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The Australotitan grew up to 30m (96ft) long and is among the largest dinosaurs found worldwide.

Indigenous people lived sustainably in the tropical Amazon rainforest for more than 5,000 years, a study shows.

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Woodside Energy has set a 2050 net zero target and interim goals by 2025 and 2030 for its Pluto LNG project in Western Australia, which it will meet through technology investments and carbon offsets, the company said Tuesday.

Australia and other rich countries are pushing gas projects over wind and solar in global south, but will likely end up as stranded assets.

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California Carbon Offset (CCO) prices have risen recently amid an uptick of buying interest, but continue to lag behind significant price increases in the California Carbon Allowance (CCA) market.

The British Columbia government last week published a public consultation for its methane management offset protocol (MMOP), with several different project types included under the proposal.

Rather than considering the job done, Tasmania should seize opportunities including renewable energy, net-zero industrial exports and forest preservation. Rupert Posner, Systems Lead - Sustainable Economies, ClimateWorks Australia Simon Graham, Senior Analyst, ClimateWorks Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Don't share your toilet with your pet, or treat your toilet like a flushable garbage bin. It could lead to dangerous diseases, and clog sewer pipes. Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The bdelloid rotifer, frozen under permafrost, may be able survive indefinitely, research suggests.

EUAs rose as much as 4% to touch €52 on Monday, climbing in a disrupted session that saw exchange operator ICE halt trade and cancel early deals following technical issues linked to the migration of contracts to its Endex platform.

Paper is based on 40 years of record-keeping involving 40,000 dead birds, started after an offhand remark

Turning off building lights at night can save migrating birds from crashing into buildings, a study based on decades of research has shown.

Scientists found that on nights when half the windows of a large building in Chicago were darkened, there were 11 times fewer bird collisions during spring migration and six times fewer collisions during autumn migration than when all the windows were lit.

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The EU’s energy-intensive industries made a total €50 billion in additional profits from the bloc’s carbon market between 2008-19, a report released on Monday found, flagging a “market failure” in the EU ETS ahead of key market reforms due next month.

Voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) eligible for the international aviation offset system CORSIA reached record highs this week, as traders maintained that a months-long trend of demand outpacing supply was providing support in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).  

US biofuel credit (RIN) values notched yet another all-time record on Monday, with Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) market participants pointing to a continued acceleration in soybean oil and corn prices with no end in sight.

Connecticut will not participate in the Transportation and Climate Initiative Programme (TCI-P) after the legislature failed to authorise the proposed fuel sector cap-and-trade scheme, leaving the initiative with three jurisdictions.

CSIRO and Ampol launch new hydrogen storage start-up aiming to deliver zero emissions storage to off-grid and remote applications.

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Heat waves and booming industrial production are expected to cause power shortages in a number of Chinese provinces this summer, putting the nation’s emissions trading scheme to an early test of whether it is able to control spikes in greenhouse gas emissions.

The Amazon founder will take the first human flight launched by his space company, Blue Origin.

Failing, heavily subsidized private oil companies enjoy the profits of oil extraction while the rest of us pay in tax dollars, human rights abuses, and an unlivable climate

It has been a bad month for big oil. A Dutch court just ruled that Shell must cut its carbon pollution by 45% by 2030. The court’s decision has rightly been celebrated: it is a much more stringent requirement than the ineffective regulations imposed to date. Meanwhile, shareholders are waging rebellions at various oil giants – ExxonMobil shareholders won two seats on the board to pressure the oil company towards a greener strategy, and shareholders at Chevron and ConocoPhillips passed nonbinding resolutions pressuring the companies to disclose their lobbying efforts and emissions amounts.

Private oil and gas companies are finally up against the wall. Shell has promised to appeal the Dutch court decision, but oil prices went negative last month and put companies on bankruptcy notice, and last week the International Energy Agency said to stop digging. Politicians have floated the idea of oil and gas magnates becoming “carbon management companies” as a way for those companies to have a “future in a low-carbon world” while retaining control over oil, gas, and profit in a planet increasingly aware of and hostile to their emissions-generating activity.

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