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Organisers of more than 60 festivals say calling them 'festival tents' just encourages people to leave them behind.

Adoption of solar by British households and more wind energy helps keep coal out of grid for a record period of more than six days.

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British scientists undertake a new aerial survey of one of the most radioactive locations on Earth.

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Huge increase in solar capacity over last year is reshaping daytime power and taking a big lump out of coal generation.

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Oregon electricity generators and system managers would receive a greater number of carbon allowances through mid-century under an omnibus amendment package introduced Monday for the state’s WCI-modelled carbon market proposal, as some groups began calling on lawmakers to pass the bill out of committee.

RGGI has not held formal discussions with Pennsylvania about potentially joining the northeast US cap-and-trade programme as the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently recommended developing a power sector ETS, the programme chairman told Carbon Pulse.

"Australia can't contain its emissions within it's borders. It's got to look beyond its borders to understand whatever policies are in place in Australia can be disastrous for countries right next door."

Germany-based utility Uniper reported a 47% year-on-year slump in Q1 2019 EBIT to €185 million as power output dropped on warmer weather and amid higher carbon costs, it said in financial results on Tuesday.

This week, the Coalition, followed quickly by Labor, promised $1 million to help develop a hydrogen powered micro-grid north of the Daintree River — but does the project stack up?

California’s forestry offset protocol inflates the amount of emission reductions that have occurred due to inaccurate assumptions built into the methodology, an academic report published Tuesday has shown in findings disputed as flawed by the state’s carbon market regulator and project developers.

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EUAs rose by more than a euro on Tuesday as prices reversed post-compliance losses amid higher gas prices, with traders predicting renewed supply tightness on expectations that industrials will hoard more of their newly-obtained allocations.

In February Dave Mackay guided Virgin Galactic's space craft to almost 56 miles (90km) above earth.

Report calls for change of priorities and culture to avert catastrophic biodiversity loss

Governments need to ramp up investment in nature restoration and raise the tax burden on companies that degrade wildlife, according to recommendations made to the G7 group of rich nations.

The proposals are part of a growing debate on how to radically change humanity’s relationship with nature in the wake of a new UN mega-report that showed an alarming decline in the Earth’s life-support systems.

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There is no joint declaration by Arctic nations as the US criticises climate change wording.

A 92-million-year-old dinosaur provides evolutionary insights on the evolution of the tyrannosaurs.

Undercover footage by activists has exposed brutal treatment for one batch of young calves being trucked to the Netherlands to be sold as veal

Irish calves as young as two weeks old are being beaten, kicked and punched, according to secretly filmed footage.

Campaigners followed more than 5,000 calves on 23 livestock trucks from Ireland to the French control post at Tollevast, where animals are supposed to find rest and feed under EU laws.

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Studying fireflies helped scientists increase light extraction in LEDs by more than 50%

Ex-archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams welcomes plans for fully costed proposals

The former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has welcomed an “urgent change” by Cambridge University, after it agreed to provide fully costed plans setting out how it could divest multibillion-pound endowments from fossil fuel corporations.

The university’s management accepted a motion, known as a grace, which urged Cambridge to “set out fully the advantages and disadvantages, including the social and political ones”, of divestment from global coal, oil and gas companies.

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