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This year’s budget will have far-reaching implications for the economy, social services, public health, the environment and higher education

The Morrison government’s recovery budget is a single-year plan that bets the house on a private sector-led recovery.

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Dundonnell wind farm stops production after blade from one of its newly installed turbines falls to the ground.

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WCI auction volumes appear set to rise slightly in 2021 compared to this year’s quarterly sales, with free allowance distributions to industrial emitters falling by more than 10%, according to cap-and-trade programme data published Monday.

US refrigerant services provider Hudson Technologies and offset developer Bluesource announced a partnership on Tuesday to spur the creation of voluntary market carbon credit projects that reclaim high-global warming potential gases around the country.

Most of the Australian government’s 2020 budget was unsurprising. It’s packed with levers and hammers and tweezers to try and coax Australia through the inevitable pandemic-caused recession, attempting to place guide rails under the dip in economic growth and lift it upwards. As we already well know (and I have been shouting since April), a...

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We found 92 threatened species reported in industrial catch records. This is shameful and unnecessary. Leslie Roberson, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Carissa Klein, Postdoctoral research fellow in conservation biology, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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EUAs slipped further below €27 on Tuesday, sliding despite a stronger auction as prices wavered in response to differing reports of progress on a post-Brexit trade pact.

Aurora Energy Research calculates investment would have to quadruple capacity

Boris Johnson’s bold new vision for offshore wind to power every home in the UK by 2030 would require almost £50bn in investment and the equivalent of one turbine to be installed every weekday for the whole of the next decade.

The huge investment, calculated by Aurora Energy Research, an Oxford-based consultancy, would increase the UK’s offshore wind power capacity by four times what it is today, to reach 40GW by 2030.

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Airport to argue in supreme court it is bound to comply with UK carbon reduction targets

Heathrow will argue in the supreme court this week that its proposed third runway would only ever be built in accordance with Britain’s climate commitments, as it seeks to overturn a court of appeal verdict that stopped the airport’s expansion plans.

A two-day hearing starts on Wednesday which could allow Heathrow to proceed once more with building an additional runway.

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Government backing for facility to be built by London-based startup Entocycle

The UK’s first large-scale farm breeding insects for animal feed and pet food has moved a step closer after the government backed the project with a £10m funding package.

The new facility will be built by the insect farming start-up Entocycle, which will use it to raise black soldier flies fed on food waste to create sustainable insect protein.

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The Northeast US RGGI carbon market will offer 16.2 mln allowances at the December auction, the programme administrator announced Tuesday.

The UK scientist confessed to being a bit slow in class, but went on to win the Physics Nobel.

Inquiry into encounters off coasts of Spain and Portugal says speed could be a factor

Experts investigating a series of extraordinary encounters between orcas and yachts off the coasts of Spain and Portugal believe the animals responsible may have been triggered to target boat rudders by an earlier “aversive incident” involving some kind of vessel.

Related: 'They were having a real go': man tells of orca encounter off Spain

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Three scientists including the UK's Roger Penrose have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The 2020 federal budget offers few surprises: confirming new ARENA funding, money for CCS, an upgrade for coal generator and a snub for electric vehicles.

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The Guapinol community, on the country’s north coast, has become militarized in an effort to defend the river that supplies it

Gabriela Sorto has not seen or spoken to her father in six months, since the Honduran government’s draconian Covid-19 measures banned most travel and prison visits.

Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, a 48-year-old builder and farm worker, is one of eight protesters held in pretrial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, a small low-income community on the country’s north coast, could also soon be sent to jail.

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New Zealand carbon allowances notched their  sixth consecutive session of losses in Tuesday trade as the NZ$35 fixed price option (FPO) curbs appetite to buy at or above that level.

Boris Johnson will pledge £160m for building turbines as he promises to "build back greener".