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Scientists discover the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption by humans.

Union umbrella body gives its backing to next global action taking place on 20 September

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on members to support student climate strikers during the next global action on 20 September.

The original proposal by the University and College Union (UCU) asked the TUC to call for millions of workers to stop work for half an hour, aimed at shifting government complacency over the climate crisis.

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We would like to hear from people taking part in the Global Climate Strike in the UK on 20 September

Millions of young people around the globe are expected to protest on 20 September in a bid to ask politicians take more action on the climate crisis. Climate strikes will take place in every continent, with the movement’s inspiration, environmental activist Greta Thunberg attending the rally in New York City.

In the UK, dozens of protests are set to take place in cities including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Leeds.

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Scientists reconstruct the seconds, minutes and hours following the dino-killing asteroid impact.

European carbon prices surged on Tuesday along with wider energy prices on news that some of France’s nuclear fleet risks closure due to substandard components.

Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appointed Frans Timmermans as one of three deputies and tasked the former Dutch foreign minister to deliver on her “European Green Deal” while overseeing commissioners for agriculture, health, transport, energy, cohesion and reforms, and environment and oceans.

Environmental activists demonstrate outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site

Extinction Rebellion has blocked the entrance to the UK’s only active fracking site in a demonstration against what it called the “burgeoning catastrophe” of global warming.

Protesters from the environmental group gathered outside the shale gas site on Preston New Road, near Blackpool, on Tuesday morning alongside a yellow boat bearing the words: “Planet before profit”.

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On their own communities in the Pacific can’t protect their ocean from overfishing, pollution and coastal erosion. It’s a global problem and doesn’t only affect the environment on a big scale, but also the economy.

South Korean carbon allowances fell back slightly on Tuesday after starting the week at record highs, but demand remains strong as the clock ticks towards the annual compliance deadline at the end of the month.

As bushfires continue to rage across Queensland and New South Wales, a new survey has found 81 per cent of Australians are worried climate change is worsening natural disasters.

As bushfires continue to rage across Queensland and New South Wales, a new survey has found 81% of Australians are worried climate change is worsening natural disasters.

Jackie Tradd spoke to RN Drive after touring evacuation centres around Noosa.

Farm union unveils plan to slash emissions and combat CO2 - but critics ask why no mention of meat?

Study finds breakdown in annual spawning synchrony in Red Sea, threatening some species with extinction

It has been described by scientists as “the greatest orgy in the world”; an annual gamete-fest, where entire colonies of coral reefs release their sperm and eggs simultaneously in a slick on the ocean surface that has been seen from space. But now scientists fear the climate crisis may be disrupting the ability of corals to synchronise this marine phenomenon, threatening them with extinction.

A Tel Aviv university study, published in Science, has found the release of eggs and sperm in certain reef-building corals in the Gulf of Eilat in the Red Sea have changed over time and have lost their synchronicity. For a coral, reliant on a chance encounter, timing is everything. But researchers have found some are spawning “out of tune” with normal patterns, with the result that fewer baby corals are forming.

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Climate change makes every risk factor for major bushfires worse, which means massive, intense fires will only become more likely. Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

More than a million tons of contaminated water lies in storage but power company says it will run out of space by 2022

Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant directly into the Pacific ocean, Japan’s environment minister said on Tuesday.

After the plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, Tokyo Electric, or Tepco, collected more than 1m tons of contaminated water from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting. The utility says it will run out of tank space by 2022.

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Queensland's negative prices, and the failure to switch on the country's biggest "battery", brings back memories of a very fat man in a restaurant in Monty Python's Meaning of Life.

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Victoria’s Gippsland region earmarked for massive $1.2 billion “renewable energy park,” that would combine up to 550MW of solar and 550MWh of battery storage.

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NFU says growing fuel for power stations and capturing CO2 can slash emissions

Farming can become climate neutral by 2040 without cutting beef production or converting substantial areas of farmland into forest, according to a plan published by the National Farmers’ Union.

Instead, the NFU says three-quarters of the UK’s agricultural emissions can be offset by growing fuel for power stations and then capturing and burying the carbon dioxide, which could lead to energy plants becoming the nation’s biggest crop after wheat. Increasing the carbon stored in soils and using technology to reduce the emissions caused by cattle and fertiliser use are also needed, the NFU says.

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Australian thermal energy storage company reaches in principle agreements to pilot thermal batteries in telecommunication and eco-housing industries.

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