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The Massachusetts House and Senate approved a bill in the waning hours of the 2018 legislative session on Tuesday that increases the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), but it omitted carbon pricing and several clean energy provisions that both the Senate and environmental advocates had pushed for.

US states and wholesale energy market operators should work towards implementing or expanding regional market solutions as the best way to achieve emissions reductions in the power sector, according to a discussion paper released Monday.

Climate mitigation efforts are unlikely to be enough to save critical ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef. We may need to consider more radical environmental engineering. Kerryn Brent, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania Brendan Gogarty, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania Jan McDonald, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania Jeff McGee, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law Faculty of Law and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices rocketed back towards recent highs on Tuesday after a strong auction result erased early weakness.

John Armitt and Odd A Jakobsen respond to Adam Vaughan’s piece about electric cars

Adam Vaughn’s experience of driving an electric vehicle (One Man and his Tesla, 27 July) demonstrates the real need we have for a truly national, visible network in this country if drivers are to confidently switch from petrol or diesel, which is a key recommendation of the UK’s first-ever National Infrastructure Assessment.

We also make a key recommendation that government should place a requirement on local councils to work with charge point providers to allocate 5% of their parking spaces to electric vehicles by 2020, and 20% by 2025, which may be converted to electric vehicle charge points.

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The most populous region of the biggest polluter on Earth – China’s northern plain – will become uninhabitable in places if climate change is not curbed

The deadliest place on the planet for extreme future heatwaves will be the north China plain, one of the most densely populated regions in the world and the most important food-producing area in the huge nation.

New scientific research shows that humid heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike the area repeatedly towards the end of the century thanks to climate change, unless there are heavy cuts in carbon emissions.

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Miss Helen, a female grey horn shark, had been driven away from San Antonio aquarium in a pickup truck

A shark abducted from a petting tank at a Texas aquarium and smuggled out in a pram has been found and returned.

The female grey horn shark, known as Miss Helen, was grabbed from the open pool in San Antonio aquarium by two men and a woman, then wrapped in a wet blanket.

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Australia’s Climate Change Authority (CCA) on Tuesday launched a review of the Safeguard Mechanism, questioning whether the policy contributes to reducing GHG emissions and putting the spotlight on issues such as double counting.

Emitters in Shanghai’s carbon market on Tuesday bought fewer than a sixth of the 2 million allowances on sale in 2018’s only auction, with the permits clearing at the government-set price floor.

Korean 2017 allowances fell slightly in Tuesday trade but held above $20 as a few companies that are yet to surrender permits for last year dipped into the market to pick up a modest 57,000 KAUs.

Video footage shows a 40cm horn shark being taken from San Antonio aquarium in Texas, before being wrapped in a towel and placed in a pram. Police returned the shark to the aquarium after two of the three suspects confessed. A horn shark is worth about $2,000 (£1,520)

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Despite a wet summer, 2017 was one of the warmest years according to Met Office records dating back to 1910.

Scientists have identified a creature that they believe to be a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin

Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don’t call it a “wholphin,” they say.

The melon-headed whale is one of the various species that’s called a whale but is technically a dolphin.

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EDF is looking for a program coordinator to provide support for a broad range of initiatives with an immediate focus on tracking projects related to air quality and climate change in India and support for setting up a formal EDF presence in India.

US President Donald Trump has offered to have a "no preconditions" meeting with Iran.

A new plant opening in Sydney converts waste into energy which could take the equivalent emissions of 20,000 cars out of the atmosphere.

The announcement comes ahead of the Federal Government's upcoming legislation which is set to roll back protections of Australia's national marine parks.

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A new resource recovery facility at Wetherill Park in western Sydney is transforming commercial and industrial waste into an alternative renewable fuel source.

Enel Green Power to invest €1 million in R&D for Carnegie's CETO wave power technology, and collaborate in its deployment "across a number of milestones."