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The European Commission will examine the extension of the EU ETS to other sectors as part of its impact assessment for raising the bloc's 2030 emissions reduction target, a senior EU official said on Tuesday. 

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices swung back from 2018 lows this week as a result of higher demand, though some traders questioned the higher values amid the economic impacts of the COVD-19 pandemic.

Numbers of endangered primate thought to have shrunk by half in the last 36 years

Twin ring-tailed lemurs have been born at a UK zoo.

The endangered primates were born to mother Fiona and father Dog at Chester zoo on 2 March and have just begun to venture outside.

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EUAs climbed above €16 early on Tuesday, rising further from the previous session's 22-month low in line with wider market optimism about a slowdown in new coronavirus cases in some countries and the effect of government stimulus measures.

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, does not expect to operate any flights during April or May, it announced on Tuesday, as the carrier and the aviation sector as a whole struggles to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak.

A female peregrine has been spotted on a balcony nest, but Sally, star of Springwatch, hasn’t been seen

The rollercoaster saga of the Salisbury Cathedral peregrine falcons is continuing this spring, with one bird protecting an egg on a balcony of the great building but another missing in action.

A female that has been visiting the balcony regularly in recent weeks has laid one egg and can be viewed hunkering down on the nest via a cathedral webcam.

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A tiny, 555-million-year-old seafloor creature reveals why our bodies are organised the way they are.

Rightwing governments have denied the problem and been slow to act. With coronavirus and the climate, this costs lives

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The coronavirus pandemic has brought urgency to the defining political question of our age: how to distribute risk. As with the climate crisis, neoliberal capitalism is proving particularly ill-suited to this.

Like global warming, but in close-up and fast-forward, the Covid-19 outbreak shows how lives are lost or saved depending on a government’s propensity to acknowledge risk, act rapidly to contain it, and share the consequences.

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Beijing on Tuesday became the third Chinese region to bring the aviation sector into its local pilot emissions trading scheme, including the capital's massive new Daxing International Airport.

Across wild mammal species, females live over 18% longer than males because of genetics and environment.

Campaigners urge governments to tie any bailouts to aviation and cruise industries to requirements for climate action

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The economic rescue packages to deal with the impact of the coronavirus must also be green, a growing chorus of environmental campaigners have urged, concerned that hasty measures will lock the world into a high-carbon future.

“Governments need to put huge amounts of money into trying to sustain jobs and livelihoods,” said Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights, who served twice as UN climate envoy. “But they must do it with a very strong green emphasis. The threat from climate change is as real as the threat from Covid-19, though it seems far away.”

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Australia should not make it easier for coal-fired power stations to earn carbon credits, even though that may rule out supporting genuine efforts to reduce emissions in some cases, an advisory committee to the government has said.

Descendants of the drug lord’s pets bear similarities to extinct megafauna

When the drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, he left behind a zoo stocked with wild animals alongside his multibillion dollar cocaine empire. The lions, giraffes and other exotic species were moved from the luxurious Hacienda Nápoles estate east of Medellín to new homes, but nearly three decades later, dozens of hippos, descendants of animals left behind, are thriving in small lakes in northern Colombia, making them the world’s largest invasive animal.

Now scientists say that contrary to the conventional wisdom that large invasive herbivore mammals have strictly negative effects on their new environments, Escobar’s “cocaine” hippos show how introduced species can restore a lost world.

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It is one of chilliest spots on the planet. But it’s warming up three times faster than the rest of the world. Alexis Pazoumian captures life in the snow forests of Yakutia

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New Zealand carbon allowances fell another 2.2% on Tuesday, as traders continued to offload volumes ahead of the impending shutdown of the economy while some expressed doubts the government will carry out expected ETS market reforms.

Provisional list of 119 animal species, revised on the basis of improved spatial information and reports from field assessments.

Provisional list of 119 animal species, revised on the basis of improved spatial information and reports from field assessments.

Locals post images of spectacular orange skies, with many describing it as a welcome distraction.

Approval of 200MW solar farm and battery storage project proposed for north-western Victoria delayed after council meeting postponed in response to Covid-19.

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Reports suggest Genex Power is days away from inking an offtake deal for its 250MW Kidston pumped hydro project in northern Queensland.

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