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A total of 11 entities have now applied for small refiner exemptions (SREs) from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for the 2018 compliance year, the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) website showed Thursday.

RGGI allowance prices found support at higher levels this week, while California carbon allowance prices continued to slide on the secondary market.

Fisheries Queensland to set baited lines in Cid Harbour after separate attacks on same day

Drum lines will be set after two tourists were critically injured in separate shark attacks at a harbour in the Whitsunday Islands in north Queensland.

A 12-year-old New Zealand girl holidaying with her father and sister received a life-threatening wound to her leg on Thursday afternoon at Cid Harbour.

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China's Beidou is being used in everything from ploughing to precision missiles, but can it go global?

The New South Wales government has turned its back on plans to create sanctuary zones covering 2.4% of waters around Sydney, despite evidence that these 'no-take' areas are crucial for protecting fish. David Booth, Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Technology Sydney John Turnbull, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Iranian photographer Saeed Mohammadzadeh has been named Ciwem’s environmental photographer of the year. End Floating, his haunting image of a beached boat on the solidified salty remains of Urmia Lake, illustrates how climate change, water mismanagement and drought have decimated the landscape

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Scientists have identified the earliest known animal in the geological record.

More than half a million California Carbon Offsets may be stuck in frozen Ontario registry accounts after Premier Doug Ford cancelled the province's cap-and-trade programme, according to an analysis of state data, which if true would mean the multi-million dollar holdings are now worthless and unusable.

More than 3,000 deer, ponies and cattle died last winter at the Oostvaardersplassen reserve

A Dutch provincial council has authorised the mass cull of about 1,000 deer on a controversial nature reserve east of Amsterdam where more than 3,000 red deer, ponies and cattle died last winter, almost all of them shot by park rangers because they were starving.

A report by a special committee of Flevoland council earlier this year demanded an immediate end to the rewilding principles on which the unique 15,000-acre Oostvaardersplassen reserve was run, which allowed “natural processes” to determine the herbivore population.

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Readers join the dots between various recent reports on the effects of air pollution on human health and the part played by cars in turning the atmosphere toxic

Your report (School run is the ‘biggest polluter’ of air children breathe, 18 September) highlights the continuing failure of government to recognise the dangers of air pollution, specifically from diesel engines, and to take necessary action to limit the number of premature deaths. But the school run is only part of the problem facing infants, children and the wider population.

Many schools are on what are now extremely busy roads; only a minority have had an air pollution survey; and because of austerity measures they seldom have the resources to take remedial action by acquiring air purifiers. School buses keep their diesel engines ticking over for half an hour or longer and legal restrictions are simply ignored by bus companies and the police. Ice-cream vans in public parks and holiday resorts are diesel-powered, but they keep their engines running all day, even when located near children’s playgrounds.

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EU carbon is expected to resume its upward trajectory and quickly rebound from last week’s 30% crash as prices remain some distance from fuel-switch levels that would curb demand, analysts said.

A joint project between US electric vehicle (EV) stakeholders, an advisory firm, and an offset registry has yielded a new offset methodology to produce voluntary carbon credits from EV charging and help foster the growth of the sector.

After spending decades exploring the deep sea, Phil Nuytten plans to build a colony there.

Pandas have to be within 20 metres of each other to identify each other's calls in their bamboo forest home.

EU carbon has retreated from its 10-year high touched last week, prompting one of the market’s top technical analysts to pontificate on where prices could head next.

Trading volumes in South Korea’s emissions trading scheme doubled in each of the programme’s first three years, with its overall value hitting 1.72 trillion won ($1.54 billion) despite the market being long 0.96% over the period, the government said.

Barriers could halt slide of undersea glaciers and hold back sea level rises predicted to result from global warming

Building walls on the seafloor may become the next frontier of climate science, as engineers seek novel ways to hold back the sea level rises predicted to result from global warming.

By erecting barriers of rock and sand, researchers believe they could halt the slide of undersea glaciers as they disintegrate into the deep. It would be a drastic endeavour but could buy some time if climate change takes hold, according to a new paper published on Thursday in the Cryosphere journal, from the European Geosciences Union.

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Japan's space agency sets dates for its plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots.

EU carbon prices jumped above €22 early on Thursday to continue this week’s highly volatile activity amid surging energy prices.

Australia will hold the next auction under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) on Dec. 11-12, with spending again likely to be below the A$100-million mark, the Clean Energy Regulator said Thursday.