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Barnaby Joyce's pro-mining stance is at odds with the more progressive quarters of the party, and puts the Nationals in a difficult position on global carbon tariffs. Geoff Cockfield, Professor of Government and Economics, and Deputy Dean, University of Southern Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Exclusive: Environment officials raised concerns that damage to habitat on Robbins Island could be difficult to offset

A proposed new windfarm on Robbins Island off north-west Tasmania could threaten a disease-free Tasmanian devil population, according to federal environment officials, who say the damage to habitat could be difficult to offset.

Correspondence obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws shows officials raised concerns that no comparable habitat existed anywhere else to compensate for the effects the project could have on the island’s unique devil colony, which is considered a stronghold for the survival of the species.

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The UK businessman realises a lifetime's ambition by riding a rocket plane high into the sky.

The BBC tracks the long, winding road to Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space.

The Delta variant is rattling markets. But the temptation to soothe them with quantitative easing must be resisted

Falling share prices. Investors piling into the safe haven of bonds. Rising infection rates of the Delta variant of coronavirus. The events of the past week have demonstrated one thing clearly: this isn’t over yet.

A couple of months ago the way out of the crisis looked clear. Immunisation programmes were allowing developed countries to remove restrictions on activity. A pick-up in growth was expected to continue without interruption. Rising government bond yields were seen as a sign of life returning to normal.

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The UK businessman is about to realise a lifetime's ambition by flying to the edge of space.

Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses, describes the experience of spaceflight.

Wildlife officials in Montana stake out chicken coop visited by same grizzly that fatally mauled camper

A grizzly bear that pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her has been fatally shot by wildlife officials, who used night-vision goggles to stake out a chicken coop it had also raided near the small Montana town of Ovando.

They shot the bear shortly after midnight on Friday when it approached a trap set near the coop about two miles from Ovando where 65-year-old Leah Davis Lokan of Chico, California, was killed on Tuesday, said Greg Lemon with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

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Researchers aim to "set the record straight" on how the virus transferred from bats into humans.

In remote towers, US Forest Service lookouts act as an early warning system for forest fires.

EU carbon prices have likely seen the bulk of the appreciation expected from upcoming supply-slashing market reforms, analysts forecast, with most predicting that EUAs would now sit tight and trade within sight of existing levels through 2023.

Speculative firms added to their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions over the week as prices hit a fresh record high, but the week-on-week changes revealed more modest growth compared to last month, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

The world was watching as a judge formalised into law a government’s duty of care to protect under-18s from the climate crisis

At about 9.30am on Thursday morning, 17-year-old Melbourne school student Anjali Sharma was walking her two-year-old kelpie-cross dog Maya down to the creek when the notifications started buzzing on her phone.

“I was getting updates from the lawyers in the court,” says Sharma, who as we speak is about to take another call from a journalist at the Times of India.

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Capturing stunning rock climbing images requires a specialised set of logistic, physical and artistic skills. In this episode of Art of Photography,  internationally renowned climbing photographer Simon Carter outlines some of the techniques he has used to capture some of the world’s most spectacular rock climbing photographs of the past 25 years

• From Devil’s Tower to the Grampians: Simon Carter’s rock climbing photography – in pictures
• More from Guardian Australia's Art of Photography series

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Germany has launched a tender to procure around 175,000 Kyoto Protocol offsets to neutralise the carbon emissions generated from the business trips of federal government officials in 2020.

EUAs rose back above €54 on Friday, clawing back some of the week's heavy losses after a strong auction and as energy and wider markets also rebounded following a shaky week.

Austria will introduce a carbon price for sectors not covered by the EU carbon market from 2022, the country's finance minister said on Thursday, with a proposal expected to be released this autumn.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including developments in Oregon and the PJM wholesale grid.

Company has been issued with a huge fine but those affected by its actions are finding it hard to celebrate

• Southern Water fined £90m over sewage
• Timeline: privatisation to pollution fines

The town of Whitstable sits on the north Kent coast, home to the oysters that have brought it worldwide fame from waters that are some of the most protected in Europe.

Celebrities, royals, tourists and locals flock to its annual festival to taste the native Whitstable oyster. But in 2013 the pollution in the sea where the famous oysters feed was so extreme that the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and other high-profile guests had to be served Irish shellfish hastily imported for the occasion.

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