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Artist Georgia Angus has drawn 25 birds from this year’s poll and we’ve created a poster for Guardian readers to download and enjoy. Use it as a desktop background, print it as an A1-sized poster, a tea towel or a tote bag – the choice is yours

• Vote now in the Australian bird of the year poll 2021
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This year’s poll has had its share of controversies.

The pelican crashed out despite a high-profile campaign in support, the late surge in support for the otherwise unloved galah, and the regent honeyeater coming back from the brink after a heartfelt plea from BirdLife’s Sean Dooley.

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Ahead of COP26, Ros Atkins looks at what the world's biggest emitters are doing to tackle climate change.

Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what's the evidence?

There are too many “tourists” in the EU carbon market, which cause allowance prices to follow “rubbish stuff”, thereby causing unnecessary volatility, a panel heard Wednesday.

Fuel-switching economics are playing less of a role in European carbon price formation than financial flows, analysts said, adding that the role of non-compliance participants isn’t affecting the fundamentals of the EU ETS.

Russia has drafted a new climate strategy that includes a 2060 net zero emissions target, according to local media reports, with the potential to bolster its position ahead of COP26 and respond to looming carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) risks.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit values trended higher over the past week after falling to 3.5-year lows, though traders said the uptick did not signal any fundamental changes in the programme.

Washington may choose to eliminate the carbon intensity reduction target during the first year of the state’s low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS), and is considering several scenarios for rearranging the abatement schedule, Department of Ecology (ECY) officials said Wednesday.

Wild sandalwood populations in Australia have been slowly collapsing for decades. New research found the Western Australian government has been warned repeatedly for a century. Richard McLellan, PhD candidate, Charles Sturt University David M Watson, Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Kingsley Dixon, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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A flash of colour that caught my eye at the age of 10 in 1968 – that’s how far back I trace a sense of obligation to care for the biodiversity that was here first

• Australian bird of the year poll 2021

A flash of colour that takes my eye at the age of 10 in 1968 and learning that it is an Adelaide rosella.

Reaching the edge of a vast swamp north of Birdsville in 1982 thinking, “This is perfect habitat for grey grasswrens. They must be here.” And they are! Right at the edge of the road – just the third population ever discovered until then of an inland Australian bird only described to science in 1969.

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The UK's fortnightly carbon allowance auction failed to sell out on Wednesday, with just 80% of the UKAs on offer finding buyers, as bid prices fell far below the prevailing market price.

EU carbon plummeted by as much as 7.5% on Wednesday numerous bearish pressures including reports of a big emitter unwinding hedges and selling relating to margin calls – all as gas prices spiked further and EU lawmakers discussed Europe’s energy crisis and possibly curbs to ETS speculation.