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Potent chemicals are unwittingly passed down from mother to calf, according to a UK study.

As the UN has its annual climate change conference, we look at what it's for and if it ever makes a difference.

More than 370 species were gathered during a six-year mission to widen the gene pool and ensure future food security

The seeds of more than 370 wild crop species have been collected as part of a six-year Indiana Jones-style mission to widen the gene pool of staple crops and ensure future global food security in increasingly unpredictable growing conditions.

A hundred scientists from 25 countries travelled by horse, canoe and even elephant to reach remote corners of the world in search of wild species of common agricultural crops such as rice, barley, beans and potatoes that billions of people rely on for basic nutrition.

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This year's UN climate summit hosts declined to reference Article 6 as COP25 got under way on Monday, instead launching a push on governmental ambition that observers say could give them cover should carbon trade talks flounder.

Enel Green Power blames "technical problems" for delays at Australia's largest solar project which is yet to reach full production.

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The Clean Energy Regulator has denied an application from Amazon to keep its greenhouse gas emissions secret, with the data now publicly available.

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California’s 2020 cap-and-trade auction floor price will be set at $16.68, as the total auction supply in the linked WCI market will dip by 14% due to true-up allocations, state regulator confirmed Monday.

Technological advances are now making it easier and cheaper for communities to build green microgrids using renewable energy.

People will be wondering why there’s so much it wants to hide about fracking – Greenpeace

The government has heavily redacted a secret report into the fracking industry after it was forced to comply with a court order for its release.

A Whitehall report on the UK shale gas sector emerged on Monday after a years-long battle to uncover the hidden documents – but with more than half of its pages blacked out. The 48-page report, seen by the Guardian, includes 37 pages that are entirely blacked out and only one – the front cover – that was left uncensored.

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Nancy Pelosi tells UN conference in Madrid that commitment is ‘iron-clad’

The US will take action on greenhouse gases and engage with other countries on the climate emergency despite Donald Trump’s rejection of international cooperation, a delegation from the US Congress has told the UN climate conference in Madrid.

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, struck a defiant stance on Monday, declaring: “Congress’s commitment to action on the climate crisis is iron-clad. This is a matter of public health, of clean air, of clean water, of our children, of the survival of our economies, of the prosperity of the world, of national security, justice and equality. We now must deliver deeper cuts in emissions.”

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Recent bushfires and extreme weather are just a small taste of what is to come if this week's climate negotiations in Madrid fail to deliver. Robert Hales, Director Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Malagasy tree boa is under threat from poaching and fires.

China plans to merge major power companies and shut down outdated coal power capacity over two years, documents published over the weekend showed, a move experts say would cut emissions but increase the likelihood of overallocation when the government launches its ETS next year.

EU carbon prices fell on Monday, sinking on a mix of technical and fundamental factors.

Melanie Harwood is an education entrepreneur and self-styled 'disruptor', who has partnered with the United Nations to educate teachers about climate change. The Guardian's Richard Sprenger joined her on a trip to Dubai, to witness her unorthodox approach first hand

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The tiger has traversed 1,300km in five months, the furthest a big cat is known to have walked in India.

In Hungary and elsewhere, activists are demanding climate action but politicians say biggest threat comes from migration

The crowd that gathered outside Hungary’s neo-gothic parliament building on Friday was loud, young and passionate. The latest round of global school climate strikes drew several thousand people in Budapest, including the city’s newly elected liberal mayor. They sang, chanted and shouted demands to the country’s politicians to take the climate emergency seriously.

But there was little sign that inside parliament, dominated by the Fidesz party of the far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, the politicians were listening. It was an illustration of a key new political divide in Europe, between rightwing forces who preach that the greatest danger to life as we know it is migration, and those who say instead that the biggest threat comes from the climate emergency.

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The notion that thinning ice shelves enable glacier speed-up and mass loss is cemented.

Increasing natural disasters in Australia and abroad are the signs of the climate crisis, and the UN warns more will come if immediate action isn't taken.

Almost 200 countries are meeting in Madrid to discuss what they're doing to tackle climate change.