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Amateur palaeontologists dig up marine fossils; dry weather forces feral camels south; and horses and high fashion at the Louth country race meeting.

EU carbon held above €21 on Friday in another volatile session that cemented a huge gain for August, though observers say prices could come under pressure next week as auction volumes return to normal.

UK emitters will be required to participate in a cross-EU data collection exercise in 2019 to help the bloc plan for the next phase of the EU ETS, the British government has told plant operators, adding that the data could help it design its own post-Brexit carbon pricing system.

UK researchers decode the golden eagle genome - the blueprint for the 'king of birds'.

California lawmakers’ rush to approve climate-related bills ahead of Friday’s deadline for the 2-year legislative session continued this week, including bills designed to eliminate the release of potent heat-trapping gasses and allow for more forest clearing in an effort to prevent wildfires.

A baby freen sea turtle, a grizzly bear and her cubs, and a grey-headed flying fox are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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Former head of Greenpeace UK and Labour peer revered as fearless campaigner

Peter Melchett, the environmental campaigner and Labour peer, has died aged 71.

Lord Melchett, who lived in Norfolk, became the executive director of Greenpeace UK in 1989 and was most recently policy director of the Soil Association.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Australian waste specialist firm LMS Energy this week received over 840,000 carbon credits for emission reductions at landfill sites across the nation.

China’s Guangdong province has suspended its regional carbon offset programme, as the local government wants to improve the mechanism before issuing further credits.

Researchers say underwater drone can monitor coral bleaching and inject coral-eating starfish with vinegar

An underwater drone that can keep watch over the Great Barrier Reef’s health and kill invading species is ready to be put to the test.

Researchers from Queensland University of Technology say their robot reef protector can monitor coral bleaching, water quality, pest species, pollution and sediment buildup.

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Animal husbandry is contaminating China’s water and has been linked to turning lakes bright green, a phenomenon known as eutrophication

The farm, located at the end of a narrow dirt path, announces its presence with a piercing stench. At first, the caretaker of the collective facility in Kunming says the farm recycles all the animal waste into manure fertiliser. But later, he sheepishly points behind the pigsty.

There, hordes of flies swarm above a festering field of grey-black dung. A few times a month, Cai shovels the steaming excrement produced by some 100 swine owned by local families into a nearby creek, where a mile downstream, villagers fish on the rocky shores of a small lake.

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The WA government has announced plans to reclassify dingoes as no different to wild dogs - paving the way for them to be culled at will. But dingoes are unique and deserve to be recognised as such. Bradley Smith, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Lily van Eeden, PhD Candidate in Human-Wildlife Conflict, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

31 August 1889: No satisfactory reason has been given as to why fewer of these graceful and beautiful birds have been sighted this year

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As the time approaches when the swallows prepare for their southward migrations attention is again called to the undoubted fact that in Lancashire, as in other parts of the kingdom, these graceful and beautiful birds have been seen this year in fewer numbers than for a long time past. Here and there they have settled, but all over the country the remark is heard that in hundreds of houses the eaves have been tenantless this year. No very satisfactory reason for this unwonted neglect has yet been given. The birds have been known to avoid certain districts when the cholera was raging there, but there has this year happily been no such grim cause for their avoidance of us; and it is not improbable that they knew by instinct that their accustomed sources of food supply would not be so abundant this summer.

Related: A tide is turning for the swallows

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The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has decided to sell 20 GL of temporary water (regulated allocations) held in the Goulburn, using a competitive tender process.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has decided to sell 20 GL of temporary water (regulated allocations) held in the Goulburn, using a competitive tender process.

Australian physicist says technology could make signing up for energy accounts as easy as a mobile phone subscription

An Australian physicist is leading a push to pioneer a new type of low-cost solar energy he believes could make signing up for energy accounts as straightforward as taking up a mobile phone plan.

In May last year, the University of Newcastle professor Paul Dastoor used organic printed solar cells to power screens and displays at an exhibition in Melbourne.

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Tuilaepa Sailele berates leaders who fail to take issue seriously, singling out Australia, India, China and the US

The prime minister of Samoa has called climate change an “existential threat ... for all our Pacific family” and said that any world leader who denied climate change’s existence should be taken to a mental hospital.

In a searing speech delivered on Thursday night during a visit to Sydney, Tuilaepa Sailele berated leaders who fail to take climate change seriously, singling out Australia, as well as India, China and the US, which he said were the “three countries that are responsible for all this disaster”.

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Police and wildlife experts say some drones are being flown dangerously close to breeding birds and animals.

We unveil our new website focusing on electric vehicle news, analysis, road trips and reviews.

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