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Nissan Leaf passes 400,000 mark for global, cumulative sales
Nissan's Leaf becomes world's first EV to notch up cumulative sales of 400,000. But who will hit 500,000 first?
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CP Daily: Tuesday March 12, 2019
Chile seen allowing unlimited offsets for expanded CO2 tax, may add RECs
Pennsylvania nuclear subsidy plan draws pushback from utilities, greens
Luxembourg court confirms EU ruling that state can reclaim ArcelorMittal’s unused EUAs
US EPA proposes restrictions on biofuels credit trading under RFS
'Almost certain extinction': 1,200 species under severe threat across world
Scientists map out threats faced by thousands of species of birds, mammals and amphibians
More than 1,200 species globally face threats to their survival in more than 90% of their habitat and “will almost certainly face extinction” without conservation intervention, according to new research.
Scientists working with Australia’s University of Queensland and the Wildlife Conservation Society have mapped threats faced by 5,457 species of birds, mammals and amphibians to determine which parts of a species’ habitat range are most affected by known drivers of biodiversity loss.
Continue reading...RBA warns of threats to financial stability from climate change
Washington state ETS bill to skirt this week’s legislative deadline
New York waiting for New Jersey, Virginia before finalising RGGI regulations
Guns, snares and bulldozers: new map reveals hotspots for harm to wildlife
Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let's get back to the facts | Lenore Taylor
At this point of crisis we must bypass rhetoric and political posturing
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Over the past 30 years I have reported so many broken climate policy promises and quoted so much rhetoric that proved to be hollow, it is difficult to trace it back to the start. I think it’s a faded press release from 11 October, 1990 headed “government sets targets for reductions in greenhouse gases”.
“The government recognises the greenhouse effect as one of the major environmental concerns facing the world,” said Ros Kelly, Bob Hawke’s environment minister. “This decision puts Australia at the forefront of international action to reduce emissions of all greenhouse gases.”
Continue reading...Our wide brown land: looking back at a year of environmental reporting
Our wide brown land has come to an end. As we launch the editorial appeal for The Frontline: Australia and the climate emergency, we look back at the impact made by the series
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It was a very long list.
When we first considered the idea of a new investigative series looking at Australia’s less-scrutinised environmental issues, we knew we had to speak to those on the frontline. We discussed the idea with Australia’s top scientists and environmentalists and it became clear there were many issues needing urgent attention.
Continue reading...EU Market: EUAs choppy, directionless amid ongoing Brexit uncertainty
Trump approves five national monuments – from black history to dinosaur bones
The new sites created by a sweeping public lands bill have been years in the making – here’s our guide
Donald Trump has signed a sweeping new public lands bill that protects 1.3m acres of wilderness and creates monuments to US history that has been overlooked, including the African American experience in the civil war and the fight for civil rights.
Years in the crafting, the measure will designate 367 miles of new scenic rivers and 2,600 miles of new national trails. It protects nearly 500,000 acres in California alone, and enlarges both Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks. And it reauthorizes a crucial funding mechanism for land and water conservation that had lapsed.
Continue reading...Orange-bellied 'Starry Dwarf Frog' discovered in Indian mountains
Astrobatrachus kurichiyana lurks in leaf litter and is sole member of an ancient lineage
An orange-bellied frog with a brown back, covered in tiny spots that resemble a starry sky, has been discovered in a mountain range in India, surprising researchers who said its ancestors branched off on the evolutionary tree from other members of the same frog family tens of millions of years ago.
The frog, which is about 2cm to 3cm long, has been named Astrobatrachus kurichiyana, although some might prefer its more rock-star sobriquet: “Starry Dwarf Frog.”
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