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"Numbers seem to indicate that in India and across the world, the water used in agriculture is at least double, if not three times what is needed," says Dr Ajay Mathur.

In the wake of decades of violence, ex-guerrillas in Colombia are making conservation part of the path to peace. Jaime Gongora, Associate Professor, Animal and Wildlife Genetics and Genomics, University of Sydney Federica Di Palma, Director of Science, Earlham Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

About 450 overseas pests have been introduced to US forests, a climate crisis resource, due to international trade and travel

About 40% of all forests across the US are at risk of being ravaged by an army of harmful pests, undermining a crucial resource in addressing the climate crisis, new research has found.

Tree-damaging pests have already destroyed swathes of US woodland, with the American chestnut virtually wiped out by a fungal disease and elms blighted by Dutch elm disease. About 450 overseas pests that damage or feed on trees have been introduced to US forests due to the growth in international trade and travel.

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A new rule will allow officials for the first time to weigh the economic cost of species protection.

Hamerkop’s aims is to rapidly expand access to climate finance to enable climate change mitigation and adaption actions by supporting NGOs, governmental and international development organisations as well as the private sector.

Australian Council of Recycling warns 4.5m tonnes of waste could end up in domestic landfill without investment

Australia’s recycling industry has said the “nice words” of a government agreement on recycling must be backed up with funding and action to be “transformative” to the sector.

The Australian Council of Recycling welcomed a Council of Australian Governments deal to end recycling exports, but warned the 4.5m tonnes of waste could instead end up in domestic landfill without major public investment in the recyclables industry.

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Under a policy that promised to put a limit on industrial pollution, Anglo American was given the green light to increase annual emissions

An Australian coal mine has nearly doubled its greenhouse gas emissions in two years without penalty under a Coalition climate policy that promised to put a limit on industrial pollution.

Mining company Anglo American was given the green light to increase emissions at its Moranbah North mine, in central Queensland, twice since 2016, according to documents released under freedom of information laws.

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Germany is suspending some of its long-standing forest protection aid cash to Brazil because it doubts Brasilia is still making efforts to preserve its vast forests.

Massachusetts’ first offshore wind farm is facing new delays after the US Department of Interior (DOI) on Friday announced it would undertake additional analysis of the project and other proposed initiatives dotting the Atlantic Coast.

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Yorkshire's moors could be losing their purple colour because of an "infestation" of heather beetles.

Changes to how Endangered Species Act is implemented come as world scientists warn biodiversity crisis will put humanity at risk

The Trump administration is scaling back the US government’s latitude to protect species nearing extinction, as world scientists warn that a biodiversity crisis will soon put humanity at risk.

The changes to how the government implements the Endangered Species Act, lauded by industry, will make it harder to protect the most vulnerable creatures.

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At Indigo, our mission is: harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. We started down this path leveraging microbiology, but we have quickly expanded across the entire agriculture supply chain.

University of London college will also seek to limit single-use plastics

A university has banned the sale of beef in campus food outlets in order to help tackle the climate emergency.

Goldsmiths, University of London, is also attempting to phase out single-use plastics and installing more panels to power its buildings in New Cross, as part of a move to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) jurisdictions have begun work on policy scenarios for a proposed transportation carbon pricing mechanism in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic US region, a regulatory source told Carbon Pulse.

The tech is one of "a number of detection and tracking methods" used at the London site, the firm said.

Germany’s coal phaseout will have little-to-no effect on power prices by 2030, provided renewables grow to account for two-thirds of supply by then, according to new research.

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European carbon tumbled to a one-month low on Monday after a bearish auction result knocked prices below key technical supports.

South Korea’s ETS prices surged 2.4% on Monday to close at fresh record highs, driven by frantic demand from emitters amid limited supply ahead of next month’s compliance deadline.