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Exclusive: Candidates hoping to hold the balance of power to push for state-level development bansFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe “kingmaker” Sydney …
Norway’s sovereign wealth titan threatens to vote against boards on firms it holds investments with over lax climate and social targetsNorway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s single largest investor, has warned company directors it will vote agains…
Auckland has experienced its wettest January since records began, while temperatures plummet in southern USHistoric rainfall hit New Zealand in the past week with a one-in-170-year flooding event hitting Auckland. Auckland airport reported 249mm of rai…
The Department of Energy’s loan programs office was ‘essentially dormant’, says Jigar Shah, its head – but now it’s ready to bankroll clean energy projectsDeep in the confines of the hulking, brutalist headquarters of the US Department of Energy, down …
Campaigners urge leading poultry producer Avara Foods to fund reparations for pollution from its chicken farm suppliersAvara Foods, a leading supplier of chicken to Tesco, is being urged by campaigners to pay reparations to help clean up the River Wye….
NSW environment officials alert Fire and Rescue over concerns plastic is being stored dangerously following suspension of the REDcycle schemeFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app o…
Comedian leads coalition against ‘exploitative’ proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed stationGriff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (3…
Local authorities say policing government’s new standards on smoke pollution is beyond their meansLocal authorities lack the resources for the crackdown on highly polluting wood burners promised by the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, they say.Wo…
Butterfly Conservation report reveals 42% decline in distribution of 58 native species since 1976Butterfly species have vanished from nearly half of the places where they once flew in the UK since 1976, according to a study.The distribution of 58 nativ…
Large volumes of traps, nets and marine debris in sperm whale’s intestinal tract highlight plastic pollution’s threat to wildlifeA sperm whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend probably died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing t…