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Both human-induced and natural disturbances in Europe's forests have significantly increased since the late 20th century, a study has found, revealing a complex interplay that might influence future forest management and policy decisions.

A global insurance broker has introduced an new insurance solutions service to help clients navigate the complexities of decarbonisation initiatives, offering protection against buying carbon credits.

Soil carbon developer AgriProve has been issued over 9,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), generated at two of its projects in Queensland.

One of Japan’s biggest conglomerates has teamed up with a developer to offer a compensation insurance arrangement for forestry J-Credit projects in case of natural disasters.

The Australian opposition Coalition have declared it will get rid of the country’s 2030 emissions reduction target, arguing the goal is unachievable, and by extension withdraw from the UN’s Paris Agreement if it wins the next election.

The New York State assembly passed Friday a bill establishing a climate change adaptation fund to be financed by fossil fuel companies, which now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) signature to become law.

A Virginia state regulator granted utility Dominion Energy’s request to withdraw a RGGI rider reinstated last year to recoup programme costs following the state’s withdrawal from the Northeast carbon market at the end of 2023.

Governments could put the world on track to nearly triple emission reductions by 2035 compared to the current trajectory, if their updated Paris Agreement pledges take in account current technological progress, existing national policies, and the commitments made in Dubai last year, according to research published on Monday.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed that his Coalition's push for nuclear energy is inextricably linked with his party's implacable denial of climate science.

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The need to restore native vegetation is clear, but we can’t properly repair nature without good, diverse supplies of native seeds. Samantha Ellen Andres, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Joe Atkinson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, Aarhus University Rachael Gallagher, Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Parliament elections delivered their verdict on Sunday evening, with hardline conservatives and the far-right making strides as expected, leaving the Greens and nationalist groups as potential kingmakers during open-ended talks opening now to form a new EU executive.

The warm winter and wet spring spawned a mollusc army. Now they’ve invaded my brassicas, I’m at war with my conscience

It’s the beginning of summer, yet as I type these words, I’m watching sheets of rain coming down at an angle as my chickens cower under their hen house. Aside from a few gloriously sunny days, it feels like the rain hasn’t stopped since the middle of last autumn. While most of my plants appreciate the moisture, the wetter than usual weather has led to some issues in my veg patch.

Our heavy clay soil is more compacted than ever and the slugs and snails now reign, busily mowing down the young plants I raised from seed and entrusted to the veg beds. They came for the lettuces first, which didn’t survive their first night in the soil. Then they came for the brassicas – the radishes, the kohlrabi and the red Russian kale – stripping their leaves back to the scrawny mid-rib, destroying the centre so there was no chance of them growing back. After I convinced myself that they wouldn’t go for strong flavours, they devoured the coriander and dill seedlings that I’d planted, too. All the crops that I’d hoped to be harvesting by now are nowhere to be seen.

Claire Ratinon is an organic food grower and writer

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It appears some people have learned absolutely nothing from 20 years of climate wars.

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Landowners with properties near new transmission lines and towers could be in line for payments of up to $40,000 under a new government proposal.

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Federal government says opposition is saying ‘white is black’ following Peter Dutton’s comments to News Corp on Paris climate agreement

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The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has savaged the Coalition after a frontbencher insisted the opposition was “absolutely committed” to the Paris climate agreement a day after leader Peter Dutton foreshadowed he would scrap Labor’s target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030.

Dutton told the Weekend Australian he would oppose the legislated 2030 target – a 43% cut compared with 2005 levels – at the next election, declaring there was “no sense in ­signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”.

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Tony Wolfe says he has been advocating for renewables for about 15 years, "because the writing's been on the wall that coal is going to end."

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Peter Dutton's threat to pull out of the Paris agreement while the country waits two decades for nuclear would make Australia a "global laughing stock", activists say.

The post “Global laughing stock:” Dutton’s threat to tear up Paris climate target labeled a disaster appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up?

A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up?

Woman, 45, sustained ‘significant trauma’ and had part of arm amputated after one attack, and two teens were injured in another

Two separate shark attacks at Florida beaches wounded three swimmers, including two teenagers, prompting some popular vacation spots to temporarily close, according to authorities.

A shark bit a 45-year-old woman at about 1.20pm on Friday while she swam at Watersound beach, along the coast of Walton county, Florida, in the eastern part of the state.

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