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The Mangrove Photography Award winners show the beauty and fragility of the unique ecosystems.

William Perry Pendley not confirmed by Senate to role as acting Bureau of Land Management director, as required by constitution

A federal judge has ruled that a controversial Trump official who has overseen a vast weakening of public lands protections cannot continue in his position since he has not been approved by the Senate.

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Ever eager to get the message out about climate crisis, the 94-year-old environmentalist joined Instagram last week

David Attenborough must be the only person who can appear on national television to tell us that we are all doomed, probably past the point of no return, that species are dying and the climate is boiling over and yet everybody still loves him. “Unfortunately, you’re all done for,” is what I took from his programme Extinction: The Facts on BBC One earlier this month; still, didn’t it feel nice to hear it from a national treasure?

Similarly, the words “this is my first time on Instagram” are not always a reason for optimism, but Attenborough joined the platform on Thursday, at the age of 94, and as a result he began trending on Twitter. (I have said it before, but when a certain name trends, it can provoke a brief moment of anxiety; in this case, it caused a sharp and thankfully unnecessary intake of breath.) In his first video, which is racking up likes more quickly than a picture of an egg, the presenter doubles down on his Extinction message, using a new platform to impress a sense of urgency to a presumably younger audience. “As we all know, the world is in trouble,” he explains, sombrely, promising to post more videos with suggestions of what we might do about it. It will all accompany his new film, A Life on Our Planet, in which he will dangle a glimpse of hope.

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Efforts now turn to the disposal of some 350 whale carcasses after Australia's worst ever stranding.

For years, the nation has tried to bring Lolita, also known as Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, back to her family from the Miami Seaquarium

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The new coronavirus restrictions have been met with mixed reviews.

The PM promises he won't be caught "lagging" on green polices.

A skipper from Scotland has been telling how an orca pod attacked his yacht in the seas off north west Spain.

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Regulated entities increased their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings by the largest amount since mid-May, as speculators trimmed their positions over the week, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Carbon credits from the forestry and land-use sectors could play an important role in helping corporations and governments achieve CO2 neutrality, though experts on Friday put forth different views as to what extent companies should rely on these offsets.

Desperate stories emerge from the battle to save pilot whales and their calves in Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast

Ingrid Albion has been helping to save whales and dolphins for three decades, but has never seen anything on a scale like this before. Nobody in Australia has.

Within the rugged beauty of Macquarie Harbour, a wild Southern Ocean frontier on the remote Tasmanian west coast, she has witnessed the biggest disaster of its kind seen in this part of the world.

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EU ambassadors failed to agree to finance part of the bloc’s coronavirus recovery plan with carbon pricing revenues on Friday, as member states continued to wrangle over the bloc's next budget.

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New York’s post-2020 RGGI regulation is not yet complete, roughly three months after its public comment period ended, but officials are confident the state will implement the ETS update before the end of the year.

A Virginia utility commission has denied a waiver request from a Dominion Energy subsidiary to include RGGI compliance costs in next year’s power rate, according to a document filed this week.

The broadcaster gains a million followers within five hours of joining the platform.

EUAs dropped on another poor auction showing and wider market weakness on Friday, though prices continued to find support around €26.

Greta Thunberg leads protests as Covid rules restrict numbers compared with last year

School pupils, youth activists and communities around the world have turned out for a day of climate strikes, intended to underscore the urgency of the climate crisis even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Social distancing and other Covid-19 control measures dampened the protests, but thousands of activists posted on social media and took to the streets to protest against the lack of climate action from world leaders. Strikes were scheduled in at least 3,500 locations around the globe.

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