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Campaigners find many legally sold antique ivory trinkets in Europe come from recently killed elephants.

Laura Foster explains how the Novichok nerve agent works and what to do if you think you've been exposed to it.

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Ontario carbon allowances held in WCI cap-and-trade accounts equal roughly 1% of the total number of permits held by California and Quebec entities, raising questions regarding the future of those units as well as the scheme’s overall emissions cap moving forward.

The overwhelming majority of krill companies are to stop fishing in vast areas of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The role of the Governance Programme Director is to design, organize and implement a renewed strategy for IDDRI’s « Governance » programme, relying on IDDRI’s added value and differentiation, its impact as well as anticipation capacity, and its complementarity with other players, identifying IDDRI’s priority activities in the institutionalised sustainable development agenda.

Verra seeks an Intern to support research and administration for the Landscape Standard. The ideal candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills, qualitative research experience and interest in sustainability.

Creation of the world’s largest marine reserve comes a step closer as major companies add support

The creation of the world’s biggest ocean sanctuary, protecting a huge tract of remote seas around Antarctica, has come a step closer after major fishing companies came out in favour of the plan.

A global campaign – spearheaded by Greenpeace and backed by 1.7 million people – had put massive pressure on the krill fishing industry and retailers amid fears it was endangering one of the world’s last great wildernesses, undermining the global fight against climate change.

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Exclusive: Data obtained by the Guardian suggests land clearing may be accelerating under Biodiversity Conservation Act

Complaints about suspected illegal land clearing to a government hotline have increased sharply under the New South Wales government’s new Biodiversity Conservation Act, suggesting the rate of land clearing may be accelerating.

Data obtained by the Guardian under freedom of information laws after an eight month battle with the Department of Environment shows that reports of suspected illegal land clearing have increased by nearly 30% in the months since August last year when the new laws came into force.

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EU carbon prices climbed above €16 for the first time in a month on Monday as power prices continued their heatwave-induced climb.

Reports that China has withdrawn from the voluntary first phases of the UN’s CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme are inaccurate, according to a representative of China’s delegation to ICAO.

New Ontario Premier Doug Ford should hold consultations on his plan for unwinding the province’s cap-and-trade programme and how that will affect Ontario's emissions reduction targets, according to the leader of the province’s environmental watchdog.

EDF Energy thought to have piggybacked on plans by Centrica to sell off some of nuclear power stake

Three international banks have begun courting buyers for a 49% stake in Britain’s eight nuclear power stations, starting the process of a major shakeup of the sector’s ownership.

UK-listed Centrica said in February it was looking to sell its 20% stake in the nuclear plants, which UBS and Goldman Sachs are understood to be handling.

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A boy who jumped off a cliff into water in Llanberis escaped injury when rocks fell in after him.

"Depressed over Brexit. Went fishing," he posts alongside a photo of himself holding the protected species.

Environmental sleuths have tracked down what they believe is the location of a large illegal source of ozone-destroying emissions.

Scientists find a spectacular forest of bamboo coral, rare carnivorous sponges, and species never before seen in the region

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Tongue-ties are used in Australian horse racing but are banned in most other horse sports. Samantha Franklin, Associate Professor in Veterinary Physiology, University of Adelaide Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New Zealand fuel supplier Z Energy has bought nearly 60,000 voluntary carbon credits at prices higher than in the nation’s mandatory ETS to offset its operational emissions.

Deniers have conservative media outlets and control the Republican Party; climate alarmists are largely ignored

Those who debunk climate change misinformation often face a dilemma. We’re flooded with such a constant deluge of climate myths, where should we focus our efforts? Climate misinformation is propagated via congressional climate hearings, conservative media outlets, denial blogs, and even from some genuine climate alarmists.

Specifically, there has recently been a debate as to whether Skeptical Science – a website with a database of climate myths and scientific debunkings, to which I’m a primary contributor – would be more useful and effective if it called out misinformation from ‘alarmists,’ and if it eliminated or revised its Climate Misinformers page.

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