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Gautam Adani might be willing to lose a large share of his wealth to show that he can’t be pushed around, or he might want more public money, John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The future for a fractured Europe, Steve Bannon's role in the European Union elections and modern anti-Semitism.

Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle tells US she would be more open to its interests in UN role

Europe’s candidate to run the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which guides policymakers around the world, has promised the US she will “not defend the EU position” in resisting the global spread of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

In a bid for US support, Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle told senior US officials at a meeting in Washington on 15 May that under her leadership the FAO would be more open to American interests and accepting of GMOs and gene editing, according to a US official record of the meeting seen by the Guardian.

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Battery equipment that can make 600 cones an hour being trialled as concerns over diesel pollution rise

The Mr Whippys of Britain have not had the best start to the year. Ice-cream vans have been facing mounting criticism after campaign groups and parents complained they were delivering their vanilla cones and 99s with a topping of diesel fumes.

This weekend, however, they are savouring a double helping of good news: not only have temperatures been soaring, helping to boost custom up and down the country, but an all-new, non-polluting electric ice-cream van may be about to hit the roads.

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Labor looks to hold steady on climate and energy policies as Albanese reappoints Mark Butler to portfolio. Meanwhile, LNP members re-boot their nuclear fantasies.

The post Albanese keeps Butler in climate and energy portfolio, as LNP renews call for nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Helping the critically endangered mammal is vital because it’s the last survivor on its branch of the evolutionary tree

Solenodons are some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Venomous, nocturnal and insectivorous, they secrete toxins through their front teeth – an unusual habit for a mammal. More to the point, the planet’s two remaining species – the Cuban and the Hispaniolan solenodon, both highly endangered – have endured, virtually unchanged, for the past 76 million years. Other related species have become extinct.

And that makes solenodons very important, according to Professor Sam Turvey, of the Zoological Society of London. “They are the last fruits on an entire branch of the tree of evolution,” said Turvey, who was last month awarded one of the most prestigious awards in zoology, the Linnean medal, for his work on evolution and human impacts on wildlife. “There are no close counterparts to solenodons left on Earth, yet they have been on the planet since the time of the dinosaurs.”

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We bulldoze their habitat. And if they survive that, their world is getting hotter. Then there’s pollution and fire. The outlook for amphibians is poor.

About 70 creatures found washed up on coast of North America but federal agency believes it is a small fraction of total fatalities

US government scientists have launched an investigation what has caused the deaths of an unusually high number of gray whales found washed up on the west coast of North America.

About 70 whales have been found dead so far this year on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, the most since 2000. About five more have been discovered on British Columbia beaches.

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With water restrictions now in place across Australia, there are plenty of easy ways to save water – and a few creative solutions

For the first time in a decade, water restrictions come into force in Sydney on Saturday due to dwindling dam levels and the ongoing drought.

On Wednesday, the state government announced that everyone in Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra must stick to the stage one restrictions, including using trigger nozzles, restricted times for watering lawns and gardens, and spot-cleaning hard surfaces only in the case of an emergency.

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Young people across the country to hold day of action on Saturday highlighting lawsuit as youth-driven climate movement grows

Students in Austin, Texas, want you to veg out. Kids in Westport, Connecticut will screen a film. And in rural North Carolina, activists will draw on a toxic spill to commemorate the environmental justice movement.

All of these rallies will be part of an international campaign on Saturday to spotlight environmental issues. Their message: I Am Juliana.

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Environment America is seeking someone for its two-year fellowship program to help the organisation mobilize the support it takes to build more solar and wind power, reduce global warming pollution, keep our beaches, rivers and streams clean, protect our wildlife and wild places, and hold polluters accountable when they violate our environmental laws.

Have we found some of the technologies that can finally help us survey Earth's unknown depths?

Muttonbird Island in NSW is a place of majesty. It's just that the majesty crash lands in the moonlight and sounds like a squeezy toy.

California regulator ARB released a $1.36 million settlement agreement on Thursday with fuel refiner and marketer Tesoro for misreporting six years’ worth of data under the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), including several million gallons of deficit-generating fuel.

The Business Development Manager will have strong commercial acumen and play a pivotal role in Carbonsink’s growth strategy in Europe. They will report directly to the Managing Directors.

European carbon prices plunged to a one-month low on Friday, as bearish energy and supply-side fundamentals weighed heavily.

California regulator ARB does not believe criticism of its cap-and-trade programme's forestry offset protocol raised by a recent policy brief merits any changes to the methodology, because the study included numerous inaccuracies, according to an agency presentation.

The US EPA released its final rule on Friday for allowing year-round sales of 15% ethanol blends and increasing transparency in the biofuel credit (RIN) market under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), but the agency dropped several proposed restrictions on credit trading for the time being.

A frog, an albino panda and a ‘seabed garden’

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