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The number of lies trotted out by "moderate" Liberal Jason Falinski on Q&A on Monday shows the depth of denial in the Coalition on climate and technology.

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Study finds greenhouse gases helped drive the scorching conditions in November 2018 that sparked destructive bushfires

Extreme temperatures that helped drive historic 2018 bushfires in north Queensland were four times more likely to have happened because of human-caused climate change, according to a study to be published next month.

Scorching conditions in November 2018 sparked Queensland’s biggest ever firefighting response as 1,250 fires torched 1.4 million hectares, destroying nine homes and causing widespread impacts across multiple farming industries.

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Angus Taylor asks ARENA to develop a national bioenergy roadmap as government looks for ways to sure-up liquid fuel supplies. Still no sign of EV strategy.

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Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility extends $610m loan funding offer for Genex's Kidston solar, wind and pumped hydro project, after a vital off-take deal fell through.

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Australia’s growing fleet of grid-scale batteries achieved record revenues in the September quarter, driven by the expanding frequency and ancillary markets, increased arbitrage and the lowest cost of charging as spot prices fell regularly into negative territory. The assessment by the Australian Energy Market Operator, in its latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report, shows that total...

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Ranniel dives into one of Manila's most polluted rivers for less than two dollars a day.

IEA says deep disparity between words and action on climate change risks failing to cap global temperatures

The world’s existing climate policies will not be enough to end the upward march of record energy emissions rising beyond 2040 without a “grand coalition” of governments and investors, according to the global energy watchdog.

The International Energy Agency said carbon emissions from the global energy industry reached a new record in 2018 despite progress in renewable energy in recent years.

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Thunberg: ‘My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – to unite behind the science and to act on the science’

• If world leaders fail us, my generation will never forgive them

As Greta Thunberg departs the US to sail across the Atlantic for the second time in a few months, she is leaving behind a simple message for those who care about the climate crisis: you must vote.

Related: Giant Greta Thunberg mural to watch over San Francisco's downtown

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Oregon politicians are debating the postponement of compliance obligations for the state's fuel sector for five years under a future WCI-aligned ETS, but it remains to be seen whether that option has support among Democrats, regulatory sources told Carbon Pulse.

Germany will next year begin the process of phasing out its hard coal-fired power plants, according to draft legislation, with a decision on cancelling a corresponding number of EUAs appearing to be postponed until at least 2022.

The Earth has experienced five periods of mass extinction. Scientists can't quite be certain yet, but they're fairly sure we're now well into the sixth. Frédérik Saltré, Research Fellow in Ecology, Flinders University Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Discussions about climate change often skirt around the issue of population growth, but it is the main driver of rising carbon dioxide levels and many other environmental changes on a planetary scale. Michael Petterson, Professor of Geology, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Canada's federal and provincial compliance offset markets have received a boost from the re-election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta's proposed new emission mechanism, but industry stakeholders believe several outstanding issues must be resolved before investments can take off.

Why has the huge amount of rainfall that hit South Yorkshire had such a large impact on people and property?

Dave Morris on the collective power of research and Alastair Leake on the decline in moth populations

The efforts of campaigners to highlight important issues can often be overlooked by a historical approach that focuses on individuals, often academics or politicians. An example is in the obituary of the biologist Victoria Braithwaite (Obituary, 9 November), which asserts that “until the early 2000s everyone knew that fish do not feel pain”. But almost 20 years earlier, we had produced and started to widely distribute a leaflet called Fish Feel Pain. And of course hundreds of thousands of people were already refusing to eat fish on those very grounds.

In that same era, our group and others were campaigning on a range of other matters – such as traffic pollution, junk food, the arms trade, non-renewable energy, single-use plastics, environmental destruction – which may have seemed marginal at the time but are now acknowledged as mainstream concerns.

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Utilities CEZ and Uniper advanced their hedging considerably over the third quarter, but the amount of EUA buying is likely to have been lower in absolute terms amid coal generation declines.

Big floods likely to become more frequent because of climate breakdown

Poor management of the rural landscape along with global heating and building on floodplains are the main factors that led to the floods that have engulfed towns in northern England, according to experts.

Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster are among the places flooded, 12 years after they were badly hit when the River Don burst its banks in 2007. Many affected areas, including Meadowhall shopping centre, where customers were stranded overnight, lie within the river’s floodplain – low-lying land next to the river that naturally floods during high flow.

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PM to chair Cobra meeting after being criticised for not declaring national emergency

Boris Johnson has been accused of displaying an “utterly outrageous” lack of concern about the severe floods that have devastated hundreds of homes and caused more than 1,200 properties to be evacuated in northern England.

The prime minister will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee Cobra on Tuesday after he was criticised by Jeremy Corbyn for not declaring a national emergency.

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EUA prices sank below €25 to the bottom of their recent range early on Tuesday, reversing an early spike linked to a major nuclear outage from France's EDF.