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Global food production is under threat from the spread of carbon projects that interfere with the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples worldwide, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America, research released Monday has found.

States are once again turning to desalination to secure freshwater supplies. The problem is, they’re often choosing the wrong spot for ecosystems and fisheries Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The commonwealth had state electrical vehicle taxes struck down in court. Now reform is stuck in the slow lane

Tax reform is hard. It creates winners and losers.

But there are some taxes that seek to correct unfairness and share the load more evenly.

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Frantic efforts are being made to save the endangered mountain chicken frog, native to just two Caribbean islands.

Alok Shukla has spent years fighting to protect a key Indian forest from mining companies.

On her @brutalistplants Instagram page, Olivia Broome collects photographs that combine the angular shapes of raw concrete with the greenery of the natural world. “I really enjoy the aesthetic of eco-brutalism and tropical modernism,” she says. “I love mezzanines and ziggurats, and when you pair them with plants it softens them up. Brutalism can be this quite harsh, austere architecture style, but with nature involved, it balances it all out.” Now collected in a book, the images bring together buildings from across the globe, from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka, London to Mexico. “It’s a pleasant movement that people can get behind, especially in smaller spaces and modern cities – it’s nice to fill them with plants and nature.”

• Brutalist Plants (Hoxton Mini Press, £20) will be published on Thursday

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Allowances prices in Turkiye’s ETS are expected to eventually mirror those for EUAs in the EU carbon market, meaning they could climb to as high as €150/tonne by the mid-2030s, experts said this week.

Fears Climate Change Committee’s advice not to allow carryover from last carbon budget will be ignored

Ministers are considering plans to weaken the UK’s carbon-cutting plans by allowing the unused portion of the last carbon budget to be carried over to the next period.

This would go against the strong recommendation of the government’s statutory climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee.

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Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

• World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns
• Climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Global heating is likely to soar past internationally agreed limits, according to a Guardian survey of hundreds of leading climate experts, bringing catastrophic heatwaves, floods and storms.

Only 6% of the respondents thought the 1.5C limit could be achieved, and this would require extraordinarily fast, radical action to halt and reverse the world’s rising emissions from fossil fuel burning.

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A conservationist is on a mission to keep a Welsh island a sanctuary for native red squirrels.

A Tennessee-based direct air capture (DAC) company launched a pilot facility Wednesday, its initial deployment of an approach that the firm’s CEO told Carbon Pulse offers a more energy efficient alternative in the emerging industry.

Democratic lawmakers in Virginia and the state's Republican governor reportedly reached a yet-to-be-published budget deal Thursday that is expected to exclude proposed language on rejoining the regional power sector cap-and-trade programme.

Compliance entities have added to their holdings across North American carbon markets, while managed money continue to reduce vintage 2024 positions in most schemes in favour of longer-dated California Carbon Allowances (CCAs), according to weekly data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

In a revolutionary approach, scientists are hoping that modifying the marsupial’s genes to resist cane toads’ toxin will save it from extinction

In a laboratory in the University of Melbourne earlier this year, PhD student Pierre Ibri was running an experiment that could prove to be a critical step in an audacious plan to save Australia’s endangered northern quoll.

In plastic trays were groups of tissue cells of another Australian marsupial – the common and mouse-like fat-tailed dunnart – that he was subjecting to the toxin of the cane toad, an invasive amphibian that has cut a swathe through populations of native animals in Australia’s north.

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Gigawatt scale solar and battery project near large coal fired power station gets green tick from federal government.

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A solar storm of this scale can cause disruptions to infrastructure such as the power grid.

The local wildlife trust hopes the tunnels will boost the reptile's numbers by encouraging mating.

Retirement of coal- and lignite-fired power plants by EU member states could lead to as many as 160 million EUAs being voluntarily cancelled by 2030, with even more set to be deleted after that date, forcing prices higher as supply is removed from the market, according to an analyst.

A Mexican standards body has launched a new version of an international offsetting standard adapted to the national context as the country moves to pass new transparency regulations governing the voluntary carbon market (VCM), according to a local media report.

The Los Lagos region of Chile aims to implement Chile’s first offsetting exchange to facilitate the purchase of carbon credits and decarbonise local industries, per a local paper from the city of Osorno.