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The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

Many fruits, nuts and other crops rely on bees to pollinate their flowers at just the right time of year. Many farmers rent bees to get the job done at pollination time. Manu Saunders, Research fellow, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Gupta says GFG Alliance could build 10GW of large scale in Australia, as well as make EVs, and use car batteries for household storage.

"Unsustainable" levels of extraction plus climate change could see water supply deficits across England by 2050.

Making sense of terms like vog, laze and pahoehoe with the help of volcanologist Evgenia Ilyinskaya.

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The Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released an expanded assessment on Tuesday to support its recent forecast of how a federal carbon levy will impact the country’s GDP, though the analysis appeared somewhat extreme and binary in nature and did not account for a number of realities across Canada's existing pricing patchwork.

The largest organised labour group in Washington came up short of formally backing the state’s carbon tax ballot initiative, signalling a potential gap in support ahead of the July filing deadline.

A pair of Canada lynx have been caught on camera "screaming" at each other.

The joint US-German Grace satellites go into orbit to monitor Earth's most important resource.

The joint US-German Grace satellites go into orbit to monitor Earth's most important resource.

European carbon extended the previous session’s seven-year high on Tuesday, crossing the €16 mark for the first time since June 2011 following a strong auction, though some traders are growing increasingly concerned that the large gains will lead to a sudden price collapse.

Echidnas can survive quite low levels of oxygen. Christine Cooper, Senior Lecturer, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Bunya pine is a unique and majestic Australian tree that commands respect. Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Are you stressed? Of course you are. Read about awesome plants instead. Madeleine De Gabriele, Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Proposal would repeal Obama-era rules that ban shooting of bear cubs and other controversial hunting practices in Alaska

The Trump administration is attempting to repeal a rule that bans the shooting of bear cubs, using dogs and bait to hunt bears, and killing caribou from motorboats in Alaska’s federal wildlife refuges.

The proposal would scrap a 2015 regulation by the National Park Service that restricts controversial hunting and trapping practices on around 20 million acres of federal land in Alaska.

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On international day for biological diversity, the IUCN celebrates successful conservation action with images and stories of 12 species and the efforts underway to improve their status

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The wildlife presenter has revealed he is storing roadkill in his freezer to feed foxes, as recent reports suggest their numbers are in sharp decline

The next time you’re at Chris Packham’s house, rifling through his kitchen looking for a snack, for God’s sake, don’t look in the freezer. That’s where Packham keeps his “enormous quantity” of roadkill.

What exactly is Packham doing with an enormous quantity of roadkill in his freezer? It’s a fair question. Should a nationally renowned wildlife presenter be running over wildlife in the first place?

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AEMO reports detail how Tesla big battery helped keep the lights on last summer, smashed prices in specialised markets, and made money for itself from price arbitrage.

Oil firm grilled over carbon emissions, but defeats motion calling for tougher targets

Shell investors have rebelled over the company’s executive pay, as the Anglo-Dutch oil company came under pressure to take stronger action on climate change.

While chief executive Ben van Beurden’s €8.9m (£7.79m) pay package for 2017 was approved, more than a quarter of shareholders voted against the firm’s remuneration report at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday.

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