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Ecuador’s subcommittee in charge of advising on environmental reforms for the national legislature voted Saturday to explicitly permit carbon trading, bringing the country one crucial step closer to endorsement after over 15 years of repudiation.

Smoke from wildfires in north America has brought a "vivid" hue to skies above Britain ahead of a rare lunar phenomenon.

Musician Brian May has led a 10-year study to combat bovine TB spread and help end badger culling.

Brisbane is aiming to be the first Olympic Games host to make carbon savings greater than the emissions the event produces. That’s easier said than done, so what’s the plan to achieve this goal? Ali Cheshmehzangi, Head of School, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Spotlight on Australia’s ‘nature positive’ environmental reforms: last chance for this parliament to get serious about halting the decline of nature. Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University Brendan Wintle, Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Martine Maron, Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Huge solar and battery project near Dunedoo clears another planning hurdle, but must still wait for federal government approval.

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Rooftop solar has achieved a record share of generation and sent operational demand down to new low in the country's most coal dependent state.

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Queensland police say the man remained in his tinny after the whale hit him in waters near Coolangatta

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A man has suffered serious injuries after being struck by a whale while in a tinny in waters near the border of Queensland and New South Wales.

Jetski riders off the coast of Coolangatta called emergency services just before 9am on Sunday when a whale reportedly collided with the man in his boat.

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Experts worry hydrogen cars will delay electrification of transport – but only five were sold in Australia in the last quarter, while EVs sell steadily

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Is Australia’s love affair with the hydrogen car over before it began? New data shows just five vehicles running on hydrogen fuel-cells were sold across the country last quarter.

Battery-powered electric vehicles, on the other hand, sold steadily. Australians bought 25,353 EVs in the three months to 30 June – 8% of the total. Hybrid cars were even more popular, with 46,727 sold.

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‘Freshie’ spotted in Hughenden’s human-made lake after unexpectedly escaping death in cold snap

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The residents of Hughenden in Queensland’s outback have two questions.

How did a freshwater crocodile come to be living in their local swimming spot – and when is it going to move on?

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Convicted of non-violent offences in Insulate Britain action, Dr Diana Warner is second GP to have licence suspended, which a medical tribunal ruled could damage patient trust

A retired GP has become the second doctor to have their medical licence suspended after being convicted of non-violent offences during peaceful climate protests.

Dr Diana Warner, who worked as a GP for 35 years in surgeries around Bristol, was imprisoned for a total of six weeks for twice breaching private anti-protest injunctions banning people from blocking traffic on the M25 in 2021 and 2022. She was also jailed for six weeks for gluing her hand to the dock during her plea hearing at a magistrates court in east London in 2022.

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Financial entities further built their net long V25 California Carbon Allowance (CCAs) holdings, while compliance demand for RGGI Allowance (RGA) holdings extended for another week as prices surged to new record highs, according to weekly data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

A group of US oil companies with global operations jointly filed a brief last week asking a court to dismiss a Pennsylvania county’s claims that their industry had exacerbated climate change.

The bill sponsor of California’s emissions disclosure law proposed a six-month implementation delay to the regulation, among other changes this week.

After the latest round of talks, the UN negotiation group in charge of defining a mechanism to share benefits derived from the digital sequence information on genetic resources (DSI) on Friday said parties are getting closer to an agreement, which is set to include the establishment of a global fund.

Experts think 10-year-old Tegan uncovered prints of a huge herbivore from the late triassic period.

Mexico stands to be less exposed than other Latin American economies to the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), Carbon Pulse heard this week at the Mexico Carbon Forum in Guanajuato, although the country could be caught in the crossfire of potential obstructive trade measures by the US.

Southeast Asia’s top steelmaker is likely to be hit by Europe’s carbon border taxes but not necessarily enough to force it to make a low-carbon change, a paper said this week.

Dr Adi Paterson’s statements are apparently at odds with the group’s official position, which says nuclear is needed to tackle the climate crisis

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The chair of a leading Australian nuclear advocacy group has called concerns that carbon dioxide emissions are driving a climate crisis an “irrational fear of a trace gas which is plant food” and has rejected links between worsening extreme weather and global heating.

Several statements from Dr Adi Paterson, reviewed by the Guardian, appear at odds with statements from the group he chairs, Nuclear for Australia, which is hosting a petition saying nuclear is needed to tackle an “energy and climate crisis”.

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Surviving a shark – or lion, or bear – attack is the key criteria for entry into Bite Club. Together its members navigate their next big challenge: what happens after you survive?

Paul Kenny was camping behind the dunes at Samurai beach, north of Port Stephens on the Australian east coast, when he jumped naked into the water to “just wake up”. It was freezing but he caught a good wave, got some speed up and hit something. At first he thought it was another person but there was no one else swimming. He had body surfed into the head of a 2.5-metre (8ft) bronze whaler shark and his outstretched arm was in its teeth.

And with that, Kenny met the criteria to enter the small, exclusive Bite Club.

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