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• Labor proposes stronger restrictions on gas exports

  02-09-2018 23:59
  Shorten to pledge a permanent control trigger that can be pulled when prices are too highLabor has proposed stronger export restrictions on gas, promising to help reduce energy costs by reserving more domestic supply.On Monday Bill Shorten will promise a permanent gas export control trigger that can be pulled when gas prices are too high, not just when a gas shortfall is forecast. Continue reading...
  
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• Richard Di Natale: I will work with Labor to get action on climate change

  02-09-2018 20:00
  Greens leader also targets new prime minister and Coalition who he says ‘don’t deserve to govern’The Greens leader Richard Di Natale will promise to work with a new Labor government to get action on climate change back on track.Di Natale makes the pledge in a landmark speech to be delivered on Monday in Melbourne, kicking off a national speaking tour that anticipates the major policy battles of the next federal election. Continue reading...
  
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• Tropical sunfish spotted in Highland waters

  02-09-2018 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The sunfish, normally found in the tropics, was recorded off Skye and Ardnamurchan last week.
  
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• Man bitten while fishing for shark off Irish coast

  02-09-2018 14:04
  Belfast man suffers serious lower arm injury during angling incident near Cork A man has been bitten by a blue shark while fishing off the coast of Cork.The man from Belfast sustained a serious lower arm injury while deep-sea angling on Saturday evening just off the Irish coast. He was given immediate first aid by the crew of the angling boat, before being transferred to a lifeboat where he received further care. Continue reading...
  
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• UK’s green watchdog will be powerless over climate change post-Brexit

  02-09-2018 09:00
  Environmentalists accuse government of using withdrawal of EU controls to weaken regulationMinisters are “deliberately weakening” the green watchdog that will hold the government to account after Britain leaves the EU, according to Labour’s shadow Brexit minister.Theresa May pledged last January to create a “world-leading, independent, statutory body” to ensure ministers stick to their commitments – replacing the power of the European commission to take govern
  
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• Australia will honour Paris climate agreement, Simon Birmingham says

  02-09-2018 04:31
  Trade minister fails to name mechanism for emissions reduction as energy policy looms as key issue in Wentworth byelection
  The trade minister, Simon Birmingham, has claimed Australia will honour its Paris climate agreement commitments but failed to name a mechanism for emissions reduction in government policy.In the wake of the Coalition government removing the emissions reduction component from its signature national energy guarantee before Scott Morrison replaced Malcolm Turnbull, the issue is
  
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• Government's reef monitoring stalled during crisis bleaching event as funds dried up

  02-09-2018 01:34
  Exclusive: Marine Park Authority scaled back surveys in 2017, when mass bleaching occurred in successive years for first timeThe Australian government-funded Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority drastically scaled back surveys of coral bleaching in the middle of an unprecedented two-year marine heatwave, as its monitoring program almost ran out of money.The authority’s field management program conducted more than 660 in-water surveys of reefs in 2016, during the first of two consecutiv
  
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• The all female anti-poaching unit protecting elephants

  02-09-2018 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  This team of women are protecting elephants in the South African bush from ivory poachers.
  
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• This government is not even pretending to act on climate change any more | Greg Jericho

  02-09-2018 00:00
  We have gone from at least trying to look like aiming to reduce emissions to apparently deciding to do nothingWith the appointment of Angus Taylor as minister for energy, Scott Morrison has clearly signalled that he has no care about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. So utterly bereft of reason on the issue and so completely consumed by climate change denial the government is now at the point where even the pretence of doing something to reduce emissions is viewed with distrust. Perhaps somewha
  
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