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On Tuesday 27 November, Guardian Australia will be running a live Q&A on our site, allowing school students and young Australians to ask experts about climate science, policy and what action young people can take.

Email your question to myclimatequestions@theguardian.com or ask on Twitter or Instagram using #MyClimateQuestions. Then visit the Guardian Australia site from 4pm-6.30pm to follow the blog

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Guardian Australia runs live online Q&A as hundreds of school students plan to strike over environmental inaction

Young Australians are frustrated about inaction on climate change – more so when the older generations don’t appear to be doing much about it.

Related: Passing the baton: will young people take up the fight to save the planet?

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The Labor Party's newly announced energy policy could finally set Australia's electricity sector on the path to a renewables-driven future. But policies are still needed to cut emissions elsewhere. Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A hiker camping in remote Stewart Island alerted authorities to the discovery

More than 140 pilot whales have died on a remote New Zealand beach, the latest in a recent string of whale strandings and deaths in the country.

On Saturday night the Department of Conservation [DoC] was informed of a mass whale stranding in Mason Bay on Stewart Island.

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The InSight mission is about to make the hair-raising descent to the surface of the Red Planet.

A new exhibition highlights the work of the 2018 Nature’s Best Photography award winners.

Learn more about how new projects, increased funding, innovative approaches and a focus on resilience and restoration are providing hope for the future of the Great Barrier Reef.

Australia’s leading independent solar power installer Solaray Energy has rounded off asuccessful 2018 with the announcement that they will be a foundation partner for the SMA PowerUP Trusted Solar Energy Dealer Network.

The post Solaray the first foundation partner for the SMA PowerUP Trusted Solar Energy Dealer Network appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Recruitment for four new members of the ACT Climate Change Council is now underway.

The post Be part of the climate change solution— ACT Climate Change Council seeks new members appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tossing the carcasses of dead salmon on to a river bank over two decades has boosted tree growth, a study finds.

• Conservationists record unusually high number of strandings
• Many of turtles are critically endangered Kemp’s ridley species

An unusual number of sea turtles have washed ashore in New England in the recent cold snap, many dead and appearing to have been “flash-frozen”.

Related: Manatees in peril as toxic red tide tests Florida's resources for rescued animals

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State poll delivers a crushing defeat to Liberal-National Coalition, and a clear endorsement of strong policies on climate change and renewable energy.

The post Victoria votes for solar, batteries and climate action, as Labor wins in a landslide appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nasa's latest probe is carrying super-sensitive UK seismometers to the Red Planet.

Nasa's Mars InSight lander is due to arrive on the Red Planet's surface on Monday night. It will study the planet's interior so we can learn more about how it formed.

Democrats ramp up pressure to act in wake of most sobering government analysis yet

• Report: climate change ‘will inflict substantial damages on US lives’
  

The Trump administration attempted to downplay the stark findings of its own climate change assessment, as Democrats sought to pressure the White House to avert looming economic and public health disaster.

The US National Climate change assessment, the work of 300 scientists and 13 federal agencies, was released on Friday afternoon. It found that wildfires, storms and heatwaves are already taking a major toll on Americans’ wellbeing, with climate change set to “disrupt many areas of life” in the future.

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Swedish minister Isabella Lövin found fame in a jibe aimed at the White House. Now she aims for change beyond Twitter

In February last year, a week after Donald Trump had signed an anti-abortion executive order surrounded by seven men, Isabella Lövin posted a photograph of herself on Twitter signing a climate change bill alongside seven other women.

Sweden’s then deputy prime minister remained enigmatic as the picture went viral and she was asked whether she had been “trolling” the US president. “It is up to the observer to interpret the photo,” she was quoted as saying. “We are a feminist government, which shows in this photo.”

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Demonstration organised by Extinction Rebellion aims to highlight government failure on the environment

Dozens of environmental campaigners blocked the roads around Parliament Square to highlight concerns about the environment on Saturday.

About 50 activists from Extinction Rebellion, a direct action group that has been coordinating a campaign of civil disobedience which has brought areas of the capital to a standstill in recent weeks, risked arrest by standing defiantly in roads in front of queueing traffic.

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The rate of deforestation has risen 13.7% in a year, amid concern about the new president's policies.

Schools introduce walk-to-school initiatives and stock up on asthma medicine

Schools across the UK are taking ever more drastic steps in an effort to mitigate the effects of air pollution on their pupils’ health.

Amid growing concern about the long-term implications of toxic air on young people’s development, the Guardian has found one London school is raising money for face masks for its pupils, while a growing number are installing air purifiers in classrooms and thousands more are trying to deter parents from using their cars on the school run.

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Nearly 8,000sq kms lost in the year to July amid alarm new president Jair Bolsonaro will make situation worse

Brazil has released its worst annual deforestation figures in a decade amid fears that the situation might worsen when the avowedly anti-environmentalist president-elect Jair Bolsonaro takes power.

Between August 2017 and July 2018, 7,900sq kms were deforested, according to preliminary figures from the environment ministry based on satellite monitoring – a 13.7% rise on the previous year and the biggest area of forest cleared since 2008. The area is equivalent to 987,000 football pitches.

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