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In this role you will be managing and implementing public advisory engagements related to carbon pricing and climate policy from sourcing to implementation. Clients you will work with include multilateral development banks, governments and international development organisations. In addition, you will contribute to South Pole’s strategy and services in the field of carbon pricing and climate policy.

Scientists warn the impact of climate change may be as large as economic recessions, which are known to increase self-harm

Rising temperatures are linked to increasing rates of suicide, according to a large new study. The researchers warn that the impact of climate change on suicides may be as significant as economic recessions, which are known to increase rates of self-harm.

The links between mental health and global warming have not been widely researched but the new work analysed temperature and suicides across the US and Mexico in recent decades. It found that the rate of suicide rose by 0.7% in the US and by 2.1% in Mexico when the average monthly temperature rose by 1C.

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German engineering students set a record as their pod hits 457km/h in a hyperloop tunnel test.

Ofgem outlines measures to ensure more drivers can use the electricity network

British electric car drivers face having to pay more to power their car if they refuse to shift their charging to off-peak times, in a move designed to lessen their burden on the electricity network.

There are currently 160,000 plug-in cars on UK roads but rapid growth means their impact on the energy system must be managed carefully, said energy regulator Ofgem.

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The Senior Program Officer is a senior technical role within the American Carbon Registry (ACR), providing leadership on all aspects of registry services management.

International photographic competition, which runs in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, awards special prize for the best close-up images

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In the troposphere, scientists detected a human-caused signal in the seasonal cycle

We know that humans are causing Earth’s climate to change. It used to be that “climate change” mostly referred to increasing temperatures near the Earth’s surface, but increasingly, climate change has come to mean so much more. It means warming oceans, melting ice, changing weather patterns, increased storms, and warming in other places.

A recent study has just been published that finds ‘fingerprints’ of human-caused warming someplace most of us don’t think about – in the higher atmosphere. Not only that, but these scientists have found changes to the seasonal climate – how much the temperature varies from winter to summer to winter – and the changes they found matched expectations.

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EU carbon prices hit a seven-year high for the third consecutive session on Monday as the day’s auction cleared at a rare premium to the secondary market.

Managing rabbit populations isn't as simple as declaring 'open season'. Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide Miguel Lurgi, Postdoctoral research fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Nissan calls on governments, automakers and other key stakeholders to work together to drive the shift to electric vehicles in Asia and Oceania.

Host of ABC sleeper hit of 2017 reflects achievements of season one, and what still needs to change

Who would have thought a show about garbage could be so compelling?

The success of last year’s sleeper hit War on Waste was a happy surprise to its presenter, Craig Reucassel, and the team behind the ABC TV show – not least because of how responsive audiences were to many of its suggestions. Sales of reusable coffee cups shot up, worm farm suppliers struggled to keep up with demand and the #BantheBag campaign helped to spur supermarkets to get rid of single-use plastic bags.

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Australia's corporate renewable energy power purchase agreement market is taking off. But do gentailers care?

The Banks Group mine is going ahead despite fears it will devastate the local environment

From the end of her garden June Davison can see and hear the heavy machinery stripping away the valley. Soon there will be explosions and dust to add to the 12 hour thrum of engines as the coal is stripped from below the earth.

After 40 years of local opposition that has helped keep this area of the Derwent valley in County Durham untouched, open-cast mining has begun between the villages of Dipton, Leadgate and Medomsley, once home to a deeply entrenched mining community around what was South Medomsley colliery.

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For those who don't want to take AEMO's word for it, UK steel billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has a message on the future of energy generation in Australia: It is no longer cheaper to make power from coal than it is from renewables, "and we will prove it."

23 July 1918 This beautiful weed attracts the summer brood of tortoiseshell butterflies just out from the chrysalis

The ragwort, a really beautiful weed, is out along the lane sides, but, perhaps thanks to women’s labour, is not over-abundant in our local fields. In Wales, where the fields are seldom as clean as they are in Cheshire, big rank ragworts and thistles dot the pastures, and often rise above the crops. The ragwort attracts the summer brood of small tortoiseshell butterflies just out from the chrysalis, but these showy flies visit it for its sweets and not as a food plant for the caterpillars. No one can class the tortoiseshell amongst destructive insects, for it feeds upon the common nettle, and thus helps to destroy a troublesome and prolific weed.

Related: Damned as dangerous but ragwort is full of life

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New Energy Solar has entered into binding agreements to acquire the Beryl Solar Farm (Beryl) from a subsidiary of First Solar, Inc.

The Department has published a new Threat Abatement Plan for the impacts of marine debris on the vertebrate wildlife of Australia’s coasts and oceans.

The Department has published a new Threat Abatement Plan for the impacts of marine debris on the vertebrate wildlife of Australia’s coasts and oceans.

Despite the Coalition cheer-leading, data from AEMO and the Chief Economist shows quite graphically that thermal coal is in structural decline – in Australia and globally.

An archaeological dig unearths an ancient campfire; we go gardening in marginal country; young Rory has his heart set on a music career; and Charlie goes truffle hunting in the alps.