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A discovery at an ancient temple divides experts over possible links to the city's legendary founder.

Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory

The world’s largest financier of fossil fuels has warned clients that the climate crisis threatens the survival of humanity and that the planet is on an unsustainable trajectory, according to a leaked document.

The JP Morgan report on the economic risks of human-caused global heating said climate policy had to change or else the world faced irreversible consequences.

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The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including chinstrap penguins and a koala up a tree

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Researchers claim it could be used to kill some of the world's deadliest bacteria.

A former employee of US-based offset registry administrator APX Inc will oversee the international expansion of CBL Markets as several global carbon markets seek to launch next year, the trading platform announced Friday.

Residents in the Calder Valley are always on high alert – but for many, it’s a price worth paying

Kelly Ramsden hardly sleeps a wink when heavy rain is forecast. Last Saturday, when the army was deployed to Yorkshire’s Calder Valley to build flood defences in preparation for Storm Dennis, the 39-year-old was up half the night fretting.

She doesn’t have to wait for flood sirens to know if she needs to switch from slippers to wellies. The window of her attic bedroom looks up towards the moors and she can gauge how soggy her kitchen will be by the amount of water rushing down the hillside towards the cobbled alley at the back of her house. From her living room, she can guess whether the River Calder, speeding along just 15 metres away behind a waist-high wall, is going to cause problems downstream in Hebden Bridge or Mytholmroyd.

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Ocean Conservancy seeks a senior manager for its climate program in Washington DC. The position will help build, shape, and execute its work, which will include creating and implementing climate and ocean-climate initiatives and increasing demand for action.

EUAs dipped back towards €25 early on Friday amid continued moderate auction demand and as financial markets swooned on a resurgence of Covid-19 coronavirus cases.

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

Offset developers have sold over 340,000 carbon credits to Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) so far in February, while the Clean Energy Regulator this week issued nearly 280,000 new units.

All new projects that enable fossil fuel growth are an affront to our state of climate emergency. It is a disgrace Canada is considering them

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Freeland,

The year 2020 has already become one defined by devastating impacts of climate change. While we celebrated the ambition of countries – including Canada – that demanded the enshrinement of 1.5C in the Paris climate agreement, it is increasingly clear that even this is a compromise with deeply tragic implications for the world’s climate-vulnerable regions.

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Animal’s unique adaptation to low-oxygen life can be basis for protection, say researchers

Wolves living in the Himalayas are to be recognised as a subspecies of the grey wolf, with researchers predicting that the animals will soon be declared a unique species.

The wolves surviving at high altitudes in Nepal and on the Tibetan plateau possess a genetic adaptation to cope with the lack of oxygen which is not found in any other wolf, a study reports.

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Australia’s main opposition party, Labor, on Friday said it would set a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 if it returns to office, without the use of Kyoto carryover credits, but declined to reveal any policy details.

This government’s response to the climate crisis appears to be: some of you will have to fend for yourselves

As British high streets and farm fields lie under water this week, Boris Johnson has repeatedly been urged to put on his wellies, go out and listen to flood victims.

So far though, his response has been more about tin ears than rubber boots: during Storm Dennis the prime minister was reportedly holed up in a 17th-century mansion in the Kent countryside.

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Wood burning stoves and coal fires are the single largest sources of PM2.5

The sale of the most polluting fuels burned in household stoves and open fires will be phased out from next year to clean up the air, the government has said.

Plans to phase out the sale of house coal and wet wood have been confirmed as part of efforts to tackle tiny particle pollutants known as PM2.5, which can penetrate deep into lungs and the blood and cause serious health problems.

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Anthony Albanese confirms Labor will adopt net zero-emissions by 2050 target for Australia, with no "absurd nonsense" carryover credits, but still no mention of vital interim targets.

The post Albanese delivers half a climate policy with “no cheating” – but no interim targets, either appeared first on RenewEconomy.

W.A. parliamentary inquiry finds state uniquely placed to become global leader in renewable microgrid development and export, but only with the right policy and regulatory settings.

The post Western Australia “uniquely” placed to be microgrid superpower, says report appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Cannon-Brookes says it is clear that Australia has the technologies to reach net zero emissions. So do other experts, but not the federal government.

The post “We have the technologies now”- Cannon-Brookes busts open Coalition myth appeared first on RenewEconomy.