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A second batch of RGGI offsets have been issued to a Maryland project, the only facility to have received credits under the scheme.

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) finalised a proposal Friday that would embed a carbon price on its wholesale electricity market, but it offered few changes from prior versions of the initiative.

Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

European carbon prices ended Friday higher, adding 1.5% in a becalmed session compared to the previous day’s volatile barn burner to end within sight of last week’s close.

Voluntary market developers should pause exporting carbon credits once the Paris Agreement begins and until trade rules are clear, industry group ICROA said Friday, in a drastic shift in stance that could transform the nature of the sector.

Augmented reality is used in mining and infrastructure companies, but how could it help in farming? And we find out about a special reef regeneration project off the Sunshine Coast.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) teamed up with Germany and Sweden on Friday to launch a new facility to support Southeast Asian nations develop ITMO pilot projects for Paris-era international emission trade.

Students get involved in 'wombot' research; make furniture from salvaged timber; meet a couple of rock farmers; and get your photo taken with Santa on the sand.

Two instruments on the recently landed InSight probe capture the noise made by the planet's wind.

Energy exchange EEX on Friday published the 2019 auction calendar the group of 25 EU member states that sell their EUAs and EUAAs on the bloc's common auction platform.

• Trump seeking $1bn package to upgrade road, rail and bridges
• Senator Chuck Schumer issues condition for Democrat support

Democrats will only support an infrastructure deal with Donald Trump if it includes measures to combat climate change, the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has warned.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post and a letter to Trump, the New York Democrat said that his party “will have an extraordinary opportunity to force action on climate change” after taking control of the House of Representatives in the recent midterm elections.

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RGGI’s December auction settled at $5.35/short ton on Friday, clearing at a premium for the third consecutive auction and falling outside of most market participants’ expectations.

An African wild dog preparing for a hunt and a male mimic poison frog transporting a tadpole are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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Toxic air and cold weather could create deadly conditions and stretch NHS, medics say

Thousands of children are facing hospital this winter as cold weather and the UK’s air pollution crisis combine to create potentially deadly conditions for young people, doctors have warned.

The Royal College of Paediatricians, the Royal College of Physicians and children’s charity Unicef say that the UK’s toxic air and cold weather will leave a huge number of children extremely vulnerable this winter, creating an “overlooked” emergency for an already stretched NHS.

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It will be the first attempt to land robotic craft to the side of the Moon which never faces Earth.

African swine fever has been spreading rapidly in China and has also travelled from Russia and Eastern Europe to Belgium. Experts fear it is only a matter of time before it reaches the US.

A global outbreak of African swine fever will reach the US within a year unless border protections are tightened and imports of high-risk pork products banned, warn biosecurity experts. It would cost the US economy $16.5bn (£12.9bn) in the first year alone, it has been estimated.

An ongoing epidemic of the virus, which is deadly for pigs but cannot yet be transmitted to humans, has prompted the US Department of Agriculture to review and strengthen its border protections. After outbreaks in Belgium and China this year, the USDA has increased the use of sniffer dogs at major ports, airports, land borders crossings, and has also built quarantine stations and increased passenger and cargo inspections on flights from China and Russia, the worst hit countries.

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The firm behind the 1,000 mph supersonic vehicle failed to find an injection of £25m to keep going.

Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross, has laid another egg with her longtime lover at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge

In sea mariner lore, an albatross is considered a good omen, and for almost seven decades, one bird has spread generations of blessings across the Pacific Ocean.

Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross believed to be the world’s oldest known wild bird, has returned to her home at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge for yet another winter – and laid yet another egg to add to the already impressive brood that she has built up over an impressive lifetime.

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Tens of thousands of hectares cleared in Ghana and Ivory Coast since vow to end practice

The cocoa industry is failing to meet a highly publicised pledge to stop deforestation in west Africa and eliminate tainted beans from supply chains, environmental campaigners say.

Big chocolate companies and the governments of Ghana and the Ivory Coast continue to be responsible for the deforestation of tens of thousands of hectares of land over the past year in former rainforest-covered nations, despite their solemn promises to end the practice last November, the campaigning organisation Mighty Earth said.

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