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The first female gardeners at Kew had to garden in bloomers, but in some ways were ahead of their time.

WA's Environmental Protection Authority sets "higher bar" for fossil fuel projects in W.A. to deal with their emissions. Coalition calls it a sledge-hammer.

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Millions of diseased trees near buildings, roads and railways will have to be cut down, it is warned.

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Three US states join shift to decarbonise their state’s electricity supply, with two focusing on 100% renewable energy.

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New images show cracking in the bricks which make up the core of nuclear reactors at Hunterston B Power Station.

How easy is it to reduce our food waste? Two students have been finding out.

Adopting an ambitious emissions cap and allowance bank adjustment would unfairly burden Virginia as it looks to join the northeast US RGGI carbon market next year, utility Dominion Energy wrote in public comments.

Several wealthy EU nations are mulling introducing or raising air travel taxes to help tackle the sector’s emissions, which are still rising despite having been covered by the bloc's ETS since 2012.

In its next Nasa test, the new crew capsule will re-enter the atmosphere for an Atlantic splashdown.

The US EPA made an unannounced and fundamental change to its methodology used to grant compliance waivers under the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) that allowed for an increasing number of companies to receive exemptions to the biofuels credit market, a new court filing alleges.

Baseload power is already under threat in Australia, with new data showing the scale of the transition in the NEM, and how radically different the supply mix will look in the decades ahead.

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Overwhelming support for Melbourne to declare a climate emergency will be a shock to those climate advocacy organisations that have steadfastly refused to use such language.

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A surge in buying after the February WCI auction spurred higher California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices this week, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) fell by double-digits ahead of the programme's first quarterly sale of the year.

The Dutch government will close one of the country's five coal-fired power plants next year - four years earlier than originally planned - to help reach its court-enforced deeper climate goals, broadcaster RTL reported on Thursday.

Ten US companies and organisations have formed a consortium to advance a voluntary market programme for promoting soil carbon sequestration and water conservation in agriculture, with more developments underway to scale up nationally in the next few years.

EUAs surged back above €23 late on Thursday to eye their recent highs, dragging up power prices despite falls across other financial markets on weak ECB economic forecasts.

With heatwaves, droughts and fires all on the rise, the federal government is urged to merge its separate strategies on disaster resilience and climate readiness. Robert Glasser, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

How Elon Musk's Crew Dragon spaceship goes to, and returns from, the International Space Station.

Civil War-era fortifications have been discovered just below the prison's recreation yard, a study shows.