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 The RGGI cap-and-trade system's CO2 output plummeted more than 10% during the third quarter of 2019 as New York- and Massachusetts-based generators emitted less during milder weather, putting the Northeast ETS on track to eclipse its all-time yearly low.

The unrelenting drought crisis is causing growing anger and frustration as stakeholders argue over what little water is left the system.

The proposed structure of Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) raises questions about the additionality of GHG reductions from oil and gas efficiency improvements under the programme, and may potentially crowd out the development of new alternative fuels, a researcher said.

Scientists are struggling to figure out what to do with the mountains of plastic that are polluting the environment but Angelina Arora might have found a solution.

Carbon price jumps, but long term clouded by Taylor's climate policy review and the threat of low quality "grey" credits for big polluters.

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There is a myth that dingoes are extinct and wild dogs are all that remain in Australia. Our results show dingoes in New South Wales persist despite some mixing with domestic dogs. Kylie M Cairns, Research fellow, UNSW Brad Nesbitt, Adjunct Research Fellow, University of New England Mathew Crowther, Associate professor, University of Sydney Mike Letnic, Professor, Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW Shawn Laffan, Associate professor, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The virus can cause 'immune amnesia' which shifts our defences back to a 'baby-like' state.

Common pesticides found to starve fish ‘astoundingly fast’ by killing aquatic insects

The Silent Spring prophecy that pesticides could “still the leaping of fish” has been confirmed, according to scientists investigating the collapse of fisheries in Japan. They say similar impacts are likely to have occurred around the world.

The long-term study showed an immediate plunge in insect and plankton numbers in a large lake after the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides to rice paddies. This was rapidly followed by the collapse of smelt and eel populations, which had been stable for decades but rely on the tiny creatures for food.

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The suspension of the UK’s ability to allocate or auction EU carbon allowances will continue despite British lawmakers agreeing a delay to the Brexit deadline with Brussels, the UK government said Thursday.

Environmentalist who first calculated the damage caused by clearing tropical rainforests to raise cattle for hamburgers

Norman Myers, who has died of dementia aged 85, was the scientist who first calculated that every year, worldwide, an area of tropical rainforest the size of England and Wales was burned, bulldozed or felled to ranch beef for US hamburgers.

That, more than 40 years ago, was not orthodoxy. Satellite imagery over the next decade proved him right. He also predicted – and explained his reasoning, in his second book, The Sinking Ark (1979) – that species were being extinguished at the rate of one a day, rather than the accepted figure of one a year. This too was challenged, and later Myers conceded he had been wrong; he should have said 50 species a day.

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The fairy penguins under my shack are gone, and soon the forty-spotted pardalotes and swift parrots will join them. Our children knew these birds; their children will not

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I am not a twitcher’s binocular strap, but I adore birds. I watch birds for hours. Their freedom and joy move me. Something in their play and way suggest minds far different than ours. A man I once met who kept cockatoos told me that you have to be careful because they fuck with your head.

And they do.

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After Chile withdraws from holding the global climate summit, Spain offers to host it in Madrid.

This year's UN climate talks will now be held in Madrid, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said Thursday, with the Spanish government offering to hold the summit after Chile pulled out due to ongoing protests in the country.

European carbon prices dipped on Thursday after hitting a fresh eight-day high.

Decision would mark U-turn for PM, who once said fracking was ‘glorious news for humanity’

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The prime minister could be poised to sound the death knell for the UK’s controversial shale gas industry after more than a decade of support for fracking, according to sources.

Boris Johnson is expected to rule out any new fracking in the UK as part of his election campaign following rising opposition to fracking among voters, and within his own party.

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The European Commission adopted rule changes on Thursday aiming to clamp down on rampant gaming of the bloc’s carbon market by industrial companies over the past decade.

Analysts Refinitiv have hired a Beijing-based expert from the Energy Foundation to track developments ahead of next year’s launch of China’s national emissions trading market.

Our team of environment writers from around the world reflects on the urgency and breadth of the climate crisis, and the role of readers in making our coverage possible

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The response from Guardian readers around the world to our recently launched climate pledge has been overwhelming, and given us even more determination to put this urgent issue front and centre of our journalism

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator issued just over 76,000 new carbon credits this week, as numbers fell to a quarter of the weekly average so far this year.