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• On climate change and the economy, we're trapped in an idiotic netherworld | Greg Jericho

  10-12-2016 22:00
  
  The shrieks of horror that follow mentions of pricing carbon show politics remains wedded to the belief that economic growth trumps concerns of climate changeThis week was a prime example of how economics and, by extension, politics doesn’t cope very well with the issue of climate change. The news that Australia economy went backwards in the September quarter was greeted with alarm by politicians and then used as a reason to push their policy barrow. And most of the barrows were piled high
  
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• Home Office forced to defend anti-fracking groups from extremism claims

  10-12-2016 21:37
  
  Government steps in after council and school identify campaigners as key risks under controversial Prevent programmeThe Home Office has been forced to make it clear that anti-fracking campaigners should not be considered extremists after a council and a school in North Yorkshire used the government’s counter-terrorism programme to target environmental protesters.City of York council included anti-fracking activists in its Prevent programme, the controversial centrepiece of the government&r
  
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• Russia signs Rosneft deal with Qatar, Glencore

  10-12-2016 21:09
  By Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state holding company Rosneftegaz on Saturday signed a deal with the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and commodities trader Glencore to sell a 19.5 percent stake in state-owned oil major Rosneft , Rosneft said. The privatisation deal, which Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin called the largest in Russia's history, was announced by Rosneft in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
  
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• OPEC, non-OPEC agree first global oil pact since 2001

  10-12-2016 16:45
  By Vladimir Soldatkin, Rania El Gamal and Alex Lawler VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC and non-OPEC producers on Saturday reached their first deal since 2001 to curtail oil output jointly and ease a global glut after more than two years of low prices that overstretched many budgets and spurred unrest in some countries. With the deal finally signed after almost a year of arguing within the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and mistrust in the willingness of non-OPEC Russia to play ball, th
  
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• Doctors call for ban on diesel engines in London

  10-12-2016 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A campaign led by medical professionals is calling for all diesel cars to be banned from London.
  
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• Non-OPEC to cut oil output by 562,000 bpd as part of global deal

  10-12-2016 15:55
  VIENNA (Reuters) - Non-OPEC oil producers agreed on Saturday to reduce their output by a combined 562,000 barrels per day as part of a global deal with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, two OPEC sources told Reuters. (Reporting by Alex Lawler and Rania El Gamal; Editing by Dale Hudson)
  
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• Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers

  10-12-2016 09:18
  
  Two to three rangers are being shot a week as poachers step up their predations on the world’s wildlifeAnother day, another dead wildlife ranger. We must do more to help themA Cameroonian ranger was ambushed and killed by ivory poachers on Wednesday while patrolling to protect elephants and gorillas. During the last morning of a 10-day patrol in Lobéké National Park, Bruce Danny Ngongo was shot three times, once in the thigh and twice in the hip.“[Ngongo fell after] an
  
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• Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage? | Sean Willmore

  10-12-2016 09:18
  
  Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers
  As we sat by the campfire, Gervais, a ranger from the forests of Malawi, slowly pulled back his hair to expose a 20cm scar left by a machete attack that nearly killed him. Poachers, he told me.I was at an international rangers’ conference, held 13 years ago in a national park on the southern tip of mainland Au
  
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• Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage?

  10-12-2016 09:18
  
  Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers
  As we sat by the campfire, Gervais, a ranger from the forests of Malawi, slowly pulled back his hair to expose a 20cm scar left by a machete attack that nearly killed him. Poachers, he told me.I was at an international rangers’ conference, held 13 years ago in a national park on the southern tip of mainland Au
  
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• Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. We must do more to help them

  10-12-2016 09:18
  
  Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers
  As we sat by the campfire, Gervais, a ranger from the forests of Malawi, slowly pulled back his hair to expose a 20cm scar left by a machete attack that nearly killed him. Poachers, he told me.I was at an international rangers’ conference, held 13 years ago in a national park on the southern tip of mainland Au
  
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• Is it a false economy to turn off radiators in rooms we don’t use?

  10-12-2016 08:00
  
  A friend says this risks damp and makes our whole Victorian house coldEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• An elemental challenge for climbers and storm-watchers

  10-12-2016 06:30
  
  Bosherston, Pembrokeshire To stand on the cliff as green combers thud into the walls beneath, roar into the cave and recoil in white chaos is to become aware of even rock’s fragilityThe bird ledges on Mowing Word, a cock’s spur of a limestone point on the south Pembrokeshire coast, are empty now. The guillemots and razorbills that jostle, cackle and croon here through the spring months, their single eggs perilously free from nests’ constraints, are far out to sea, searching for
  
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• China opens investigation into slaughter of rare sea turtle

  10-12-2016 04:35
  BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China have opened an investigation into the slaughter and sale of a protected leatherback sea turtle by local fishermen, media reported Saturday.
  
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• World’s oldest known seabird lays an egg at age of 66

  10-12-2016 03:55
  
  Laysan albatross known as Wisdom is also the world’s oldest known breeding bird in the wild and has had a few dozen chicksThe world’s oldest known seabird is expecting – again.Biologists spotted the Laysan albatross called Wisdom at Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge earlier this month after she returned to the island to nest. Continue reading...
  
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• Canada sets its first national carbon price at C$10 a tonne

  10-12-2016 02:53
  
  Eight of 10 provinces have signed deal to implement carbon tax or cap-and-trade markets, says Justin TrudeauThe Canadian government has agreed a deal with eight of the country’s 10 provinces to introduce its first national carbon price, Justin Trudeau has told reporters.The prime minister said the move would help Canada meet its international climate change obligations. Continue reading...
  
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• Malcolm Turnbull shut down the only credible option for our failing energy market | Jay Weatherill

  10-12-2016 02:06
  
  Any remaining optimism Australians had for Malcolm Turnbull evaporated this week when once again he proved incapable of acting in the national interestHere we go again.Just like last year’s sorry excuse for a debate on taxation reform, where nation building policy ideas were knocked off the table one by one, we find our federal government again unable to act in the national interest when it comes to energy policy. Continue reading...
  
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• Cryogenic storage offers hope for renewable energy

  10-12-2016 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's largest cold energy storage plant, which can act like a giant battery for renewable energy, is being commissioned at a site near Manchester.
  
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