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Over the next 50 years, the arid zone – containing the areas of true desert – is projected to expand well into the Murray-Darling Basin and almost entirely envelope the Lake Eyre Basin. Zacchary Larkin, Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University Stephen Tooth, Professor of Physical Geography, Aberystwyth University Timothy J. Ralph, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California regulator ARB is working on a formal process to determine compliance offsets that provide a direct environmental benefit to the state (DEBs), but it is unclear when that application may be finalised, regulatory sources said.

Bushfires reduced numbers from 500 to 50 but newly discovered populations are cause for optimism, conservationists say

Hopes that Kangaroo Island’s unique mouse-like dunnart can be saved from extinction have been boosted after the tiny marsupial was captured on camera at a new location.

More than 90% of the threatened Kangaroo Island dunnart’s habitat was burned in bushfires in early January.

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He got trampled by elephants, swam in crocodile-infested waters and was painted by Francis Bacon – while making images revealing man’s plunder of the natural world

The American writer Bob Colacello once described the young Peter Beard, who has died aged 82, as “half-Tarzan, half-Byron”, neatly encapsulating the larger-than-life charisma of an artist whose reputation for adventure and excess often overshadowed his creative talent. As a 2007 Vanity Fair profile put it: “Whether he’s at a New York nightclub or deep in the African wilderness, world-famous photographer and artist Peter Beard is surrounded by drugs, debts, and beautiful women.”

Related: Peter Beard, photographer, wildlife advocate and socialite, dies at 82

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EU cohesion funding is an untapped funding source for cutting the bloc's emissions, according to a report released by green groups on Monday that found only one tenth of disbursed cash is allocated towards climate objectives. 

The 60 Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX firm appear in a line crossing the night sky.

Thailand and British Columbia will miss UN body ICAO’s Monday deadline to resubmit their offset programme applications for eligibility under the CORSIA global aviation scheme, as they seek to make changes to their methodologies for future intakes.

The first known comet to visit us from another star system has an unusual make-up.

EUAs fell below €21 on Monday, continuing to fade following last week's dart to a one-month high as markets remained in thrall to coronavirus developments.

Research shows almost 80% of deaths across four countries were in most polluted regions

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High levels of air pollution may be “one of the most important contributors” to deaths from Covid-19, according to research.

The analysis shows that of the coronavirus deaths across 66 administrative regions in Italy, Spain, France and Germany, 78% of them occurred in just five regions, and these were the most polluted.

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The World Health Organization warns high air pollution could be a risk factor for severe Covid-19 cases.

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Major pork plant closed after hundreds of workers contract coronavirus, while speeding up of poultry production lines raises concerns over standards

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The US government is accelerating controversial regulatory rollbacks to speed up production at meat plants, as companies express growing alarm at the impact of Covid-19 on their operations.

Last week Smithfield shut down one of the largest pork plants in the country after hundreds of employees contracted the coronavirus. The plant in South Dakota – whose output represents 4–5% of US pork production – is reported to be the largest single-source coronavirus hotspot in the US, with more than 600 cases. In response, the company said it was “critical” for the meat industry to “continue to operate unabated”.

Now it has emerged that as a wave of plants announce closures, US meat plants are being granted permission to increase the speed of their production lines. This comes despite warnings that the waivers for higher speeds on slaughter and processing lines will compromise food safety.

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Councils in England can now ban cars from streets more easily to allow space for social distancing.

You will be expected to manage a global portfolio of carbon credit generating projects. You will be working in a rapidly evolving business area, often in challenging regulatory and legal environments, requiring you to be agile and perform well under pressure.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has distributed 355,000 new carbon credits, keeping up its issuance rate amid the COVID-19 crisis.

The convergence of the climate and coronavirus crisis will be catastrophic. Now is the time to deploy a green stimulus

The Covid-19 epidemic is ravaging our tattered healthcare system and shredding our economy. In the past month, over 22 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits, compounding the fear that unemployment could breach 32% absent massive public action. This is an unmitigated human disaster, recalling the horrors of the Great Depression. And it gets worse. We’re also facing the climate emergency. Immediate relief is necessary – but not sufficient. To tackle all these crises at once, we need a Green Stimulus that creates jobs and lifts up communities in ways that also slash carbon pollution, increase resiliency, and develop a just, modern economy.

No one can predict when Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump will turn their full attention to economic recovery. But behind the scenes, the planning has already begun. It’s not a question of whether we spend big on stimulus, but what kind of stimulus.

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Largest number of nests of leatherbacks found in two decades as beaches emptied

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Thailand has discovered the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades on beaches bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic, environmentalists say.

From wild boars strolling through the Israeli city of Haifa to deer venturing into London suburbs, lockdowns are drawing wildlife into many emptied areas.

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