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Man in his 20s was at Pyramids beach when he suffered injuries to his leg and ankle

A bodyboarder has been flown to Royal Perth hospital after he was bitten by a shark at a beach south of the city.

St John Ambulance says the injured man is believed to have “suffered traumatic injuries to a foot and ankle.”

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Kon Karapanagiotidis, Banok Rind, Alisha Fernando, Leila Gurruwiwi, Jane Vadiveloo and Caroline Cabezas talk about the power of love, music, language and hope.

It was thought that cane toads couldn't survive, and certainly couldn't breed as far south as Sydney. That thought was spectacularly wrong. [repeat]

Kate Hughes describes some approaches to explaining risk and says scientists are notoriously poor at this important task.

Alison Crook describes the savings and benefits which come out of local community-based energy retailers.

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Thanks to David Attenborough, TV viewers are about to fall in love with the endangered African wild dog.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices slunk back below $190 this week amid thin activity following data that showed the market to be more in a deficit than expected.

Senator Tim Storer hints at push for national EV target and other incentives as result of Senate inquiry into electric vehicles.

The post Senate inquiry to urge EV targets, range of incentives appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The largest shark nursery to have been found in Irish waters has been discovered among cold-water coral reefs 200 miles west of Ireland. A remotely operated vehicle surveying the deep ocean floor revealed thousands of egg cases deposited on coral skeletons at depths of up to 750 metres 92,500ft).

• Ocean floor rover finds large shark nursery in Irish waters - video

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Farmers will receive 100% compensation for any damages caused by bears, wolves and other wild carnivores.

Starlings, a goldfinch, flamingos and winners of wildlife photography awards are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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Federal Government announces via changes, investigation into live export handling and economic impact of drought becoming clearer.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) published amendments Thursday that would implement the suite of post-2020 changes to the RGGI carbon market agreed to by the programme’s nine member states.

California saw significant GHG reductions in 2017 as renewable and hydroelectric power displaced natural gas-fired generation, but stakeholders are not certain the trend will continue much longer.

District court judge Brian Morris rules Trump administration did not consider environmental consequences before pushing ahead

A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, ruling that the Trump administration didn’t properly consider the environmental consequences before pushing ahead with the enormous oil project.

Related: 'Treating protest as terrorism': US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists

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Germany's finance ministry has shot down Environment Minister Svenja Schulze's plan to expand carbon pricing domestically.

The joint Europe-Russia mission to the Red Planet in 2020 will investigate an ancient water-altered terrain.

Experts describe discovery of blackmouth catsharks as ‘David Attenborough stuff’

The largest shark nursery to have been found in Irish waters has been discovered among cold-water coral reefs 200 miles west of Ireland.

A remotely operated vehicle surveying the deep ocean floor revealed thousands of egg cases, popularly known as “mermaid’s purses”, deposited on coral skeletons at depths of up to 750 metres (2,500ft).

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