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Switzerland’s agency tasked with acquiring Paris-era carbon credits is advancing its sourcing efforts despite uncertainties domestically and on global rules covering emission trade after 2020.

European carbon prices rebounded on Tuesday following Monday’s sell-off, though some traders grew more bearish by the light volumes and lack of sustained buying.

Following three years of decline, US carbon emissions spiked in 2018, according to new research.

US energy-related CO2 emissions rose markedly in 2018 as natural gas-fired power output outpaced both renewables growth and declines in coal use and as other sectors ramped up production, analysts said on Tuesday.

Twenty-two people have been hospitalised this summer with Irukandji stings, which can cause brain haemorrhages

The deadly Irukandji jellyfish is likely to spread further down Australia’s east coast as temperatures warm, an expert says, after twice as many Queenslanders were stung by the species this season than usual.

Twenty-two people have been hospitalised this summer with Irukandji stings – which are so severe they can cause brain haemorrhages and a debilitating sensation of impending doom, known as Irukandji syndrome.

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People who instal solar from April will have to give away surplus until scheme launches

Households with solar panels are to get a guaranteed payment for excess electricity they export to the grid – but there will be a hiatus when people are expected to give it away for free.

Energy minister Claire Perry said on Tuesday she would legislate for a new market that will make energy firms compete to offer solar homes the best price for any unused energy they export.

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Green party MP presses Veolia to accept more plastic waste

The recycling company Veolia has been accused of refusing to adapt a 30-year contract to allow Brighton and Hove council to collect more plastic waste as local authorities struggle to meet a national target of 50%.

Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP for Brighton Pavilion, said the company had refused requests to change the contract. As a result, attempts by the city to increase the collection of plastic waste had failed.

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Take a look at the 210ft (64m) mass of congealed fat and rubbish clogging up Sidmouth's sewers.

Project to utilise the quarter of a million gallons of hot water that flows through Roman baths begins

Work to install eco-friendly heating in Bath Abbey using hot water from the city’s Roman baths is beginning.

Contractors are surveying the great Roman drain, which carries steaming water from Bath’s hot springs to the River Avon, as part of a project to use the springs to warm the nearby abbey that starts on Tuesday.

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Last year’s 3.4% jump in emissions is the largest since 2010 recession and second largest gain in more than two decades

A new analysis shows US greenhouse gas levels are increasing as the Trump administration unravels efforts to slow climate change.

Carbon emissions rose sharply last year, increasing 3.4%, according to new estimates from the economic firm Rhodium Group. That year’s jump in emissions is the biggest since the bounce back from the recession in 2010. It is the second largest gain in more than two decades.

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Eight weeks needed to remove mass of fat, oil and wet-wipes from sewer in Sidmouth, Devon

A block of hardened fat, oil and wet-wipes longer than six double-decker buses has been discovered in a sewer metres from the sea in a popular Devon resort town.

It will take workers eight weeks to cut up and remove the 64-metre “fatberg” from the sewer beneath The Esplanade in Sidmouth.

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Female Magellanic penguins are more likely to become stranded in South America because they travel further.

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EU utility profit margins have been shielded from rising CO2 prices by power price gains, but this will fade from next year as their forward hedges begin to expire, ratings agency Fitch said on Monday.

The unprecedented wave of stings brings the number of people caught by the so-called "jellyfish armada" that's struck the state since the start of December to more than 22,000.

Twelve Massachusetts companies submitted bids for allowances for the December auction of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) carbon market, with an undisclosed number receiving credits from the first sale, officials announced Monday.

The Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Program seeks a highly motivated, analytically rigorous Policy Analyst to join EDF’s Washington, DC or Boulder office. 

Environment America is seeking a climate change policy fellow for a two-year programme in Denver.

Seas absorb 90% of climate change’s energy as new research reveals vast heating over past 150 years

Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years, according to analysis of new research.

More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the seas, with just a few per cent heating the air, land and ice caps respectively. The vast amount of energy being added to the oceans drives sea-level rise and enables hurricanes and typhoons to become more intense.

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