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A leatherback sea turtle has been returned to the ocean after becoming stranded on a mudflat in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, US. It took dozens of volunteers from three conservation organisations to free the 270kg reptile. After a health assessment confirmed the disorientated turtle was in good health, it was released to cheers from the crowd of volunteers. The turtle was fitted with a tracking device that will monitor its migration patterns over the next decade

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Australian exports of renewable hydrogen, ammonia and green materials could surpass the current value of coal and gas exports, and create more jobs.

The post Renewable exports worth more than coal and gas, will create more jobs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tense scenes as lorry drivers use vehicles to try to break through demonstrators’ blockades

Drivers dragged climate protesters out of the road and threatened to run them over on the eastern outskirts of London as Insulate Britain staged roadblock protests for the 13th time.

There were tense scenes as about 40 members of the climate activist group blocked the M25 at junction 31 and the London Road A1090 near the Dartford Crossing, with stranded drivers shouting abuse and accelerating towards protesters.

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South Korea’s monthly carbon auction Wednesday followed the secondary market north and cleared 1% below spot prices, while selling over 90% of the allowances on offer.

Young people look at the monarchy and its sterile acres and see a huge opportunity to help cool the heating planet

Last weekend I saw a manifestation of hate and a vision of hope. It’s a couple of days I’ll never forget.

In the dark hours of Friday morning, masked thugs crept up to the gates in front of my home and firebombed a car in the driveway, presumably in an attempt to deliver a threatening message. After years of dead birds, badgers and foxes left hanging or thrown outside my house by people in favour of animal hunting, this latest action was a serious escalation. Whatever they wanted, whether they were members of a hunt or just internet trolls, it was clear that intimidation was their intention. As I watched the flames raging in the darkness, I admit I wondered where this would end.

Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and author, and a presenter on BBC Two’s Springwatch

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New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, has released a new hydrogen plan to attract tens of billions of dollars of investment and boost the state’s role in Australia’s emerging renewable hydrogen sector, the government announced on Wednesday.

Australian carbon credits traded at a record A$31 ($22.74) on Wednesday, while some landfill gas developers are close to fulfilling large ERF contracts, potentially freeing up more supply for the secondary market.

Clean energy progress is not going fast enough to put global emissions into a sustained decline towards net zero by mid-century, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday.

Most people in Australia have been bitten at some point by something poisonous and they don’t know what

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Exclusive: pork industry’s role in pollution of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons may be greater than publicly acknowledged, investigation reveals

Pollution from hundreds of intensive pig farms may have played a bigger role than publicly acknowledged in the collapse of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons, according to a new investigation.

Residents in Spain’s south-eastern region of Murcia sounded the alarm in August after scores of dead fish began washing up on the shores of the Mar Menor lagoon. Within days, the toll had climbed to more than five tonnes of rotting carcasses littering beaches that were once a top tourist draw.

Images of the lagoon’s cloudy waters and complaints over its foul stench dominated media coverage across Spain for days, as scientists blamed decades of nitrate-laden runoffs for triggering vast blooms of algae that had depleted the water of oxygen – essentially leaving the fish suffocating underwater.

A four-month investigation by Lighthouse Reports and reporters from elDiario.es and La Marea examined how intensive pork farming may have contributed to one of Spain’s worst environmental disasters of recent years.

This summer, as lifeless fish continued to wash up on the shores of Mar Menor, the regional government banned the use of fertilisers within 1.5km (0.9 miles) of the lagoon, hinting that blame for the crisis lay solely with the wide expanse of agricultural fields that border the lagoon. The central government was more direct, accusing local officials of lax oversight when it came to irrigation in the fields.

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1414 gets backing from Woodside for its thermal energy storage technology it says is "simpler" than hydrogen.

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IEA says current climate pledges not nearly enough to get to zero net emissions, more must be done to shake the "stubborn incumbency" of fossil fuels.

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Populations of noisy miners have boomed since colonisation, and today they’re a huge threat to other native birds. 45 attempts to cull them in 30 years have left us with more questions than answers. Courtney Melton, PhD Candidate in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland April Reside, Researcher, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Jeremy Simmonds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Martine Maron, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland Michael Clarke, Emeritus professor, La Trobe University Paul McDonald, Associate professor, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The actor who played Captain Kirk in the classic TV show is due to launch above Earth for real within hours.

Community members, First Nations peoples, farmers, fishers, business owners and other interested people are invited to attend an online Q and A session about water for the environment on Tuesday October 19, 2021.

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Bombora wave technology to be used in project in Mauritius that has received a subsidy from the Japanese government.

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SafeWork to carry out safety checks at NSW solar farms and construction sites following reports of poor practices.

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Tassie to become first state to formally legislate a net zero target for 2030, and will ramp-up support for low emission industry, including green hydrogen.

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Report warns England faces more floods and droughts, rising sea levels and greater demand on water supplies

England faces more floods and droughts, rising sea levels and greater demand on water supplies due to climate change, the Environment Agency has warned.

Ahead of the UN Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow, the government agency is warning that adaptation – becoming resilient to the already inevitable effects of climate change – is just as important as actions to cut greenhouse gases.

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