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The world's biggest steelmaker ArcelorMittal announced plans on Friday to cut emissions from part of its EU output by 30% under 2018 levels by 2030, ahead of a planned global goal due next year.

Birds sing at a mining camp, cicadas grind the gears of locals and mysterious sounds are identified. Listen to the sounds of Australia as recorded by the Off Track audience.

European carbon soared to a five-week high near €26 early Monday, bolstered by news of a supply cut plus the Conservatives’ big win in the UK general election, which is expected to result in long-awaited clarity on Brexit, but prices recoiled deep into the red amid mounting bearish pressures.

Test data indicates a land speed record should be achievable, says the project's chief engineer.

The duelling animals were found floating in the waters off Quatsino, British Columbia.

Green party improves on 2017 vote and campaigners say weight of responsibility now rests on Tories

The new Conservative government must urgently bring forward plans to fulfil its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 or risk losing the fight against climate breakdown, green campaigners have urged.

Rebecca Newsom, the head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said the Tory manifesto was “full of holes” on the environment and had been judged inadequate by green groups, and people would expect swift action.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

South Korean negotiators play a far more active role than usual at this year’s UN climate negotiations in Madrid, hoping to push through rules that would allow Korean ETS firms to buy up to 55-60 million international carbon credits annually throughout the 2020s in a bid to avoid runaway domestic CO2 prices.

New Article 6 text dropped well behind schedule at the UN climate summit on Friday, with numerous contentious issues still remaining on agreeing the rulebook to international emissions trading under the Paris Agreement.

Former first lady told climate activist ‘don’t let anyone dim your light’ after Trump said teen had an ‘anger management problem’

Michelle Obama has sent a public message of support to the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg after the teenager was mocked by Donald Trump.

“@GretaThunberg, Don’t let anyone dim your light,” the former first lady wrote following a visit to Vietnam. “Like the girls I’ve met in Vietnam and all over the world, you have so much to offer us all. Ignore the doubters and know that millions of people are cheering you on.”

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Volunteers find nests made by descendants of creatures released by student in 2004

As an idealistic PhD student, Wendy Fail’s ambition was to reintroduce harvest mice to Northumberland. She painstakingly bred 240 mice in captivity and in 2004 released the elusive mammals on to a coastal nature reserve with plenty of reedbeds for them to hide in.

When not a single harvest mouse – Britain’s smallest rodent – was recaptured in subsequent trap surveys, Fail concluded that her efforts to reintroduce them had been unsuccessful.

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Poland opts out of 2050 net-zero emissions after hours of wrangling over timetables and money

European Union leaders have vowed to press on with a major economic plan to confront the climate emergency, despite Poland’s opt-out from a net-zero emissions target by 2050.

The Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, told journalists he had secured an exemption for Poland on the 2050 target, which is meant to become the legally binding centrepiece of the “European Green Deal” , a plan to transform Europe’s economy announced two days ago.

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It captured the world’s imagination when it appeared in the middle of the ocean – but where did it come from, and where is it going?

It floated into the collective consciousness in August, twice the size of Manhattan and probably powerful enough to exfoliate the feet of the entire world. The giant Pacific Ocean pumice raft was as mysterious as it was vast.

The world only knew of its existence thanks to Michael Hoult and Larissa Brill, two Australians who sailed into it while travelling by catamaran to Fiji. Photographs they took showed a mass of grey stretching as far as the eye could see.

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Ilene Dondlinger of California says she does not want the big cat killed, despite its fatal attack on her miniature schnauzer

When Ilene Dondlinger jumped on the mountain lion attacking her miniature schnauzer in the early hours of 5 December, she reacted without thinking. The 54-year-old wrestled with the big cat in her backyard, desperately trying to open its jaws to save her beloved dog Pumba. But there was nothing she could do.

“I couldn’t prise its jaws open, no matter what I did,” Dondlinger said, detailing how she punched, kicked and jumped on the big cat, even putting her knee to its throat in desperation.

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We don't need to send in the army every time there's a natural disaster, or create a national fire fighting force. We need to think practically about working together in emergencies. Andrew Gissing, General Manager, Risk Frontiers, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University Michael Eburn, Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Angus Taylor bids Madrid adios, leaving diplomats to fight for Australia's Kyoto accounting dodge, and as PM Morrison tells more untruths.

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Scott Morrison has thrown a bone to the conservative culture warriors pushing nuclear power, and now they'll be demanding a rump steak with tomato sauce.

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Nuclear inquiry report calls on Australians to say "definite yes" to nuclear energy for Australia, despite the new SMR technology's enormous expense and as-yet unproven status.

The post Coalition pushes for nuclear ban to be lifted, Labor says it’s madness appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EVs are an obvious solution for Australia’s precarious fuel security and its dependence on fuel imports. Former RAAF deputy chief John Blackburn explains why.

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