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British Steel and other UK companies reportedly face hefty EU ETS bills due to Brexit-linked market safeguards, as the government continues to wrangle over its divorce from the bloc.

The recycling crisis in Victoria with recycled materials going to landfill is only the tip of an on-going national crisis for recycled waste Australia-wide.

Evidence collected by Friends of the Earth allege estates have continued practice despite voluntary commitments to stop

An official watchdog is investigating five grouse-shooting estates for allegedly damaging the environment in a practice that they had pledged to stop.

Natural England is looking into allegations that the estates have repeatedly burned heather on their land to maximise the number of grouse for shooting. The watchdog launched its investigation after being passed evidence in the form of eyewitness accounts that the environmental group Friends of the Earth had collected.

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Former UN secretary-general says country must live up to Theresa May’s commitment

• Stop funding climate change, says Ban Ki-moon
  

Ban Ki-moon has urged Britain to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, in what he said would mark a test of Theresa May’s commitment to act on climate change.

The former UN secretary general said he was deeply concerned that the UK’s export credit agency had provided billions of pounds in recent years to support businesses involved in oil and gas schemes around the world.

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Britain’s carnivore numbers are booming after clampdown on hunting and pollution

They must survive government culls, gamekeepers, poisoning, persecution and increasingly busy roads but, in modern times at least, Britain’s carnivores have never had it so good: badger, otter, pine marten, polecat, stoat and weasel populations have “markedly improved” since the 1960s, according to a new study.

The otter, polecat and pine marten have bounced back from the brink of extinction, and the country’s only carnivorous mammal now in danger of being wiped out is the wildcat, with the dwindling Scottish populations hit by hybridisation with domestic and feral cats.

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New techniques will help customs officers identify and seize wood that came from endangered species

The wooden blinds that lie crumpled in Peter Gasson’s laboratory in Kew Gardens are chipped and forlorn-looking. Their manufacturers had claimed they were made of pine but customs officers were wary. And their suspicions were well-founded. Gasson, Kew’s research leader on wood and timber, found the blinds were not made of pine but ramin.

“All ramin trees, which grow in south-east Asia, are endangered and trade in their wood is illegal,” said Gasson. “On this occasion, we got lucky and stopped people profiting from this trade.”

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Shadow environment minister sceptical whether law followed on approvals for coal project

Tony Burke says he has always been sceptical about whether the law has been followed in relation to previous environmental approvals for the controversial Adani coal project in Queensland.

But the shadow environment minister argues that he can’t telegraph a firm disposition about what he might do about the approvals in the future without making a prejudgment that could render any subsequent decision unlawful.

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Only about nine per cent of the ocean floor has been mapped using high-definition technology. But a new global initiative aims to change that. It’s called the Seabed 2030 Project. Also, how viable is seabed mining? And will climate change see the Arctic turned into a major shipping route?

This native succulent is a tasty bush food. Bronwyn Barkla, Associate Professor of Plant Protein Biochemistry, Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

From Gucci’s power suiting to a gameshow that inspired Jeremy Scott for this season’s runway for Moschino, Jo Jones picks her 10 highlights from the autumn/winter 2019 shows

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The continued mining and burning of fossil fuels supports those with financial interests, including whole economies such as that of Australia. But this activity is destructive to the long-term health and well-being of all people elsewhere.

In a world of rapid population growth, intensive agriculture, and widespread use of pesticides, what is the future of food and can we feed ourselves sustainably?

California state agencies kicked off the development Friday of a Clean Miles Standard (CMS) to reduce the carbon footprint of app-based ride-sharing companies, such as Uber and Lyft, but officials have yet to decide how a possible crediting programme might interact with the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

A Washington state senator proposed a flat $15/tonne carbon tax on Thursday as part of a larger transportation funding package, potentially revitalising efforts to price CO2 in the Evergreen State after two separate initiatives failed last year.

EU carbon prices fell to a fresh 2.5-month low on Friday before finding support and crawling back towards €19 for a big weekly loss that pushed EUAs deeper into bear market territory.

A team races against time and the elements to save 95-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in the Aussie outback.

Fossil fuel subsidies can drastically skew the overall impact of carbon pricing, according to new research that found the UK transport sector facing an net impact of more than £200/tCO2 (€230, $260) while some EU ETS-covered sectors face only £2.

Australia agrees to discard of one million tonnes of waste in world's largest coral reef.

Hobbyists say Jackson Oswalt of Tennessee is youngest person to achieve fusion

An American 14-year-old has reportedly become the youngest known person in the world to create a successful nuclear reaction.

The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, a hobbyist group, has recognised the achievement by Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, when he was aged 12 in January 2018.

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