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The Minister has approved the inclusion of a new ecological community on the list of threatened ecological communities under the EPBC Act. The Assemblages of species associated with open-coast salt-wedge estuaries of western and central Victoria...

Some 45,000 skeletons are being removed to make way for a new station terminus.

Karadoc solar farm, supplying clean electricity to brewing group CUB, begins production near Mildura.

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Climate advisors say coastal communities must "get real" about the possibility of 1m sea level rise.

The founders of the Numbat Task Force have just won one of the country's most prestigious conservation prizes.

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is unlikely to push its proposed cap-and-trade rulemaking package further into 2019, because it would delay the future implementation of the programme to mid-2019, numerous regulatory experts said.

When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, it made billions of tonnes of rock move like a fluid.

Nissan Leaf approved as a power plant for the German energy market, using vehicle-to-grid technology.

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"Clean Air Plan" to assist London Uber to buy EVs, to make the on-demand transport service all-electric by 2025.

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Camel beauty pageants are multi-million-dollar events on the Arabian Peninsula. Jaime Gongora, Associate Professor, Animal and Wildlife Genetics and Genomics, University of Sydney Mahmood Alamri, PhD student, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU Parliament urged the bloc Thursday to raise its 2030 emission reduction goal to 55% below 1990 levels, up from 40%, increasing pressure on the bloc’s leaders that have ruled out doing so this year.

The California and RGGI carbon markets saw relatively little activity and few price changes this week as participants attended an industry conference, but while allowances stagnated, the Golden California Carbon Offsets (GCCO) discount widened as demand waned ahead of next week's WCI true-up deadline.

EU carbon prices sank as much as 5% Thursday to again test levels in the €18s and a key technical support, with prices oscillating amid a wider slump in energy prices.

European energy exchange EEX has no plans to change the way it reports open interest on its emissions derivatives markets, its chief strategy officer told Carbon Pulse, after traders complained the data was misleading.

First in network of chargers three times faster than current models installed near Paris

Shell has stepped up its move into electric vehicle infrastructure with the installation of its first ultrafast charging points in western Europe – but they are so powerful that no car currently on sale today would be able to fully exploit them.

The chargers at a motorway service station outside Paris are one of 80 European locations the Anglo-Dutch firm is planning for swift charging by 2020, including as many as eight in the UK.

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South Africa has further delayed the roll-out of its long-awaited carbon tax as it looks to introduce a higher levy to penalise companies that exceed their emissions quotas.

Union’s president says bill’s current wording could lead to a lowering of standards

The National Farmers’ Union has told Theresa May she must treat the food industry as being of equal importance as the car sector, with special protections enshrined in new laws covering standards and production.

The NFU president, Minette Batters, said she had raised concerns in a phone call to the prime minister that food production was not at the heart of a new agriculture bill, the first major overhaul of legislation in the sector since the second world war.

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New Caledonian crows have been filmed extracting a piece of food from a puzzle box by piecing together two separate rods. The birds were able to display highly flexible abilities to solve a complex problem without prior training. Until now, the ability to assemble different components had only been seen in great apes and humans

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We talk to Solar Victoria and its pre-emptive strike against solar cowboys who moved in to try and fleece consumers in Victoria’s massive solar program.

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