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Scientists at Natural History Museum honour teenager’s ‘outstanding contribution’

A tiny species of beetle discovered more than 50 years ago has been named after environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London have officially called the insect Nelloptodes gretae to honour the 16-year-old Swedish activist’s “outstanding contribution” in raising global awareness of climate change.

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California’s cap-and-trade programme would experience minimal impacts if the US Department of Justice (DOJ) prevailed in its challenge of the state's WCI linkage with Quebec, lawyers told Carbon Pulse.

Agriculture in the firing line of Senate Estimates, Government receives advice on drought policy, Investigations follow release of northern Basin flow report and Kimberley town breaks a world record.

European carbon drifted lower on Friday to end the week with a 3.5% loss, amid a continuation of sliding energy prices, weak EUA auction demand, and Brexit uncertainty.

It's only as big as a tea bag, plays dead if you pick it up, and landowners don't even know they have an endangered animal in their backyard.

Russian scientists tracking eagles got huge SMS bills when some birds flew to Iran and Pakistan.

Oregon lawmakers will not alter their plans to pass a WCI-modelled carbon market bill next year in light of this week's US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit against California’s cap-and-trade linkage with Quebec, but the state could forego linking with the Canadian province as the legal challenge shakes out.

The supersonic car completes a gentle run across the Hakskeen lakebed in South Africa.

Cuddling foxes, venomous sea snakes and a 1,000-year-old oak tree

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Officials in Worcester say the city is overrun with gulls, and that the only solution is a sanctioned shoot. But experts suggest there could be better answers

‘Seagulls kill dog then return to attack toddler two weeks later.” “‘Psycho’ seagull ‘pecked and clawed’ at student.” “British seagulls are turning cannibal and EATING each other.” If the newspaper headlines are anything to go by, gulls are a growing threat to the British population. No longer satisfied with stealing chips from tourists at seaside towns, the birds are attacking everyone from unsuspecting holidaymakers to small children. And who could forget the grizzly tale of Gizmo the chihuahua, cruelly snatched away by a gull in Devon never to be seen again – that is, until a furry leg turned up a few weeks later. It is no wonder public opinion has turned against them.

The situation has turned so sour in Worcester that the city council is now proposing a gull cull. The council is considering applying for a licence to shoot the birds, with one councillor saying it is the only way to stop residents from “needlessly suffering”.

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) refilled its coffers on Friday as a group of mostly wealthy nations upped their pledges to keep the UN’s flagship climate finance vehicle afloat, despite the US refusing to pay up. 

The trading arm of French utility Engie has lost its main carbon analyst, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Conservationists in the Falkland Islands are concerned by the impact of Brexit on the environment.

If SUV drivers were a nation, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions

Growing demand for SUVs was the second-largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions from 2010 to 2018, a new analysis has found.

In that period, SUVs doubled their global market share from 17% to 39% and their annual emissions rose to more than 700 megatonnes of CO2, more than the yearly total emissions of the UK and the Netherlands combined.

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Oil major BP has made a $5 million investment into a US-based developer to help grow its forestry offset business for voluntary carbon markets, the company announced Friday.

The nelloptodes gretae - named after the teenage climate activist - is less than 1mm long.

Within the Economic Research team, the Emissions Market Analyst will be especially responsible for the analysis of emissions markets.

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

The Global Environmental Products (GEP) Project Manager will be an integral part of the GEP team supporting the Senior Project Manager in the management of carbon offset projects and providing project and portfolio due diligence and technical risk management expertise for all future primary projects.

‘Total surprise’ discovery overturns conventional understanding of rivers

In the turbid, frigid waters roaring from the glaciers of Canada’s high Arctic, researchers have made a surprising discovery: for decades, the northern rivers secretly pulled carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a rate faster than the Amazon rainforest.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, flip the conventional understanding of rivers, which are largely viewed as sources of carbon emissions.

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