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Actress Jane Fonda was arrested alongside fellow actor Ted Danson at a climate protest.

Over the past decade more than 12,000 valuable artefacts have been found.

Whatever the result, the communities on SA’s Eyre peninsula are split over the issue – and will be for some time

After four years of speculation and three years of consultation, the small towns of Kimba and Hawker in South Australia have begun the final stage of a process that has divided neighbours and placed these otherwise forgotten communities on the national map.

On 7 November, the Kimba district council will announce the result of a month-long vote on whether its residents support the construction of a nuclear waste facility at one of two proposed sites. On 11 November a similar vote will open for the Flinders Ranges council over a third proposed site at Wallerberdina.

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Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice

Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of lives this century. The claim is made in a new investigation of the controversy surrounding the development of Golden Rice by a team of international scientists.

Golden Rice is a form of normal white rice that has been genetically modified to provide vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in the developing world. It was developed two decades ago but is still struggling to gain approval in most nations.

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Concerns have been raised over how a government established watchdog will enforce new green targets.

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Dean of Science Emma Johnston laments at the unsustainable nature of the world we’ve created.

This week we take a lesson from school of the air, and ask how much would you pay for rain?

Scientists at Natural History Museum honour teenager’s ‘outstanding contribution’

A tiny species of beetle discovered more than 50 years ago has been named after environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London have officially called the insect Nelloptodes gretae to honour the 16-year-old Swedish activist’s “outstanding contribution” in raising global awareness of climate change.

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California’s cap-and-trade programme would experience minimal impacts if the US Department of Justice (DOJ) prevailed in its challenge of the state's WCI linkage with Quebec, lawyers told Carbon Pulse.

Agriculture in the firing line of Senate Estimates, Government receives advice on drought policy, Investigations follow release of northern Basin flow report and Kimberley town breaks a world record.

European carbon drifted lower on Friday to end the week with a 3.5% loss, amid a continuation of sliding energy prices, weak EUA auction demand, and Brexit uncertainty.

It's only as big as a tea bag, plays dead if you pick it up, and landowners don't even know they have an endangered animal in their backyard.

Russian scientists tracking eagles got huge SMS bills when some birds flew to Iran and Pakistan.

Oregon lawmakers will not alter their plans to pass a WCI-modelled carbon market bill next year in light of this week's US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit against California’s cap-and-trade linkage with Quebec, but the state could forego linking with the Canadian province as the legal challenge shakes out.

The supersonic car completes a gentle run across the Hakskeen lakebed in South Africa.

Cuddling foxes, venomous sea snakes and a 1,000-year-old oak tree

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Officials in Worcester say the city is overrun with gulls, and that the only solution is a sanctioned shoot. But experts suggest there could be better answers

‘Seagulls kill dog then return to attack toddler two weeks later.” “‘Psycho’ seagull ‘pecked and clawed’ at student.” “British seagulls are turning cannibal and EATING each other.” If the newspaper headlines are anything to go by, gulls are a growing threat to the British population. No longer satisfied with stealing chips from tourists at seaside towns, the birds are attacking everyone from unsuspecting holidaymakers to small children. And who could forget the grizzly tale of Gizmo the chihuahua, cruelly snatched away by a gull in Devon never to be seen again – that is, until a furry leg turned up a few weeks later. It is no wonder public opinion has turned against them.

The situation has turned so sour in Worcester that the city council is now proposing a gull cull. The council is considering applying for a licence to shoot the birds, with one councillor saying it is the only way to stop residents from “needlessly suffering”.

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) refilled its coffers on Friday as a group of mostly wealthy nations upped their pledges to keep the UN’s flagship climate finance vehicle afloat, despite the US refusing to pay up. 

The trading arm of French utility Engie has lost its main carbon analyst, Carbon Pulse has learned.