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Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton discusses Australia's Renewable Energy Target.

Alterations to California’s Tropical Forest Standard (TFS) this summer did little to change supporters’ and opponents’ views of the possible precursor to jurisdictional REDD offsetting in domestic and international carbon markets, according to public comments released late last week.

The massive ice sheet covering Greenland may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists say.

The Clean Energy Regulator has declared Australia’s 2020 renewable energy target to be officially met, after the Cattle Hill wind project in Tasmania took the total amount of committed wind, solar and other renewable projects to more than 6,400MW. That’s the capacity that the CER estimates is required to meet the 2020 target of 33,000GWh...

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All plants take up carbon dioxide when they grow, but when they are harvested or cut down, they release the greenhouse gas back into the atmosphere. Sebastian Leuzinger, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia is one of the sunniest and windiest countries on the planet, but emissions are still rising. How do you justify that? Tim Baxter, Fellow - Melbourne Law School; Senior Researcher - Climate Council; Associate - Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

‘The fight goes on,’ say activists after ignoring injunction at Cuadrilla site in Lancashire

Three anti-fracking activists have been given suspended prison sentences after breaking a ban on demonstrations which their lawyers argued “severely curtails the right to protest”.

The trio were convicted after ignoring an injunction brought by the energy company Cuadrilla to protect its Preston New Road site near Blackpool, Lancashire.

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Prince Harry has faced flak for his carbon footprint but others face similar dilemma

Their style could hardly be more different, though their aims are the same: as Greta Thunberg sailed into New York last week on a low-carbon high-tech yacht to highlight the climate crisis, Prince Harry faced flak for taking private jets for short-hop breaks while campaigning against global heating. But the contrast between the two reflects broader dilemmas in the environmental movement.

On Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex invited further ridicule as he flew into Amsterdam – a direct Eurostar train from London takes three hours and 41 minutes – to unveil a new initiative for the tourism industry, Travalyst, aiming to reduce the impact of holidaymakers – while encouraging travel.

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Market participants largely see a bearish outcome for the upcoming RGGI Q3 auction due to weak quarterly emissions data, complementary state-led GHG-cutting efforts, and limited near-term mechanisms to tighten the Northeast US carbon market's supply-demand balance.

Nasa's Artemis mission plans to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon.

The tsunami hazard from volcanoes that collapse into the sea may have been underestimated as a result.

Australian government agencies are gearing up to try and stimulate increased supply of carbon credits, backed by a carbon industry that despite the relative lack of demand is concerned over its flagging ability to develop new offset projects.

EUAs fell to their lowest in 2.5 months early on Tuesday in a choppy market on high alert for Brexit developments and weighed down by bearish technical signals.

Our unique mammals are on the endangered list. Their habitats are consumed by expanding cities and destroyed by tree clearing and climate change. There's also an increased risk of disease. Join the scientists on a mission to save them.

It is the first time physical evidence of the 1651 Battle of Worcester has been discovered.

Commemorations were held today where, 30 years ago, Prime Minister Bob Hawke launched Landcare at the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers.

NZUs traded up to NZ$25 ($15.73) on Tuesday for the first time since late May as the bullish outlook from imminent regulatory changes outweighed restrictions from the fixed price option.

Hills Shire council said it had received 40 complaints over three years about the magpie, and several people had been injured

A local council in Sydney’s north west has said a decision to shoot dead a “particularly aggressive magpie” that had allegedly swooped and injured people for years was “not taken lightly”.

The Hills Shire council had received 40 complaints over the past three years, with confirmed injuries, including people sent to hospital as a result of being swooped by the magpie on Old Windsor Road in Bella Vista.

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Can the palm oil industry improve its impact on the environment?

Depths of lakes that hold about 90% of US’s freshwater spiking to record levels, from 14in to nearly 3ft above long-term averages

This summer, as rain relentlessly poured down on the Great Lakes region, Detroit declared a rare state of emergency. The swollen Detroit River had spilled into the low-lying Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood – an event not seen near this scale since 1986.

Volunteers sandbagged the area as the city’s overwhelmed sewer system spilled raw sewage into the river, which connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Across the channel from Jefferson Chalmers, water damaged the historic boathouse on Belle Isle, an iconic 982-acre island park that remains partly shut down because of flooding.

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