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Eight weeks needed to remove mass of fat, oil and wet-wipes from sewer in Sidmouth, Devon

A block of hardened fat, oil and wet-wipes longer than six double-decker buses has been discovered in a sewer metres from the sea in a popular Devon resort town.

It will take workers eight weeks to cut up and remove the 64-metre “fatberg” from the sewer beneath The Esplanade in Sidmouth.

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Female Magellanic penguins are more likely to become stranded in South America because they travel further.

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EU utility profit margins have been shielded from rising CO2 prices by power price gains, but this will fade from next year as their forward hedges begin to expire, ratings agency Fitch said on Monday.

The unprecedented wave of stings brings the number of people caught by the so-called "jellyfish armada" that's struck the state since the start of December to more than 22,000.

Twelve Massachusetts companies submitted bids for allowances for the December auction of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) carbon market, with an undisclosed number receiving credits from the first sale, officials announced Monday.

The Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Program seeks a highly motivated, analytically rigorous Policy Analyst to join EDF’s Washington, DC or Boulder office. 

Environment America is seeking a climate change policy fellow for a two-year programme in Denver.

Seas absorb 90% of climate change’s energy as new research reveals vast heating over past 150 years

Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years, according to analysis of new research.

More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the seas, with just a few per cent heating the air, land and ice caps respectively. The vast amount of energy being added to the oceans drives sea-level rise and enables hurricanes and typhoons to become more intense.

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California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices have slid in recent days after reports surfaced that utility PG&E was exploring a possible bankruptcy filing if found liable for a devastating wildfire last year.

Poland’s hastily-passed law to cap retail electricity prices and use EUA sales to compensate utilities has left EU regulators and the power market awaiting details and raised questions as to whether the plans fall foul of the bloc's state aid rules.

Decades-long boom in agricultural land prices will cease as EU subsidies are axed

Brexit will slice nearly one-fifth off the value of Britain’s commercial farms according to forecasters, bringing to an end the decades-long boom in agricultural land prices as EU subsidies are withdrawn.

Property experts Savills said farmland was likely to be the worst-hit sector in the entire UK residential and commercial property sector – faring even worse than shuttered high street shops – as common agricultural policy subsidies are withdrawn.

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Germany’s weekly EU carbon auctions are expected to resume next month, the European Commission said late on Monday, which could introduce more allowances to the supply-constrained market sooner than some had expected.

A London-based hedge fund has booked a better than 50% return for 2018 thanks to a bullish gamble on EU carbon prices.

Longer journeys may exhaust females, say scientists tracking birds off South American coast

Every year, thousands of Magellanic penguins get stranded along the coast of South America – but puzzlingly, about 75% of those that get stuck are female. Now scientists say they have worked out what is behind the gender imbalance: the females migrate further north than males.

Magellanic penguins finish breeding in Patagonia in February, and during the subsequent winter months head north, reaching as far as Brazil, in search of anchovies. But every year thousands become stranded, with many airlifted to safety onboard military aircraft.

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Face-to-face with the marine reptile that swam the ancient seas 200 million years ago.

The first EU carbon allowance auction of the MSR era cleared well below market on Monday as bidders showed caution.

An invasion of bluebottles on Queensland’s Gold and Sunshine coasts led to thousands being treated

More than 5,000 people were stung by bluebottles on Queensland’s Gold and Sunshine coasts over the weekend as weather drove a wall of jellyfish onto the shore.

Conditions eased on Monday but remnants of the bluebottle armada (the correct term for a bunch of bluebottles) still dot the beaches and more than 200 people were treated for stings, mostly at the Sunshine Coast.

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They have been slammed by their colleagues for making irrational claims based on Hindu mythology.

Travel can come with danger, so dogs have mostly evolved to avoid being over-adventurous. That said, dogs may see some kinds of travel as a chance to find things they want -- like food or a mate. Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.