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A reconnaissance flight in the South Atlantic obtains spectacular imagery of the giant iceberg A68a.

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One of Apple’s co-founders has joined forces with an carbon market entrepreneur to launch a $1 billion blockchain company that tokenises energy efficiency measures.

California's free carbon permit distributions to industrial emitters declined by nearly 13% for 2021, with refineries accounting for the largest chunk of the year-on-year difference, according to data published by regulator ARB on Friday afternoon.

Compliance entities unwound their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions following the publication of the final 2020 WCI auction results, while financial entities added to their holdings, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

The ABC’s Graham Creed says new climate change research could ‘fill a big gap’ in public understanding

Graham Creed has spent 30 years with his head in synoptic charts, and for the past 20 he’s been on television letting Australians know if it’s going to be hot, cold, wet or dry.

But for the past two years, usually at the end of months with heatwaves and extreme temperatures, Creed has been adding extra information to his weather segments.

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Astonishing rock paintings discovered in Colombia hold a lesson for today’s rainforest

In the past week, remarkable images of ancient cave art have hit the headlines: rock paintings made in South America around 12,000 years ago. The art, created on rock faces in the Serranía de la Lindosa, on the northern edge of the Colombian Amazon, is a riot of ochre-coloured geometrical pattern, handprints, and images of animals and humans. Until recent excavations, the works of art had been unknown to the international community. Their exuberant creativity will soon be revealed to a broad audience in the UK thanks to the Channel 4 series Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon.

The people who made these works of art were, it is believed, among the earliest humans to occupy the region, after migrations across what is now the Bering Strait some 25,000 years ago. Preliminary study of the iconography of the art has led scholars to speculate that among the deer, tapirs, alligators, bats, serpents, turtles and porcupines, long-extinct megafauna are also represented: mastodons, American ice-age horses, giant sloths, camelids.

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The pick of this week’s best flora and fauna images, including a festive robin and a moth trap

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The California carbon market likely needs to adjust its allowance supply to drive future emissions reductions, while state regulator ARB should evaluate the need to continue distributing free permits to refineries, according to an annual watchdog report. 

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The RGGI Q4 auction settled at a premium to the secondary market for the second straight quarter, with compliance entities continuing to aggressively buy allowances, according to results published Friday.

EUAs hit a new 2.5-month high on Friday, surpassing the €30 mark touched earlier in the week as wider markets lifted on Brexit deal hopes and bullish stimulus sentiment.

Czechia’s Coal Commission voted Friday to recommend that the government to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2038, a move criticised by climate activists as a “Paris-incompatible” target.

Witness describes damage to mile-long stretch of Lugg as egregious act of ‘ecological vandalism’

Police and environment agency staff have moved in to stop further damage being done to a protected river, after what one witness described as one of the most egregious acts of ecological vandalism in 25 years.

A mile-long stretch of the River Lugg outside Kingsland, near Leominster in Herefordshire, has been flattened by a bulldozer. Trees have been felled, the river straightened and the river bed damaged.

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A Japanese spacecraft is set to deliver its precious sample cache to the Australian outback.

Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Guangdong province continues to tighten ETS settings for companies while Fujian has again declined to reveal its total handouts, according to 2020 allocation plans released Friday that include coal power plants, raising questions about whether the facilities will be excluded from the national market. 

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has terminated contracts with two projects that had been expected to deliver almost 550,000 offsets to the ERF, while new credits issuances rebounded after a couple of quiet weeks, data showed.