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Just when you thought Australia’s banks had reached the nadir, new data shows ‘Big Four’ lending to fossil fuel projects spiked by 50% last year.

The Australian Heritage Council’s report to the Minister for the Environment and Energy on the protection of Australia’s commemoratives places and monuments has been released.

The Australian Heritage Council’s report to the Minister for the Environment and Energy on the protection of Australia’s commemoratives places and monuments has been released.

Uzbekistan has an ambitious plan to stop widespread health problems that developed when the Aral Sea disappeared.

OzHarvest founder, Ronni Khan's fight to reduce food waste is the subject of a new documentary.

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Californian carbon prices continued their slow recovery as nerves subsided after the May 15 sold-out auction, while RGGI trade stalled in a week interrupted by the Memorial Day public holiday.

Scientists say they have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto.

A new company is looking to expand US carbon offset opportunities in agriculture by taking the "opposite approach" to the current system of protocol development.

The US slapped import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the previously-exempted EU, Canada, and Mexico on Thursday, prompting European producers to urge retaliation against potential cuts to their EU ETS-covered output.

Here are ten common misconceptions about what dogs need and how they communicate with us. Plus, a gallery of reader and staff dog pictures! Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland

Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet.

The new research shows that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined – and still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife.

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New total represents an increase of 25% since 2010 in its central African heartland

It is one of the most recognisable animals in the world and one of the most endangered, but a new census reveals the surviving mountain gorilla population has now risen above 1,000.

This represents a rise of 25% since 2010 in its heartland of the Virunga Massif in central Africa. It also marks success for intensive conservation work in a region riven by armed conflict, and where six park guards were murdered in April.

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The number of Colombian CERs being cancelled against the country’s carbon tax by big emitters is approaching 1.5 million after another batch was annulled last week.

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Security forces launch raids linked to deforestation in the Carpathian mountains, home to some of Europe’s last virgin forest

Romania’s security forces have mounted a series of raids to break up an alleged €25m illegal logging ring, in what is believed to be the largest operation of its kind yet seen in Europe.

Officers from Romania’s Directorate for Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) swooped on 23 addresses – including factories owned by the Austrian timber group Schweighofer Holzindustrie, according to local press reports.

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We’d like to hear about – and see pictures of – the small things you are doing to encourage nature where you live

Naturalist Patrick Barkham wrote in the Guardian this week about the principles of rewilding – stepping back and allowing natural processes to occur, and encouraging wild plants and insects.

Related: How to rewild your garden: ditch chemicals and decorate the concrete

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The humble seaweed is enlisted in the fight against climate change.

EU carbon prices slid by almost 5% in early trade on Thursday to continue the previous session’s downward slide, as traders unwound a chunk of May's stellar gains ahead of month-end.