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Rangers are sick of mistaken panther sightings, which detract from the fight against feral cats

A large cat in Western Australia that was mistaken for a panther is the latest in a long line of mythical big cat sightings that wildlife rangers say are unhelpful.

The large black feline – estimated to be 50% larger than a house cat – was spotted in the town of Coorow, 275km north of Perth, in late June, and reported to wildlife authorities as a potential panther or big cat.

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This week, will the new Country of Origin food labels make a difference to what you buy; and how is the mighty Murray Cod faring since the evolution of the Murray-Darling Basin plan?

A farmers' market goes plastic free in July; drovers hit the road as the big dry bites; Lorna Driscoll is a veteran water diviner; and Tathra's bushland rises from the ashes.

RSPCA has collected a large number of gulls exhibiting signs of disorientation, confusion and loss of balance

Gulls in Devon and areas of Dorset have been portraying signs of drunkenness, the RSPCA has said.

The animal welfare charity has collected a large number of gulls exhibiting signs of disorientation, confusion and loss of balance. The first incidents were reported on 21 June.

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EU carbon prices rebounded from a morning dip to end Friday within reach of the previous session’s one-month high, as the ongoing heatwave boosted prospects for an uptick in utility demand.

Scott Pruitt’s replacement is a more dangerous prospect for those aghast at the administration’s attitude to the environment

Scott Pruitt, who on Thursday resigned as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was a firm favourite of Donald Trump. But Pruitt was plagued by scandal and faltered in carrying out the president’s agenda of peeling back clean air and water regulations. His replacement is likely to be far more adept.

Related: Goodbye to the worst EPA administrator of all time | Richard Wolffe

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RSPCA staff have been left scratching their heads after a string of callouts to collect 'drunk' gulls. The animal welfare charity is concerned the birds have been gaining access to waste products from a local brewery or alcohol producer, making them disoriented and confused.

Jo Daniel, an RSPCA officer, said 'the birds absolutely stink of alcohol' when they collect them

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Norway’s state-owned oil and gas producer Equinor has acquired Danish energy trading firm Danske Commodities (DC) for €400 million euros ($470 mln), it announced Friday.

Voters in Arizona will decide in November whether to endorse a marked increase in the US state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) after campaigners turned in more than double the necessary signatures for the ballot initiative on Thursday.

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Bristol University has discovered how spiders fly thousands of miles

Below is a table of the closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.

A rare shark sighting, flying ants and a saltwater crocodile are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has issued 367,879 carbon credits over the past two weeks, with a NSW-based forestry scheme earning nearly a third of the volume.

The pollution has now "diluted" and is no longer causing problems, says the Environment Agency.

New government white paper states that Britain is planing no major changes to catch quotas

British fishing fleets will face a tough struggle to wring a substantial advantage from Brexit, despite the prime minister’s promises, owing to key concessions in the government’s fishing proposals and the difficulty of persuading other EU member states to give up their current rights in British and shared waters, the Guardian has found.

Michael Gove, the environment secretary, published a white paper on Wednesday setting out the UK’s approach to fisheries after 2020, when the Brexit transition period is likely to end. He hailed “a sea of opportunity … we can take back control of our waters and revitalise coastal communities”.

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China has launched a carbon trading scheme to improve fuel efficiency for vehicles and boost the production of so-called new energy vehicles (NEVs), though the government’s own data shows the market will be over-supplied in its early years.

Grand Manan Island temporarily halted fishing after the sighting of a single endangered whale, to the surprise of fishermen there

In 30 years of fishing for lobster in the Bay of Fundy between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Laurence Cook has been forced off the water by high winds, winter storms and icy conditions.

But until this summer, he had never had to stay home because of a whale.

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