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Scientists researching how coastal wetlands can help in the fight against climate change have taken out one of our biggest science awards.

The successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope reaches a key milestone in its construction.

In coming weeks, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority will release its emergency response plan for this year's predicted long, hot summer that will hit already stressed rivers in the basin.

California regulator ARB granted under half a million California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) across three protocols this week and reduced the invalidation period on an additional 447,000 offsets, state data showed.

Crowds in New York await Sweden’s teenage environmental campaigner, who will set foot on dry land after her zero-carbon journey by yacht

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Water, water everywhere around New York City, where we are waiting for Greta Thunberg’s arrival breathlessly (literally, actually, as the wind has dropped, my colleague downtown tells me, which will affect her ability to enter the marina in lower Manhattan under sail).

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When Greta Thunberg was setting sail from Plymouth (in England, not New England) on August 14, my colleague on the spot that day, the Guardian’s global environment editor Jonathan Watts, reported that the activist didn’t intend to talk to with US president Donald Trump, even were the opportunity to present itself.

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The discovery of an ancient skull in Ethiopia underlines the complexity in the evolution of humans.

Long-tailed blues and eggs seen in large numbers but are unlikely to survive the winter

A fast-flying migratory butterfly from the Mediterranean is appearing in large numbers across southern England this summer as a result of global heating, experts say.

More than 50 long-tailed blues and hundreds of the butterfly’s eggs have been discovered in recent weeks, which is likely to result in an unprecedented emergence of the butterfly in Britain later this autumn.

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The 16-year-old campaigner arrives in the US after sailing for two weeks across the Atlantic.

In the fractious climate debate, criticism of young activists has sometimes spiralled into abuse.

XR says 750 people will occupy Deansgate in protest at city’s climate crisis contradictions

Hundreds of climate protesters plan to occupy one of Manchester’s busiest streets for four days this weekend to expose the “huge contradictions” of a city region that has declared a climate emergency while planning to massively expand its airport.

The Extinction Rebellion group says that from 10am on Friday at least 750 people have pledged to take over part of Deansgate, a popular area for shopping and entertainment that has illegal levels of air pollution.

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The Model 3 is certainly something different, and could change the minds of EV-doubters, and mark a shift in the lagging EV market in Australia.

The post Test Drive: Tesla Model 3 not just a game-changer, it’s a mind-changer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fossil fuel burning is the big issue but continued forest cover loss will make climate targets harder to achieve, say scientists.

EUAs made gains in early Wednesday trade as a recovery in oil prices boosted the energy complex and potentially could pull carbon out of its weak technical hole.

The plea from the governors comes after a spat between President Bolsonaro and the French president.

The Western Australian government on Wednesday set out a draft carbon emission policy for major resource projects based on an aspirational state target to hit net zero emissions by 2050, with the option to buy domestic or international offsets remaining on the table.

Swedish climate activist nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht

Greta Thunberg is likely to arrive in New York soon after crossing the Atlantic in a zero-carbon yacht.

“Land!! The lights of Long Island and New York City ahead,” the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist tweeted on Wednesday.

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The Californian rocket company demonstrates its new methane-burning engine in Texas.

Nexif, Infigen agree to lease S.A. government's back up diesel generators, convert them to gas and pair with their wind farms and battery storage units.

The post Infigen, Nexif lease S.A. back-up generators to pair with wind farms and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Agriculture minister hopes ‘Noah’s ark’ plan will prevent severe fish kills, but critics accuse Nationals of tending to ‘self-inflicted wound’

The New South Wales government says it is planning a $10m “Noah’s ark”-style plan to stave off a “potential fish Armageddon” facing the state this summer, but critics say the Coalition is sticking a Band-Aid on a gaping self-inflicted wound.

The Berejiklian government’s plan aims to combine better research and increased breeding with fish rescue operations to save some of the state’s native fish from a forecast ecological disaster as the drought drags on.

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At best, nuking a hurricane will do nothing, and at worst it will spread radioactive fallout around the world. Liz Ritchie-Tyo, Associate Professor, School of Physical, Environmental, and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.