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The sustainable finance market surged in 2018, with a record $247 billion worth of sustainability-themed debt instruments raised during the year, according to research company BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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The ACT’s highly successful Energy Efficiency Improvement Scheme will be expanded to include several new programs and will be extended to 2030, Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Shane Rattenbury announced today.

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If a clock ticks for 10,000 years will anybody be there to hear it? Long term thinking...come on...let's do this.

Claire and Emily run a hub that empowers people to turn their old clothes into new ones.

The former Cambridge professor had received the highest honour in his subject - a Fields Medal.

Spektr-R has stopped receiving commands from Earth, Russian astrophysicists say.

Interior department continues processing permits and moves forward with controversial plan to increase drilling in the Arctic

Three weeks into the longest US government shutdown in history, many important government services have been paused – but the Trump administration has continued efforts to expand oil drilling.

Despite the shutdown directive, which has seen national park staff furloughed and the parks suffering from neglect, the interior department has continued processing oil drilling permits and applications. It has also moved forward with a controversial plan to increase drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).

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Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick has been crawling across lawns for more than 70 years, it's just that this one is on the top of a mountain and is full of plants from the cretaceous.[Repeat]

The northeast US RGGI market could see allowance supply slashed by 98 million tonnes over the course of post-2020 programme if it expands to include New Jersey and Virginia, according to new analysis commissioned by the former.

The amount of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits transferred increased by 50% last year, as December set new records for average prices and total volume transacted, according to state data.

Historian Grace Karskens on reconnecting the early history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River with the landscape.

European carbon prices rose on Friday, continuing to recover ground lost during the recent sell-off, though traders warned that more volatility likely lies ahead.

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

Scientists called study’s findings upsetting and said toxic air must be cut

Air pollution is as bad for pregnant women as smoking in raising the risk of miscarriage, according to a scientific study. They said the finding was upsetting and that toxic air must be cut to protect the health of the next generation.

Air pollution is already known to harm foetuses by increasing the risk of premature birth and low birth weight. Recent research has also found pollution particles in placentas.

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Wildlife artist whose skill derived from his deep understanding of the living world

The wildlife artist Greg Poole, who has died aged 58 after a heart attack, was among the best of a generation who revitalised a tradition always in danger of lapsing into decorative prettiness. His artwork is distinctive for its bold design and graphic verve, the confidence and intensity of his line, a vivid palette and the successful capture of the continuum of life. Snapshots of the natural world – otters, bees, curlews, bluebells – executed with speed and the intensity of field sketches, coalesce into fully realised pictures of nature at large.

His was a kind of subjective realism. He drew his animals and plants as they were (he was always interested in habitats too), but also as he experienced them. Many wildlife artists start out with art and find their subject; he began as a birdwatcher and wildlife observer and found art the only release for what nature stirred in him. He worked in the field, sprawled on the ground, with paper clipped to a card (no easel, no artist’s stool) and often used twigs as his pens or brushes. Encamped in a Norfolk saltmarsh, he requisitioned old cornflake boxes to print miraculous images of the samphire at his feet and the oystercatchers in a creek.

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Germany’s weekly EU carbon auctions will resume on Feb. 1, platform hosts EEX announced late Friday, marking the end of an almost three-month stoppage in the country’s sales.

The $3bn refurbishment of the original sat-phone network will help transform air-traffic surveillance.

The facility is set to produce 150 million tomatoes a year, helped by red LED lights and bees.

The scheduled implementation of Mexico’s ETS from 2022 onward will have minimal impact on the country's economy, but some potential burdens on heavy industry could be alleviated through certain measures in the early years of the programme, new analysis has found.