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Hundreds gather outside high court in London as jailed trio challenge sentences

Several hundred supporters of the three protesters jailed for blocking access to the Preston New Road fracking site have gathered outside the high court in London before their appeal against their sentences.

Simon Blevins, 26, and Richard Roberts, 36, were jailed for 16 months, and Rich Loizou, 31, was jailed for 15 months, after a four-week trial last month led to their convictions for causing a public nuisance.

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Oil-rich kingdom says money is needed to protect against water scarcity but request sparks strong criticism and fears over the fitness of the public fund

Bahrain – one of the world’s most oil-rich nations – has applied to the international Green Climate Fund for $9.8m for its National Oil and Gas Authority, raising questions over whether taxpayer-funded assistance for poor countries is reaching its intended targets.

The kingdom has requested the funding to clean up wastewater from the oil and gas industry, which it says is necessary to protect against water scarcity in future – a problem that is likely to grow worse around the world as a consequence of climate change.

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European carbon prices shed their gains on Wednesday morning after the fortnightly UK auction cleared at a record discount to the secondary market.

Wannon water from Hamilton WTP in Victoria has won the title of Australia's best tasting tap water.

Lee Berger wins Frank Fenner prize for life scientist of the year while ANU emeritus professor Kurt Lambeck wins prime minister’s prize for science

The sudden crash of several frog species in Australia and central America between the late 1970s and 1990s was a global mystery. Six species were lost in Queensland alone. The prevailing wisdom was environmental factors must be to blame for their extinction. Could it be rising pollution? Or ultraviolet radiation from the growing hole in the ozone layer?

It turned out it was neither. A group of Australian scientists showed environmental change was not responsible, and in the process upended conventional thinking about what can trigger species loss. It started as a theory from Rick Speare, a Townsville-based doctor and vet: that an infectious disease was spreading north through Queensland, wiping out frog species as it went. He invited Lee Berger, a veterinary science graduate from the University of Melbourne, to join the investigation as a PhD candidate.

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The Environment Minister has been accused of misleading Parliament after she denied insulting the former President of Kirabati.

Hyundai Tweets that Kona EV available in Australia mid November, then deletes the Tweet a day later. Confusion ensues.

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Google Maps will now tell you where your nearest EV charging stations is – its charging speed, and its availability. You're welcome.

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Dutch photographer Marsel van Oosten’s stunning portrait of two endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys in China’s Qinling mountains has won this year’s prestigious prize. The winners were announced on Tuesday at London’s Natural History Museum.

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Resolution calling on Origin to review membership of business groups lobbying against climate change initiatives receives 46 per cent support. "Massive", say activists.

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Australian cleantech accelerator EnergyLab kicks off angel investor group with Sydney-based start-up, Symbiot Technology, as the internet-of-things energy management company launches its first investment round.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirms Australia will not be pulling out of Paris climate agreement: Why? There is no need, because it will have precisely zero impact on anything.

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Total Eren says it may nearly double size of Victoria's biggest solar plant, and add storage, as it flags push to become major player in Australian market.

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Hydro Tasmania has had an extremely productive year, returning a strong financial result for 2017-18.

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Opponents of the 160-mile Bayou Bridge pipeline, which will cross Native American land and 700 bodies of water, have chained themselves to machinery

As the flat-bottom fishing boat speeds through waterways deep inside Louisiana’s Atchafalaya basin, the largest river swamp in the US, the landscape suddenly shifts from high banks of sediment and oil pipeline markers on either side to an open grove of cypress trees towering above the water. Flocks of white ibis appear, seemingly out of nowhere, to nest and hunt amid the moss-dripped, century-old wetland forest.

“This is what the entire basin is supposed to look like,” explained Jody Meche, president of a local crawfishermen alliance and a lifelong resident with a thick Cajun accent.

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Ian Kiernan's iconic anti-litter campaign, begun in Australia in the 1980s, became a global success.

The IEA seeks an Energy and Environment Policy Analyst to join a small team of enthusiastic professionals reporting to the Head of the Environment and Climate Change Unit (ECC) in the Energy and Environment Division (EED).

This job entails supporting the sales of carbon credits and renewable energy certificates at a specialised firm with a large international portfolio.

A study of ancient dog DNA shows man's best friend has been at our side for at least 9,000 years.