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Scientists have discovered more evidence about a strange and worrying feature of the coronavirus

Carnaby’s black-cockatoo, the grey range thick-billed grasswren and the swift parrot just three species in deep trouble after laws fail them

Scientists and conservationists are calling for changes to Australia’s national environment law to urgently address failures in how it is protecting native wildlife, including bird species that have declined significantly over the past decade.

Samantha Vine, the head of conservation at BirdLife Australia, says: “Our laws are actually allowing extinction to happen.” 

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Two astronauts launched into orbit for historic mission to the International Space Station.

The Rutland Osprey Project has seen a higher level of engagement with its work following lockdown.

Scientists and artists take advantage of low noise levels to record birdsong around world

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Scientists and artists have used the drop in noise pollution during the coronavirus lockdown to create the first global public sound map of the spring dawn chorus.

Throughout May, people around the world have uploaded about 3,000 early morning bird recordings made on their phones to the Dawn Chorus website, where they are being shared to help conservation and to create public art. 

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After two months without visitors, Pairi Daiza is welcoming the public back, but in smaller numbers.

SpaceX will need to beat the weather to get Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken into orbit.

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WCI compliance entities built their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings on the secondary market as they awaited Q2 auction results, while speculators’ net long position remained roughly unchanged, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.

It will not do to wait until the next power plant announces its closure. Building alternative infrastructure should start now

The Covid-19 recession will bring fiscal stimulus on a massive scale. There are high hopes that the recovery will be green but it could be an uphill struggle. A big opportunity for Australia’s governments is to keep the renewable energy revolution going.

There will be pressure to invest in anything that quickly brings back jobs and prosperity, never mind long term, social or environmental goals. A return to the world as it was in 2019 will seem a marvellous goal for the many people whose jobs have gone or whose businesses have faltered. In order to improve the economy relative to pre-Covid, to build back better, will need governments to lead.

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Eastern European nation Moldova has this week been handed a plan to establish carbon market regulations within two years as part of efforts to ramp up climate action among the EU’s southeastern neighbours.

EUAs inched higher on Friday to end the week flat as bullish technicals continued to overshadow dips in the energy complex and wider fundamental weakness.

California lawmakers will advance language to a joint legislative discussion that would require regulator ARB to conduct an ETS rulemaking, though the provision's ultimate inclusion in the state budget is not a foregone conclusion, a senator's aide told Carbon Pulse on Friday.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) urged a federal judge on Friday to reject a request that would push back a hearing for the government’s constitutional challenge over the California-Quebec carbon market linkage, saying the state had created the time conflict it is now seeking to remedy.

Cross-party group highlights new evidence on how dirty air may worsen infections

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Air pollution must be kept at low levels to help avoid a second peak of coronavirus infections, according to a cross-party report from MPs.

There is growing evidence from around the world linking exposure to dirty air and increased infections and deaths from Covid-19. Lockdowns cut air pollution levels in many places, but the MPs said measures were needed to ensure it remains low.

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The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including tiny turtles and blossoming poppies.

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A European Parliament initiative to fast-track shipping into the EU ETS faces being blown off course after an influential committee rejected the idea this week.

A third-party submission to qualify RGGI ETS allowances and offsets for eligibility in the global aviation scheme CORSIA was not sanctioned by the Northeast US cap-and-trade programme and runs counter to existing regulations, the market administrator has told Carbon Pulse.

The Program Officer is a technical role within the American Carbon Registry (ACR), contributing to all aspects of ACR services, including, but not limited to ensuring the highest level of quality for all ACR-registered projects and related offset credits issued by ACR.

Scientists are learning just how fast the ice margin of Antarctica can retreat in a warming world.