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To maintain our role as a global food bowl, Australia has to keep innovating in agricultural technology. Sam Rudd, SIEF Ross Metcalf STEM+Business Fellow - Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia Drew Evans, Associate Professor of Energy & Advanced Manufacturing, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The number of live animals seized by the Australian Government has tripled since 2017, with blue-tongue lizards and sulphur-crested cockatoos frequently captured. Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University Justine O'Brien, Manager of Conservation Science, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, University of Sydney, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A record number of lawsuits against government climate action were filed last year, building pressure to bolster ambition and a move by vulnerable states to involve the International Court of Justice.

A lack of standardisation in framing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) could leave buyers of offsets duped over the social, environment and economic benefits of a project in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), according to a report published on Thursday.

EUA prices held station around a key technical support level in thin trade on Thursday as traders described a market lacking direction, while energy markets were also quiet amid anticipation of a Brussels plan to cap energy costs that may include rules governing speculation in natural gas markets.

Moves are underway to cement a collective pledge by 141 countries to arrest and reverse deforestation by 2030 into a cohesive partnership at November's COP27 UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh that includes cooperation on carbon markets.

Billboards hijacked across Europe to highlight role of airline emissions in climate crisis

As Kate, 23, walked out of Seven Sisters station, in Tottenham, north London, she noticed an airline advertisement attracting unusual attention.

“I was on my way back home, I was coming out of the station, and I saw two people taking pictures of the billboard,” she said. “I thought at first it was just a normal airline ad, so I just walked past. Then I did a bit of a double take.”

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A leading European exchange and environmental product developer have inked a new cooperation agreement Thursday, expanding an existing partnership as they look to ramp up listed environmental markets in Europe and North America.

Scientific review into fracking concludes there is still a limited understanding of impacts.

Exclusive: Government discussing plans to designate sites as nationally significant infrastructure projects

Liz Truss is considering designating fracking sites as nationally important infrastructure, potentially cutting out local communities and breaking a leadership election promise, the Guardian can reveal.

During her campaign to be the Conservative party leader, Truss said new sites would only go ahead with local consent. However, those familiar with discussions in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), led by Jacob Rees-Mogg, say there have been discussions about pushing through sites without local approval by designating them as nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs).

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Energy secretary tells MPs that quakes of 2.5 on Richter scale are routine natural phenomenon

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Opposition to fracking is based around “hysteria” and the public not understanding the Richter scale for seismic activity, Jacob Rees-Mogg has told MPs, after formally lifting the ban on drilling for shale gas in England.

The business and energy secretary told the Commons that the previous limit on the extent of potential earthquake activity caused by fracking – 0.5 on the Richter scale – was too low, and that quakes of 2.5 were a perfectly routine natural phenomenon globally.

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Investigation reveals cattle raised on Mỹky territory ended up in global supply chain including food giant

On one side of the fence, in dense forest, the Mỹky people grow their crops: cassava, pequi and cabriteiro fruit. On the other side, ranchers raise cattle on devastated land. That land is the Mỹky’s, they say.

Xinuxi Mỹky, the village elder, says this region used to be a forest where different villages thrived. Only one now remains and the farms have cut into that land as well. “This pasture, where the whites live, was also our village, but now they are raising cattle. The land belonged to us: Indigenous peoples.”

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Recent record fire seasons in the west have increased pollution across the country, affecting people’s health, scientists say

Millions of Americans are now routinely exposed to unhealthy plumes of wildfire smoke that can waft thousands of miles across the country, scientists have warned.

Wildfires cause soot and ash to be thrown off into the air, which then carries the minuscule particles that can be inhaled by people many miles away, aggravating a variety of health conditions. The number of people in the US exposed to unhealthy levels of these particulates from wildfires at least one day a year has increased 27-fold over the last decade, a new study found, with 25 million people in 2020 alone breathing in potentially toxic air from fires.

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Guardian analysis finds 151 licences already granted threaten environmentally important spots

• England fracking ban lifted – with limits on seismic activity set to be raised

Licences for fracking encroach on some of the most environmentally protected areas in England, including national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty.

As the government lifted the ban on drilling for shale gas, the Guardian analysed where drilling might take place in months and years to come.

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The Space Launch System edges closer to a maiden flight after concluding a tanking demonstration.

People living in the countryside face higher costs than those in urban areas, a new report finds

People living in the countryside face higher costs than those in urban areas, a new report finds

Australia is the global leader in finding straight forward solutions to the variability of solar power and wind. Here's why.

The post There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The number of global hydrogen projects in the pipeline has reached a new high of 680, reflecting investment of $240 billion, but investment proposals will need to reach to $700 bln by 2030 if low carbon hydrogen is to align with a net zero emissions by 2050 pathway, an industry report has said.

Exclusive: Faith In Nature to give non-executive director or ‘nature guardian’ voice in business strategy

A beauty company has appointed a director to represent nature on its board, giving the natural world a legal say in its business strategy.

Faith In Nature, which sells soap and haircare products, as well as household cleaners and shampoo for dogs, says it is the first company in the world to give nature a formal vote on corporate decisions that might affect it.

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