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Ireland becomes world’s first nation to legislate to divest completely from fossil fuels, after passage of bill compelling €8.9bn Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) to withdraw all money invested in oil, gas and coal.

Wind, hydro and solar combined to supply 45.8% of Spain's electricity demand in first six months of 2018.

Next Kraftwerke has teamed up with sustainable energy company Eneco Belgium and battery supplier Alfen to integrate a 2-megawatt battery to its Virtual Power Plant Next Pool.

National Grid says rapid rise of EVs will help the UK shift towards more renewable and low-carbon electricity generation.

Australia’s exported greenhouse emissions are higher per person than even Saudi Arabia’s.

Heavy rains that hit western Japan last week have resulted in landslides and flooding – the worst the country has experienced in 36 years. The death toll has risen to 200, with most of those in the Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures

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MPs demand legislation to ensure the government delivers on post-Brexit air pollution promises

Mountain goat, red deer, cereal grains and a toxic fern: What our ancestors ate 5,000 years ago.

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US carbon prices moved in opposite directions this week, but the change in values and volumes was minimal in both markets as new WCI data was published and the holiday season neared its peak.

How do you help a country get over plastic? By creating awareness and minor inconveniences and by providing lots of reminders. Kim Borg, Doctoral Candidate & Research Officer at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Difficult to coordinate, yes. But it could ameliorate Australia’s waste and recycling woes

In June, a wide-ranging Senate inquiry into the state of Australia’s recycling system recommended a national container deposit scheme (CDS) be rolled out across the country.

Of all 18 inquiry recommendations, a national scheme is one that is at least part way there, all states except Tasmania and Victoria with an existing scheme or one soon to be implemented.

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Average credit prices in California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) continued to set new highs in June, as market participants await more information on credit figures from Q1 2018 and regulator ARB’s rulemaking package.

European carbon prices fell on Thursday, briefly dipping below €16 amid tumbling energy prices to end a 10% rally that had built up over eight straight days of gains.

Far more likely the Romans merely exploited any dead whales found floating or cast ashore, suggests Pete Eiseman-Renyard

The researchers first quoted in your article (Romans had whale industry, research suggests, 11 July) have made a very bold extrapolation from very small evidence. I would agree with Dr Erica Rowan, cited towards the end of the piece, that one might expect documentary evidence if the Romans actually had a whaling industry. Far more likely they merely exploited any drift whales (dead whales found floating or cast ashore).

Right whales (so called because they were the right whale to catch, being slow-swimming, floated once killed, and had a thick layer of blubber and a mouth full of baleen) certainly were exploited in the post-Roman period, and the Biscayan community had been rendered extinct by the Basque whalers by medieval times.

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Researchers believe a galactic "monster" is a source of cosmic neutrinos detected on Earth.

Bill passed by parliament means more than €300m shares in coal, oil, peat and gas will be sold ‘as soon as practicable’

The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support in the lower house of parliament.

The state’s €8bn national investment fund will be required to sell all investments in coal, oil, gas and peat “as soon as is practicable”, which is expected to mean within five years. Norway’s huge $1tn sovereign wealth fund has only partially divested from fossil fuels, targeting some coal companies, and is still considering its oil and gas holdings.

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Campaigners say that what appears to be a rare blue whale has been killed by Icelandic whalers.

Dolphin spotters on a boat trip were surrounded by thousands of jellyfish near New Quay harbour.