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A single emitter in China’s biggest pilot emissions trading scheme failed to meet the annual compliance deadline, Guangdong regulators said Friday, again choosing to not disclose emissions data.

Burkina Faso’s sacred crocodiles, a family of cheetahs and a humpback whale are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite tracks formaldehyde emissions in the air over the Indian sub-continent.

Below is a table of the closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has terminated four more contracts through which its Emissions Reduction Fund had agreed to buy almost 4.5 million offsets.

EU carbon prices rose above €15 for the first time this week on Friday as a strong auction jolted prices upwards.

Reusable bags, bottles and containers are the key to success for these buyers in Birmingham.

Wildlife rescuers have reported a spike in the number of eastern grey kangaroos that appear to have Phalaris 'staggers', a condition commonly seen in ruminants such as sheep and cattle that have been grazing on the new shoots of Phalaris grasses, particularly Phalaris aquatica

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The news media routinely 'beats up' shark stories in search of clicks and profits, according to focus groups and surveys of social media posts. Peter Simmons, Associate Professor, Communication, Charles Sturt University Michael Mehmet, Lecturer in Marketing, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hathersage, Derbyshire: Vibrant and restless, swifts are never anywhere for long

I’m not sure why Coggers Lane is so named. A “cogger” in these parts is someone who wields a hammer, and by extension someone who hammers people: a fighter. Hathersage has its moments, but I’m guessing the name is more a fossil of the village’s industrial past. I do know it offers one of the prettiest views of the Derwent valley to the south, and to the east high above the gritstone cap of Higger Tor, richly coloured by the early evening sun. I stood drinking it in until the swarming midges drove me inside.

When I emerged hours later the sky was deepening to black, on the threshold of night. Blinking in the gloom, I heard them first: an outburst of screaming that broke over my head. Looking up, half a dozen swifts were slicing and jinking through the thickening dark as they skimmed the roof, or else dived towards their young sheltering in the eaves. Then they were back out, blading through warm air still thick with those hateful midges. Their throats bulged with them, a ball of protein glued together with saliva to bring back to their brood.

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You'd think they'd be grateful: Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg went to the effort of designing a climate and energy policy that does nothing, and Tony Abbott and friends are still complaining that it does too much.

Energy market rule-maker reinstates long dated emergency reserve, just months after it had dumped it.

Koko, the gorilla that mastered sign language, has died aged 46 in California. It was considered a pioneer in interspecies communication after being taught it by scientist Dr Francine Patterson. At one point Koko was estimated to able to understand about 2,000 words in English.

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Is your TV running? Not the opening line of a joke, but serious question smart meter giant Landis+Gyr wants to be able to answer for customers – before they even ask.

Small-scale solar systems installed by Australian homes and businesses have passed the three million-mark, with one in five homes now generating their own power.

There is a lot you should do before getting battery storage for you home. Here are 5 steps households should take before making the leap.

Adding or removing the colour cyan can have an impact on sleep, according to biologists.

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Two of the world’s best known automotive manufacturers continue push into fuel cell vehicle technologies, even though sales just a fraction of EVs.