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A huge wildlife haven is at risk as Russian coal ships exploit melting Arctic ice in Siberia.

The Head of Operations plays a central role in the strategic direction of the organisation, overseeing all aspects of the Foundation’s operations. This exciting role will pick up on the momentum of recent growth in certified projects and service offerings.

EUAs lost ground on Thursday as one of the weakest auction performances of the year helped push prices below €25 for several hours.

A multi-billion-euro funding package for the European Space Agency is agreed by its member states.

The EU Parliament voted to declare a climate emergency on Thursday, but without much of the wording that could pressure the incoming European Commission into more short-term ambition.

The EU ETS will turn bearish for the early part of next year amid Brexit uncertainty and ample fuel-switching, with potential bullish political developments not due until later in 2020, ICIS analysts said on Thursday.

Species counts drive conservation science and policy, yet a major component of biodiversity is excluded from the data: non-native species. Arian Wallach, Lecturer, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney Chelsea Batavia, Postdoctoral research associate, Oregon State University Danielle Celermajer, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney Daniel Ramp, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney Erick Lundgren, PhD Student, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney Esty Yanco, PhD Candidate, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Labour says failure to share document raises doubts about Tories’ promise to halt fracking

The Cabinet Office has defied a court order to release a secret government report on the UK’s fracking industry.

Officials were expected to hand over the report on Monday, days before Britain’s first general election leaders’ debate on the climate crisis, after the information tribunal ruled it was in the public interest to disclose its findings in full.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose following the Q4 auction results as traders viewed utility Pacific Gas & Electric's return as a bullish prospect, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) inched up on thin volume.

Conservationists say climate change threat must be addressed to avoid reef’s inclusion on ‘in-danger’ list

Conservationists say an official government report to the UN’s world heritage committee to be released next week must show Australia has fresh plans to attack the Great Barrier Reef’s two key threats – climate change and water quality.

At a forum earlier this month environment ministers signed-off on the “state of conservation” report for the reef,which was then sent to Unesco’s world heritage committee.

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‘They survived all this, they deserve a nice old age,’ says head of rescue team

A comfortable retirement to an all-you-can-eat grassy field seems the least that the 250 surviving sheep from the Queen Hind disaster in the Black Sea deserve. But there is still some debate over their fate, according to animal campaign groups working in Romania.

More than 14,600 sheep were on the ship, heading to Saudi Arabia on a busy animal export route, when it overturned coming out of the harbour on Sunday afternoon. All of the crew got away safely, but most of the animals are now believed to be dead.

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Burning of the rainforest appears to speed up the melting of tropical glaciers, scientists find.

Scientists say the specimen could represent an evolutionary link between wolves and modern dogs.

The climate crisis is affecting people and wildlife across the UK, and WWF is urging political parties to respond

The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. More than 1,000 British species are at risk of extinction. Polls have repeatedly shown that while the British public may be divided on Brexit, we are united by our love of nature and concern about climate. The charity WWF is urging UK political parties to respond to the nature and climate crisis by committing to bold policies and investment to make the UK the first major economy to halt its contribution to climate change, put nature on a path to recovery and stop deforestation in food supply chains. It says the UK must pioneer an economic and financial system that works for people and planet and drive global ambition to respond to the climate emergency.

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Staff at Mossgiel farm hope to promote a more sustainable model of dairy farming, including delivering milk in reusable glass bottles

Lying in a field of grass among his herd of dairy cows, Ayrshire farmer Bryce Cunningham picks up and pretends to throw away a plastic carton of milk. This is what we want to get rid of on our farm, he says in a promotional video, as he explains his quest to become the UK’s first single-use plastic-free milk producer.

After raising more than £10,000 from a crowdfunding campaign, he’s managed to replace single-use plastic cartons with 32,000 glass bottles adorned with the face of Robert Burns – who’s said to have once worked on the farmland – which he is able to wash and reuse.

There are, of course, other farms selling milk in glass bottles, but Bryce is now also eliminating single-use plastics from feed, chemicals and other inputs bought onto the farm, as well as finding alternatives to plastic silage wraps used to store fodder for feeding the cows over the winter.

As well as buying glass bottles, he refurbished a milk bottling machine dating back to the 1960s from a local dairy farm that had been left unused after the owner had left dairying.

The milk from Bryce’s 55-cow herd, along with milk from two other organic farms that supply him, goes out to around 8–10,000 people in glass bottles across Scotland.

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Jeremy Corbyn announced plans to create 10 national parks under a Labour government and plant 2bn trees by 2040 to help tackle the climate crisis. 

Speaking in Southampton to a crowd that included climate strikers, the party leader said: ‘We are living in the jaws of a climate and environment emergency. We cannot afford more wasted years of Conservative inaction from a government bought and paid for by the big polluters and the billionaires'

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Dams have fuelled decline in fish populations, says chief executive of RiverWatch

Europe’s last free-flowing rivers could be fatally disrupted if a new generation of hydroelectric dams are built, experts have warned.

More than a quarter (28%) of new hydropower plants are to be constructed in nature reserves, with many planned in the Balkans, home to some of Europe’s last free-flowing rivers.

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New Zealand carbon allowances on Thursday fell to their lowest levels since late August as many buyers scale down activity due to the NZ$25 fixed price option remaining in place for 2019 compliance.