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Spending long periods in space and extreme-duration swimming both cause the heart to lose mass.

The EU must maintain current national emissions targets for non-ETS sectors to ensure a “fair burden sharing” as Brussels moves to overhaul its climate policy framework, the leaders of five Central and Eastern EU nations said in a letter seen by Carbon Pulse on Monday.

Mask and gloves protect people but harm animals from penguins to dogs when discarded, researchers say

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The masks and gloves protecting people from coronavirus are proving a deadly threat to wildlife when thrown away, a report has found.

A fish trapped in the finger of a rubber glove in the Netherlands, a penguin in Brazil with a mask in its stomach and a fox in the UK entangled in a mask were among the victims.

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A BBC undercover reporter saw practices that could mean people receiving a wrong test result.

Imports of coffee, cocoa and beef in rich countries cause the loss of almost four trees per person per year.

Research links consumption of foods such as coffee and chocolate to global deforestation

The average western consumer of coffee, chocolate, beef, palm oil and other commodities is responsible for the felling of four trees every year, many in wildlife-rich tropical forests, research has calculated.

Destruction of forests is a major cause of both the climate crisis and plunging wildlife populations, as natural ecosystems are razed for farming. The study is the first to fully link high-resolution maps of global deforestation to the wide range of commodities imported by each country across the world.

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Move over David Brent, settle down John Betjeman, the town is going to be an environmental pioneer.

China’s environment ministry on Monday released new rules designed to prevent false reporting of emissions under its national CO2 trading scheme, targeting dozens of state-owned enterprises that have tasked their own subsidiaries with verifying their CO2 output.

CEP reveals the second of four grid-scale energy storage projects, a 150MW big battery to be built on the outer Adelaide site of the former GMH manufacturing plant.

The post CEP to build 150MW big battery at former Holden plant in South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CO2 Value is looking for a Brussels-based Policy and Advocacy Manager who will play a key role in developing and implementing the policy and advocacy strategy of the association.

New Zealand could face steeply rising carbon prices and an illiquid secondary market for NZUs if the government implements the recommendations from the independent Climate Change Commission as is, fuel supplier Z Energy has warned.

Developers have delivered close to 1.5 million new credits to the Emissions Reduction fund (ERF) over the past month, according to Clean Energy Regulator data, while a private equity firm has taken a majority stake in Climate Friendly.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull picked to lead key NSW government clean energy advisory board.

The post Turnbull picked to chair NSW zero emissions advisory board appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UN development chief says access to finance is vital if upcoming Cop26 climate talks are to be a success

Boris Johnson’s government must take the lead in giving poor countries access to the finance they need to tackle the climate crisis, to make vital climate talks a success, the UN’s development chief has said.

Ministers from around the world will meet virtually this week at a conference hosted by the UK to discuss the needs of developing nations struggling to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, as their economies have been left reeling by the Covid pandemic.

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More than 40 asset managers, including the world’s two biggest, have added their signatures to an initiative seeking to align global investment portfolios with a target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.

Rebecca Pow says government will have to report on efforts to reduce discharge from storm overflows

The environment minister, Rebecca Pow, has promised to bring in legislation to reduce discharge of raw sewage into rivers. Pow said that she would be placing a legal duty on government to come up with a plan to cut dumping by water companies by September 2022.

Pressure has been growing on water companies and ministers as evidence grows of the scale of the issue and amid increasing evidence of the poor state of rivers.

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Australia has the skills and infrastructure to support a national hydrogen economy, but first we must lead the world in finding the answer to hydrogen embrittlement.

The post Hydrogen could be the future of energy – but there’s one big road block appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland researchers demonstrate all-in-one chemical pathways to carbon storage, green hydrogen and construction materials in new research paper.

The post All-in-one solution tackles carbon capture, green hydrogen and building materials appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The NSW state government in Australia has issued a tender for the supply of domestic carbon credits to a voluntary carbon offsetting scheme for light vehicles it is planning as part of its efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles blows in from drought-hit Mongolia

The second sandstorm to hit China in less than a fortnight has reversed the colours of the sky, turning the sun blue and the heavens yellow.

Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles.

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