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Researchers found 16% of coral species have not been seen for many years. This finding is alarming, because local extinctions suggest global extinctions may be looming. Zoe Richards, Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The historic journey will see her become the oldest person to ever fly to space.

‘Occasionally a big male would wake the echoes of the mountains with his tremendous voice’

It is difficult to take yourself seriously in the presence of a baboon, but I have tried. The university I attended is at the foot of Cape Town’s Table Mountain and every now and then a chacma baboon or several would clamber down to our world.

There they were: on the avenue that bisected the campus, where a highly evolved professor parked his vintage sports car. Where film students arranged themselves on windowsills. There were people trying to take themselves seriously all over the place. It was like every university. Only here, we had baboons.

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Carbon Pulse has hired two new reporters to expand its coverage of the world’s two largest carbon markets.

Governments urged to ramp up efforts to tackle climate emergency as temperature records smashed

Climate scientists have said nowhere is safe from the kind of extreme heat events that have hit the western US and Canada in recent days and urged governments to dramatically ramp up their efforts to tackle the escalating climate emergency.

The devastating “heat dome” has caused temperatures to rise to almost 50C in Canada and has been linked to hundreds of deaths, melted power lines, buckled roads and wildfires.

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The monarch was visiting the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute during her visit to Scotland.

A "last ice area" is crucial for the survival of polar bears but is suffering from climate change.

France must introduce new measures to combat climate change in the next nine months as the country is set to miss its emissions reduction targets, its top administrative court said on Thursday.

Australia’s Code of Conduct for the carbon industry went live Thursday, as the Clean Energy Regulator has revoked yet another offset project, a fate shared by nearly a fifth of all the nation’s carbon credit schemes.

Neighborhood streets have become ghost towns. Stepping outside feels like stepping into a sauna. A 10-minute stroll feels like a 20-minute run

The city with the best summers in the nation just hit 108F (42.2C) degrees.

As a lifelong Seattle-area resident and so-called geriatric millennial, I can attest to the fact that, until recently, Seattle summers truly were second to none in the comfortability department. Highs in the 70s? Check. Bluebird skies after morning clouds? Check. Pleasant sea breezes in the evening to take the edge off the day’s warmth? Check.

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Maps, graphics and charts explaining the Canada and north-west US heatwave, with temperatures at nearly 50C.

EUAs reached a new record high early on Thursday as gas prices continued to rise and the market digested a leaked European Commission document that laid out proposed reforms to the EU ETS.

Nation scores just 10 out of 100 on tackling fossil fuel emissions in new report on sustainable development goals

Australia has been ranked last for climate action out of nearly 200 countries in a report assessing progress towards global sustainable development goals.

The Sustainable Development Report 2021, first reported by Renew Economy, scored Australia last out of 193 United Nations member countries for action taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Paul Crawford’s crops are dying. Salmon sacred to Frankie Myers’ Native American tribe are slipping away. Along the California-Oregon border, the climate crisis is worsening a water crisis decades in the making – leaving farmers and indigenous communities scrambling to keep their traditions alive.

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Conservationists say Pembroke Resources mine will increase carbon emissions and wouldn’t need public money if financially viable

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The Morrison government has announced a $175m loan to help build a large new metallurgical coalmine in central Queensland, in a move conservationists have labelled “deeply irresponsible”.

Climate campaigners have said the loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Naif) to develop the $900m Olive Downs mine in the Bowen Basin was “a bad idea”. They argued the Pembroke Resources project would increase global carbon emissions by contributing to “dirty” steelmaking and would not need public backing if it was financially viable.

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Gunnedah solar farm completes registration and starts injecting power into the grid.

The post Gunnedah solar farm registered in NSW, begins sending power to the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia again found to be lagging on climate action, ranking last of all 193 countries assessed in authoritative UN-backed report.

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Powerlink turns to battery storage to help solve grid stability issues, part of a new "tailored" solutions package to support more wind and solar.

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After blocking a loan to a Queensland wind project, resources minister Keith Pitt approves a $175m government loan to a coal mine.

The post Pitt approves huge loan for Queensland coal project, after rejecting wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carbon Tracker report says five Asian countries will account for most of new coal investment, but virtually none of these investments will be profitable.

The post Five Asian countries risk Paris target with 80% of globe’s planned new coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.