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CALIFORNIA AIR REGULATORS VOTE TO KEEP TOUGH FUEL STANDARDS
AP -- California air regulators voted Friday to keep the state's tough vehicle emissions standards through 2025... READ MORE›
INSULT, OFFEND AND HUMILIATE PROVISIONS TO BE REMOVED FROM RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT
Racial abuse will become more common in Australia if the changes go ahead, according to Labor... READ MORE›
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLANS RECONSIDERATION OF AUTO-EMISSION STANDARDS
Earlier Friday, a coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and Union of Concerned Scientists issued a joint statement urging the vehicle standards be maintained... READ MORE›
SUNDAY PENALTY RATES TO DOMINATE AS PARLIAMENT RESUMES
Cafe owner, Anne Perre, says despite the Fair Work Commission's decision she'll continue to pay her staff the same Sunday wages... READ MORE›
AUTOMAKERS ASK TRUMP'S EPA BOSS TO TOSS OBAMA MILEAGE DECISION
They may also find a friendly response from Pruitt, who focused his political career attacking Obama administration efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
REPUBLICAN ELDERS CALL FOR NEW NATIONAL CARBON TAX TO REPLACE FEDERAL REGULATIONS
The group's plan outlines a carbon tax of 40 for each ton emitted, which would increase steadily over time... READ MORE›
'IT'S TRICKY': WHY THERE'S NO MAGIC NUMBER FOR AN EFFECTIVE CARBON TAX
First, governments charge very different prices for carbon dioxide emissions... READ MORE›
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PARIS CLIMATE DEAL: NEARLY 200 NATIONS SIGN IN END OF FOSSIL FUEL ERA
The text commits countries to peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, and to seek a balance between human-caused emissions and removals by carbon sinks... READ MORE›
GERMAN COALITION AGREES TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS UP TO 95% BY 2050
Germany's environment minister Barbara Hendricks first presented a list of ambitious CO2 reduction targets for various economic sectors in 2015... READ MORE›
PM BANNED FROM MARDI GRAS AS AN OFFICIAL GUEST OVER MARRIAGE EQUALITY ANGER
Last year the PM became the first sitting prime minister to attend Mardi Gras despite complaints from some right wing members of the Liberal backbench... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS SHATTERED AS CLIMATE CHANGE 'PLAYS OUT BEFORE US'
Temperatures, sea levels and carbon dioxide all hit milestones amid extreme weather in 2015, major international 'state of the climate' report finds... READ MORE›
UK, FRANCE AND GERMANY LOBBIED FOR FLAWED CAR EMISSIONS TESTS, DOCUMENTS REVEAL
But a fully-charged battery also prevents a car's alternator from kicking in and releasing carbon emissions during tests, as would happen in real world driving situations... READ MORE›
MPS VOTE 207 TO 81 TO BACK PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT IN HOUSE TONIGHT
McKenna insisted carbon pricing is just one part of a sweeping national climate change strategy, which will include green infrustructure and public transit... READ MORE›
WHY THE MEDIA MUST MAKE CLIMATE CHANGE A VITAL ISSUE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP
There is much detail to work out, both on the impacts of climate change and how Trump's policies will influence them... READ MORE›
GRAND PROMISES OF PARIS CLIMATE DEAL UNDERMINED BY SQUALID RETRENCHMENTS
But the Paris agreement is full of soft facts promises that can slip or unravel... READ MORE›
STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS NOW: THERE IS NO CO2 'TECHNOFIX', SCIENTISTS WARN
In a thought experiment they tried another option the future dramatic removal of huge volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere... READ MORE›
GLOBAL WARMING MAY BE FAR WORSE THAN THOUGHT, CLOUD ANALYSIS SUGGESTS
Climate change projections have vastly underestimated the role that clouds play, meaning future warming could be far worse than is currently projected, according to new research... READ MORE›
THE DALAI LAMA WHY IM HOPEFUL ABOUT THE WORLDS FUTURE
My generation has witnessed so much violence -- some historians estimate that more than 200 million people were killed in conflicts in the 20th century... READ MORE›
FOR TONY ABBOTT, IT'S FULL STEAM AHEAD ON COAL, 'THE FOUNDATION OF PROSPERITY'
Australia's insistence on locking itself into fossil fuels while distancing itself from ambitious efforts to combat climate change has not gone unnoticed overseas... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL PRESIDENT OBAMAS TOUGH ACHIEVABLE CLIMATE PLAN
It imposes the first nationwide limits on carbon dioxide pollution from power plants the source of 31 percent of America's total greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
ABBOTT SURVIVES LEADERSHIP TEST
Related Stories Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged an end to disunity after surviving a party confidence vote on his leadership... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL WIPE $2.5TN OFF GLOBAL FINANCIAL ASSETS
Climate change will wipe 2.5tn off global financial assets study... READ MORE›
CATACLYSMS FROM THE NORTH POLE TO SOUTH AMERICA
Is one factor, human-caused climate change and global warming is another... READ MORE›
EU WANTS PARIS CLIMATE DEAL TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS 60% BY 2050
EU wants Paris climate deal to cut carbon emissions 60 percent by 2050... READ MORE›
ENACTING CAP-AND-TRADE WILL PRESENT CHALLENGES UNDER CHINAS SYSTEM
Europe's emissions trading system has stumbled amid criticism that it gave out emissions permits too generously and failed to make companies change their energy habits... READ MORE›
ANTHRAX OUTBREAK TRIGGERED BY CLIMATE CHANGE SICKENS DOZENS IN ARCTIC CIRCLE
Three unusual sinkholes were discovered on the Yamal peninsula in 2014, a phenomenon that many scientists also tied to climate change... READ MORE›
CLIMATE SUMMITA??S PLEDGES ON CARBON CUTS A??WONA??T AVERT GLOBAL DISASTERA??
Melting of the tundra at the polar ice cap would release more methane and other greenhouse gases... READ MORE›
WORLD COULD WARM BY MASSIVE 10C IF ALL FOSSIL FUELS ARE BURNED
The unregulated exploitation of fossil fuel resources could result in significant, more profound climate change... READ MORE›
CANADA SWITCHES ON WORLD'S FIRST CARBON CAPTURE POWER PLANT
Boundary Dam held up as first commercial-scale CCS plant and proof that coal-burning is compatible with cutting emissions... READ MORE›
POPE TO URGE SWIFT ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING
Pope Francis will call for swift action to protect the Earth and fight global warming according to a leaked draft of the pontiff's encyclical... READ MORE›
THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH SCIENCE AGAINST OBAMA
Apparently a majority of the court is less confident of the science around climate change than Obama is... READ MORE›
HUMANS DAMAGING THE ENVIRONMENT FASTER THAN IT CAN RECOVER, UN FINDS
Despite the recent global agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, signed in Paris last December, global carbon output continues to rise... READ MORE›
NATIONS STRIKE HISTORIC DEAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100... READ MORE›
UN CRITICISES UK AND GERMANY FOR BETRAYING PARIS CLIMATE DEAL
Climate change envoy singles out both countries for subsidising the fossil fuel industry and says the UK has lost its position as a climate leader... READ MORE›
SELL LAST GASOLINE CAR BY 2035 TO MEET CLIMATE GOALS, STUDY SAYS
The CAT is one of the main groups that monitors government actions to restrict global warming and includes researchers who are authors on UN climate reports... READ MORE›
FOSSIL-FUEL CO2 EMISSIONS NEARLY STABLE FOR THIRD YEAR IN ROW
We can fix climate change, but only if we refuse to abandon hope... READ MORE›
SCIENCE TEACHERS GRASP OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS FOUND LACKING
The fear of that kind of response might dissuade other teachers, she said, even though climate change is included in Florida's education standards... READ MORE›