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The BIOPAMA Action Component call for proposals for small technical grants of up to 50,000 and up to 100,000 EUR is open until 4 February 2020.

Hot on the heels of the World Meteorological Organization's report on greenhouse gas concentrations, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) has published its regular snapshot of how the world is doing in cutting levels of these pollutants...Countries will have to increase their carbon-cutting ambiti

The blaze, which took place in an environment supposedly resistant to fire, is the clearest sign climate change has affected the tropics...A year ago, a black scar appeared on the far north Queensland landscape.

Bangu is a Karajarri Indigenous ranger, a success story from the school-based trainee program, and is close to receiving his Certificate III and becoming a senior ranger.

Migratory short-tailed shearwaters are Australia’s most numerous seabird, but washed-up carcasses, late arrivals and low numbers have conservationists worried. The carcasses began to arrive in July.

The Energy Department is launching a program to partner with the private sector in developing technologies to recycle plastic and keep waste out of rivers, oceans, and landfills.

The southern Cook Islands of Atiu, Mauke and Mitiaro have turned down a request that local company Ocean Fresh be allowed to fish commercially within 50 nautical miles of their islands. The Nga Pu Toru say they will uphold the Marae Moana legislation...The establishment of the Marae Moana ma

Prince Charles is calling for people to become more sustainable in order to reverse the damage to the environment and mitigate climate change...Prince Charles spoke about how worrying and devastating humans' impact on the environment has become."We have reached a tipping point and we still have t

Noise produced by human activities should be better regulated to protect wildlife, say the authors of a study exposing how sound pollution affects myriad creatures from fish to birds.Road traffic, aircraft, ships, factories and oil drilling are all human activities that produce noise, most – but

This year is increasingly likely to be the planet's second- or third-warmest calendar year on record since modern temperature data collection began in 1880, according to data released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.