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A new method using existing communications cables could make earthquakes easier to detect.

A four-day meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) board broke without taking any major decisions on Wednesday as rich and poor nations rowed and failed to tackle how to replenish the GCF’s rapidly depleting funds currently lacking a US contribution.

Scientists used radio tags to track Asian hornets, allowing their nests to be detected quickly.

Delaware’s Superior Court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s participation in RGGI after the plaintiffs were unable to demonstrate that the regional US cap-and-trade scheme harmed them financially.

Australia’s carbon price could more than double by 2030 as the weak CO2 target for electricity generation will force higher costs on other sectors, analysts said Wednesday.

A carbon tax and dividend system could usher in an era of clean energy independence

Taking action on climate is about a lot more than our energy economy. Climate disruption is the leading threat to our built environment, an accelerant of armed conflict, and a leading cause of mass migration. Its effects intensify and prolong storms, droughts, wildfires, and floods — resulting in the US spending as much on disaster management in 2017 as in the three decades from 1980 to 2010.

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New data suggests worst cars are now 32 times more polluting than the best – risking all diesels being banned from cities, say experts

Ultra-dirty new diesel engines are being sold alongside ultra-clean models in the UK, according to new data, leaving car buyers facing what experts call a “nightmare”.

On-the-road tests by testing firm Emissions Analytics found that new models of Mercedes-Benz CLS, Seat Arona and Citroen DS 7 produced tiny amounts of pollution, up to 75% below the official EU limit.

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From fearsome predator to teddy bear: tracing the hidden history of brown bears in Britain.

Reporting to the Board of Carbon Market Watch, the Executive Director will have the opportunity to lead an agile and fast moving team to implement political campaigns on a variety of issues related to carbon pricing, climate finance, human rights and public participation. He/She will be responsible for the smooth running of the organisation, ensure stable financial resources and implement a forward looking development and expansion plan.

New Zealand carbon allowances rose to an all-time high on Wednesday as sellers were reluctant to satisfy demand amid expectations of higher prices in future.

A fight is looming in the Coalition partyroom over the National Energy Guarantee, and this fight threatens to open up old divisions.

Conservationists criticise environment minister for pushing strategy that affects threatened species

Josh Frydenberg has challenged Western Australia over its management of sharks, proposing the state pay for a network of satellite-linked baited drumlines to protect high-traffic beaches.

Frydenberg said 176 of the Smart (shark management alert in real time) drumlines could be deployed along 260km of WA’s 12,000km coastline, covering both Perth beaches and popular surf beaches in the southwest.

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A cafe is trying to cut its plastic waste by using donated mugs and cups to serve takeaway hot drinks.

Tidal power is the only renewable source derived from the moon. Now an extraordinary array of devices promise to unlock this vital energy potential

Using giant kites, blades and paddles, and mimicking pogo sticks, blowholes and even the human heart, groups around the world are on the cusp of harnessing the colossal power of the oceans.

The challenge is huge - seas have been battering coasts and sweeping sailors to their doom for millennia - but so is the prize: huge amounts of clean, reliable and renewable electricity for an energy-hungry world.

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Corporates have driven around $3 billion investment in new renewable energy projects via corporate PPAs.

Prees Heath, Shropshire: Because of callous exploitation by collectors, this location was long kept secret but conservation work has helped the butterflies. Now there are clouds of them

“Silver-studded,” said the man hunched over his phone, pointing at a patch of red fescue grass. “Clouds of ’em.” Without looking up, he waved his arm over the common of Prees Heath. A stiff breeze ruffled the grass and carried the drone from surrounding trunk roads as sunlight flashed through scudding clouds. The day was as blue and silver-studded as the butterflies. Plebejus argus, the silver-studded blue butterfly, has its last outpost in the English Midlands here.

Plebejus suggests commoner and argus is perhaps keeping watch, but like the dwellers of many heathland commons, life for the butterflies here hung by a thread. Because of callous exploitation by collectors in the past, this location was long kept secret but conservation work to restore the heathland has helped the butterflies, and now there are waymarkers pointing them out.

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Another 110MW solar farm joins the grid in Queensland, taking that state's total to nine, and matching NSW and the ACT.

Driverless electric shuttle buses capable of travelling at speeds of up to 45km/h to be trialled in planned ‘autonomous vehicle hub’ in SA.

Elon Musk has tapped into what could be a deal-closer to bring gas-guzzlers over the line, albeit asking the converted.

JinkoSolar has supplied 275.4 MWdc of high efficiency modules to Green Light Contractors Pty Ltd for use in the Bungala Solar Farm near Port Augusta, South Australia.