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If the world blows past its climate targets in 2025, Australia will have played a key role in supplying the fuel that does the damage.

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The US president-elect says the team will lead his "ambitious plan" to combat climate change.

Archaeologists link the destruction of a "high status" village to the uprising in Roman Britain.

Critics say plan for third runway runs counter to UK’s legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050

The government is facing a legal challenge over its plan to expand Heathrow airport, with lawyers and environmentalists demanding it review its policy in line with its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050.

The Good Law Project, a not-for-profit organisation with a focus on public interest cases including environmentalism and tackling poverty, is arguing that the government must update its plan for a third runway to take into account the emissions pledge it made following the airport expansion’s approval in June 2018.

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Sir David examines how wildlife adapts to the forces of nature, such as volcanoes, in a new series.

MEPs are grappling with how quickly to withdraw free carbon allowances from EU heavy industries under a proposed carbon border levy, while ex-officials warn of a potential diplomatic furore ahead.

Plans for airports, energy and roads are facing multiple legal challenges over climate commitments.

Low-cost offsets from emerging or developed nations dominated voluntary carbon market supply in 2019, while market participants fear efforts to standardise pricing will make premiums even harder to achieve for high quality activities, according to a report published Friday.

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Compliance entities and speculators slashed California Carbon Allowance (CCA) futures holdings this week, as traders largely focused on moving positions further out on the curve ahead of the December expiry, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

California and Quebec’s first post-2020 carbon auction will feature 54.8 million current vintage allowances, marking a decline from the Q4 sale largely due to lower consignment, according to an auction notice published Friday.

The Canadian government on Friday released draft regulations to implement a Clean Fuel Standard (CFS), roughly a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration announced plans to trim the scope of the programme.

Next year will be slightly cooler thanks to La Niña, but will still be one of the hottest on record.

The best of the week’s wildlife pictures from around the world, including devil-eyed frogs, bats and pangolins

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Coalition funding for gas exploration in Northern Territory labelled a costly plan ‘for a climate catastrophe’

The Morrison government has been accused of embarking on an “expensive plan for a climate catastrophe” after it announced it would pay the gas industry up to $50m to speed up exploration in the Northern Territory.

The commitment, revealed on Thursday, also prompted warnings that taxpayers’ money could flow offshore to companies linked to tax havens and a Russian oligarch.

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Friends of the Earth calls for end to such excavation in England after unanimous decision on Dewley Hill site

A decision by planners to block a new opencast coal mine in north-east England should “bring down the curtain” on such sites, Friends of the Earth have said.

After a three-hour hearing on Friday, Newcastle city council’s planning committee unanimously rejected Banks Mining’s application to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal from a site at Dewley Hill near Throckley.

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EUAs slipped below €31 on Friday amid sliding energy and equity prices, with carbon continuing its retreat from this week's record high despite a supply shortage.

Exclusive: Burners should be sold with health warnings, say scientists who found tiny particles flooding into rooms

Wood burners triple the level of harmful pollution particles inside homes and should be sold with a health warning, says scientists, who also advise that they should not be used around elderly people or children.

The tiny particles flood into the room when the burner doors are opened for refuelling, a study found. Furthermore, people who load in wood twice or more in an evening are exposed to pollution spikes two to four times higher than those who refuel once or not at all.

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The broadband network owned by UK taxpayers and an Indian conglomerate sends up 36 new satellites.