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Rottnest wind turbine stands alone but it’s influence goes far beyond Perth’s holiday playground. It turned Tony Abbott against wind energy. We find out why.

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A citizen science project is being rolled out across Australia to track marine creatures that may be moving into new territory due to climate change or loss of habitat.

In an open letter released today, institutional investors are urging governments to face climate change head-on and calling for tougher targets.

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Language inserted into Oregon’s WCI-modelled cap-and-trade proposal could make it difficult for in-state forestry offset projects to get off the ground, numerous developers told Carbon Pulse.

DNC has declined to hold a climate-specific debate even as Democratic voters rank rising temperatures as a top priority

Dozens of young climate protesters crowded outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC on Tuesday, demanding a debate focused on the crisis as presidential candidates prepare to face off this week over two nights in Florida.

The DNC has declined to hold a climate-specific debate, even as Democratic voters rank rising temperatures – and the worse disasters and economic instability they bring – as a top priority.

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Astronaut David Saint-Jacques spent 204 days in space alongside crew mates from Russian and the US.

Oregon Democrats do not have the votes to pass the cap-and-trade bill at the center of a Republican walkout, the Senate President said Tuesday.

The UN produced a new draft text on rules covering international emissions trade on Tuesday, after governments broke a deadlock that some observers said raises the prospects for a deal later this year on the Paris Agreement’s divisive Article 6.

Chris Butler-Stroud and Michael Mountain on recent developments in the campaign against cruelty to whales and dolphins

June has been a good month for those of us who have long campaigned against whales and dolphins being held captive in small tanks for human entertainment (Two whales flown from Shanghai aquarium to sanctuary in Iceland, theguardian.com, 20 June). Canada has passed legislation making it an “offence to keep captive, breed, import, or export any whale, dolphin, or porpoise”. Russia has said it will close the loophole used by traffickers capturing cetaceans for “educational and cultural purposes”. President Putin has bowed to pressure to shut the “whale jail” in Russia’s far east and release 10 orcas and more than 80 beluga whales back to the wild.

And in the past week, the Sea Life Trust, working with Whale and Dolphin Conservation, has transported two beluga whales from Shanghai to a sanctuary in Iceland – a world-first project that provides a model for ending this cruel industry. With over 3,000 whales and dolphins still in intolerable conditions there is much work to do. But events this month give us hope.
Chris Butler-Stroud
Chief executive, Whale and Dolphin Conservation

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Biffa Waste Services found guilty of exporting unsorted waste to China it said was paper

One of the UK’s biggest waste firms has been convicted of sending used nappies and other contaminated materials to China illegally.

Biffa Waste Services Ltd was found guilty of exporting unsorted household waste that it said was paper. The company was prosecuted by the Environment Agency after investigators stopped seven 25-tonne containers from leaving Felixstowe over suspicions about the content.

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Results suggest environmental factors could play a role in female reproductive health

Air pollution has been linked to a drop in activity of a woman’s ovaries, researchers have revealed.

Experts say the findings suggest the female reproductive system is affected by environmental factors, although the study does not look specifically at the impact of air pollution on fertility.

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Film taken by the charity Animal Equality earlier this year shows the quality of life endured by birds on three farms of one of the UK’s biggest chicken producers. The farms, in Lincolnshire, were holding birds in cramped conditions, with birds found to be lame, struggling to breathe and surrounded by carcasses

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Secret filming at three Moy Park farms in Lincolnshire shows birds that are lame, struggling to breathe and surrounded by carcasses

One of the UK’s biggest chicken producers has been keeping chickens in cramped conditions on three farms in Lincolnshire, including in enormous “double-decker” multi-storey buildings, where secretly filmed footage shows chickens that are lame, struggling to breathe and surrounded by dead birds.

From across their sites in Northern Ireland and England, Moy Park supplies 30% of the British poultry market, including Tesco, Ocado and Sainsbury’s. The supermarkets have told the Guardian they they are now investigating their supply chains after the footage was sent to them.

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CEFC to tip $100m into joint venture with Ironstone Capital to encourage institutional investors, such as superannuation funds, into the clean energy market.

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Engineers succeed in automating science experiments at the UK's Halley research station.

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Five zoo-born eastern black rhinos have been transported from Europe to Africa.

The miniaturised timepiece will be used to overhaul deep-space navigation if it proves its worth.

Tuesday's EU Common Auction Platform (CAP) auction was cancelled because the clearing price was significantly below the secondary market, sale host EEX said.