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Switzerland’s energy-related CO2 emissions continued to decline in 2017, the government reported Tuesday, attributing much of the fall to the increased use of biofuels.

South Korea on Wednesday released the allocation plan for the second phase of its emissions trading scheme, adding more than 30 million permits annually for industrials to support their short-term growth prospects.

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The South Pole Young Changemaker Program offers the opportunity for young graduates to join us for a 1-year comprehensive program that provides in-depth professional learning and development across several areas: business development, project management and climate action.

Verra seeks an Intern to support research and administration for the Landscape Standard. The ideal candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills, qualitative research experience and interest in sustainability.

The UK's fortnightly EU carbon auction was cancelled on Wednesday due to insufficient interest, host ICE said, marking the second failed sale in the past two months.

New Zealand carbon permits jumped to fresh record highs on Wednesday as a lack of available supply continued to pull prices north.

Environmentalists have written to ministers, asking them to reform the planning system so that all future coal mines are automatically refused

Environmentalists have urged the government to kill off new coal mines in the UK, by reforming the planning system to block their development.

Friends of the Earth, along with the RSPB, WWF and a group of academics, said ministers should build on their international climate change leadership against coal by taking stronger action at home.

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Weeks of dry weather cause water levels at Spelga Dam to drop, exposing a hidden history.

Whale bones unearthed at Roman ruins suggest whales were present around the shores of the Roman Empire.

A University of Queensland process for extracting and transforming metals needed for EV batteries could cut their carbon footprint – and manufacturing costs.

DP Energy wins approval for Stage 2 of 1.1GW hybrid renewables park, which will offer most services of traditional fossil fuel power stations.

A new report reveals Australia is lagging behind most wealthy nations in working towards the globally agreed goals. It's performing particularly badly on climate and environmental indicators. John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University Tahl Kestin, Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tesla signs MOU to build EV plant in Shanghai, which will be producing 500,000 cars a year within five years' time.

Portland, Dorset: The gentle greens and yellows of our last visit are now bleached and tarnished, tall grasses faded to blond, wood spurge dried to rust

A stone archway, framing sea and sky. The threshold to another world, a world unsuspected by visitors hurrying over the windswept plateau to the Bill, Portland’s beak-like southern tip.

Under the eye of Rufus Castle, we wander down between spindly ivy-sashed trees and warm, lichened walls bright with valerian, to the cove where shuttered beach huts curve round a bank of big, pale stones. The sense of otherness increases. Earlier this year, we were met by the sight of three pebble minarets silhouetted against the waves. If we hadn’t taken photos, we’d have thought we had dreamed them.

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The biggest threat to Australia's legacy coal fired generators is not the explosion of wind and solar farms, or even the settings of the country's emissions policy: Right now, it's the continued boom in rooftop solar.

The Andrews Labor Government will provide $500,000 to help transition one of Victoria’s strongest renewableenergy regions towards a thriving low-carbon economy.

ACCC calls for federal solar subsidy to be scrapped by 2021, in report that documents how consumers have been screwed by networks, generators and retailers. Its response: Kill rooftop solar, and get government to underwrite new projects that could include gas and coal.

Australia's oceans are warming faster than the global average, and fish are moving south as a result. Alistair Hobday, Senior Principal Research Scientist - Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO Beth Fulton, CSIRO Research Group Leader Ecosystem Modelling and Risk Assessment, CSIRO Gretta Pecl, Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Editor in Chief (Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries), University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Travelling in time might sound like fantasy, but some physicists think it might really be possible.