one but wish I could. All other questions fade into second place: Brexit, the gap between rich and poor, even the wars of the Middle East. We are not even reaching the 2% per annum target and even 0.2% would be too high. We are faced with escalating catastophies: rising sea levels, floods, forest fires. I have had a long and happy life but what am I leaving my great-grandchildren? I feel impotent. No one seems to question the effects of jet aircraft, of rockets to outer space or the ever-escalating increase in traffic. As I carefully recycle my rubbish and take pride in my excellent compost heap, I realise how paltry my efforts are.
Anthea Hardy
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Poland's energy minister on Thursday urged Brussels to step in to cool EU ETS prices, which this week spiked to a 10-year high near €26, Polish newswire PAP reported.

New study: Ingesting even a single piece of plastic exposes sea turtles to a 20% chance of death.

Council’s successful legal challenge to Cycle Superhighway 11 follows scrapping of pedestrianisation of Oxford Street

A legal challenge by Westminster city council to block a major cycle route in London has succeeded on a procedural point, in a move that could send Transport for London back to the drawing board and set safety improvements to one of London’s most dangerous junctions back by months.

The council’s successful judicial review of Cycle Superhighway 11 (CS11), which was due to run from Swiss Cottage to Portland Place, is the latest of its blocks to cycling, walking and road safety improvements. Following the scrapping of the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, the review has cemented Westminster’s reputation as the car-is-king borough of London.

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Ministers expand England’s culling area by 70% to try to curb TB in cattle as scientists dispute programme’s effectiveness

The controversial badger cull in England has been hugely expanded into 10 new areas, with up to 42,000 animals now due to be shot in an attempt to curb tuberculosis in cattle, up from 32,500 last year.

The farming minister George Eustice claimed the cull is starting to show results in Gloucestershire and Somerset, with drops in tuberculosis incidence, but did not highlight a rise seen in Dorset.

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Autopsies of 1,000 turtles washed up on Australian beaches paint a grim picture of the impact of plastic debris. Even a single piece can be deadly, and on average 14 pieces equals a 50% fatality rate. Britta Denise Hardesty, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO Chris Wilcox, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Kathy Ann Townsend, Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Qamar Schuyler, Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmospheres, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Retired sprinter Usain Bolt took part in a zero gravity race as part of a champagne promotion.

Hen harrier Heulwen had flown across Snowdonia when her satellite tag stopped transmitting.

EU carbon prices continued to plummet on Thursday, falling further from this week’s 10-year high of €25.79 to fall below €21 after a weak auction.

China this week finalised the structure of its new super ministry for the environment without a mention of the national emissions trading scheme and with the climate change division stripped of some of its responsibilities.

Most of the planet hasn't yet been mapped properly. Autonomous vehicles are set to change all that.

First path entirely made of recycled bottles, cups and packaging opens in Zwolle

The world’s first plastic bicycle path made of recycled bottles, cups and packaging has opened in the Netherlands, as part of a pilot that could see similar roads open up across the country.

The 30-metre path, made of recycled plastic equivalent to more than 218,000 plastic cups, is expected to be three times as durable as an asphalt alternative.

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South Korean CO2 prices are likely to be volatile over the next three years as an early large permit surplus is replaced by shortages later in the trading phase, analysts at trading firm Ecoeye said Thursday.

In 2016, Globe-NZ was formed with representatives from all the major parties - Nationals, Labour, Greens and New Zealand First - and, for the most part, they're in agreement about the way forward.

A Dutch non-profit has developed a giant U-shaped barrier that will scoop up plastic waste.

With the separation of the energy and environment portfolios, responsibility for reducing carbon emissions falls to Environment Minister Melissa Price.