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The Four Corners report on corporations being handed public money to expand their water holdings has sparked calls for a full audit of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

New Zealand has one of the world's largest ocean territories, but the marine environment is at risk from climate change, pollution and fishing. Rebecca Jarvis, Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology Tim Young, Marine Scientist, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian houses are not designed and built for the realities of climate change Anir Kumar Upadhyay, Lecturer in Built Environment, UNSW Chris Lockhart Smith, Director - ecodweller, UNSW Krishna Munsami, PhD student, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Commission confirmed Wednesday that it wants to monetise hundreds of millions of Innovation Fund EUAs in equal annual volumes, a move that analysts said will mean the sales are less likely to affect allowance prices.

Roughly 1.8 million V17 Quebec allowances remain in WCI auction accounts after the second quarter despite proclamations by the province that those credits were retired last month, according to Carbon Pulse calculations.

EU finance ministers on Tuesday kept on the table the option of earmarking a fifth of ETS auction revenues for the post-Brexit 2021-2027 central EU budget, and discussed a bloc-wide aviation carbon tax as France pushed ahead with its own plans.

The naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says that climate change will make parts of Africa uninhabitable.

Recycling reverse vending machines will soon be a common sight across Scotland.

Satellite pictures shows how the 7.1 magnitude earthquake changed the landscape.

Researchers adapt a solar panel so that it can produce drinking water from the sea as well as green electricity.

The northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme will auction off more than 13.1 million carbon allowances at its Sep. 4 auction, the regulator announced Tuesday.

AEMO puts case for accelerated transmission investment, and outlines how storage may evolve as coal plants exit and the grid becomes dominated by renewables.

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Snowball went viral in 2008, but now scientists say he can teach us about dance and social behaviour.

The naturalist David Attenborough appears before a parliament select committee to discuss environmental policy with MPs. He says the government’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions for the UK by 2050 is not necessarily the best approach. ‘The question is: what is practically possible? How can we take the electorate with us in dealing with these things?’ he says

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EUAs climbed towards €27 early on Tuesday, hitting a five-day high on strong demand in the day’s auction.

New Brunswick is abandoning its plan to sue the Canadian government over the federal backstop carbon tax, the province’s premier announced late Monday, adding that his administration would still intervene in Saskatchewan’s Supreme Court appeal.

Judge says there was no evidence that decision not to re-test for bovine TB was unlawful

An alpaca farmer has lost a high court battle to prevent one of her prized animals from being killed.

Helen Macdonald took legal action against the government in a last-ditch attempt to save her stud alpaca, Geronimo, who was earmarked for slaughter after twice testing positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB).

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Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has told the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee that "to chuck plastic into the ocean is an insult".

Billions of leaves in the Amazon rainforest take in CO2 – a gas that contributes to global warming.

What is the way forward for managing the mighty river system that flows through four states?