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Tim O’Hara trawled the deep-sea floor and shows his catch to Matt Smith.

Its brain occupies just 1% of its brain case. John Long suggests development of the brain is arrested to allow growth of the rostral organ which is the basis of the animal sensing its food.

As sea level rises, economic impacts are being felt. A carpark in the tourist area of Annapolis floods more now at high tide. Visitor numbers are down. And turnover is drifting lower.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices continued to surge despite transacted volume dipping amid an industry event this week, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) saw little activity after Virginia officials finalised their cap-and-trade emissions.

Cameco did not have to show if WA mine would lead to extinction of tiny fauna before its approval on 10 April

A multinational uranium miner persuaded the federal government to drop a requirement forcing it to show that a mine in outback Western Australia would not make any species extinct before it could go ahead.

Canadian-based Cameco argued in November 2017 the condition proposed by the government for the Yeelirrie uranium mine, in goldfields north of Kalgoorlie, would be too difficult to meet.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices need to quadruple to help support more ambitious carbon reduction policies, a state senator said Friday.

A Canadian government official on Friday revealed more details about Ottawa's development of a federal offset programme under its ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) for large emitters, though a change in government this fall could impact its future roll-out.

Questions raised over $80 million of water buybacks in 2017; The National Farmers Federation has joined forces with the red meat industry to launch advice for primary producers if they encounter trespassers; crop insurance hits a snag.

Professor Peter Waterhouse and the wonder plant Nicotiana benthamiana.

EUAs slumped 5% to fall below €26 on Friday, crashing through technical support as some speculators sold heavily knowing 2018 compliance buying has effectively ended.

Environmental groups are preparing for a fight against the proposal that would end a five-year fracking moratorium in central California

The Trump administration has issued a plan to open more than a million acres in California to fracking, including areas close to Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks.

In its proposal, the government made a case that the effects on a range of delicate issues – from degrading air quality to threats to cultural and Native American resources in the area – could be avoided or minimized on 1,011,470 acres across eight counties. The plan could end a five-year fracking moratorium in California enforced by a federal judge.

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Hungry bears, busy bees and disappearing penguins

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Readers respond to George Monbiot’s piece on doing away with the current economic model and the recent Extinction Rebellion climate protests

George Monbiot (Time to declare the system dead – before it takes us down with it, 25 April) says he has slowly and reluctantly rejected capitalism because the endless impulse for growth and wealth creation ineluctably drives climate change. Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want, in his global justice seminar at the Extinction Rebellion protests, focused more on neoliberalism – the even more rapacious, ever-expanding incarnation of capitalist exploitation of people and planet over the last four decades – as the driver of global climate inequality and impending calamity. But left-of-centre ideologies also focus on growth in the bid to tackle inequality, with social and economic priorities overshadowing ecological imperatives.

This paper has had occasional discussions of the degrowth movement. In one such, Christiane Kliemann (Let’s face it: we have to choose between our economy and our future, 23 January 2015) posited that once we have accepted there are only radical options left, we have a choice between our economy and our future if we are to meet everybody’s needs more sustainably and equitably, using fewer resources. More focus on degrowth on the political left, and more analysis in these pages of its underpinnings and its potential, could contribute to movements for creating a global economy that can truly be described as “ours”, and a future not only for those of us in the global north, but also a present for those in the global south already experiencing the ravages of growth-driven climate change.
Sarah Cemlyn
Bristol

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Finnish utility Fortum emitted 900,000 tonnes of CO2 from its EU ETS-regulated facilities over Q1 2019, down 10% year-on-year despite lower reservoir levels impacting hydropower output, it said in financial results on Friday.

Nine candidates will stand under Climate Emergency Independents banner

Activists who took part in the Extinction Rebellion protests have announced they will stand in the European elections on a “climate emergency” ticket.

Under the name Climate Emergency Independents, nine candidates will stand in the 23 May polls – seven in London and two in south-west England region.

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The oceans contain almost 200,000 different viral populations, according to the latest count.

The EU is considering paying foresters for the CO2 they remove from the atmosphere in an effort to incentivise more emission savings in the sector.

The London race aims to reduce waste with paper cups, fewer drinks and even edible seaweed energy capsules.

The different methods scientists use to measure cosmic expansion fundamentally disagree with each other.

Success of Sweden’s flygskam campaign means rail-only travel agencies are getting a boost

When Greta Thunberg stepped on to the platform at Stockholm Central station on Thursday after completing her European tour to raise awareness of climate change, an unassuming 69-year-old who runs a tiny travel firm was there to greet her.

Ivar Karlsson has found his business in the spotlight as appetite grows for alternatives to flying. It was Karlsson, whose company specialises in rail-only holidays, that Greta and her father contacted to book their trip, which took in stops in Strasbourg, Rome, London before heading back to Sweden.

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