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A dry winter is expected to hamper low-carbon hydroelectric power generation in California this summer, according the state’s independent system operator, pointing to a potential tightening of the state’s cap-and-trade market.

Officials say homeowners could see significantly lower utilities costs per month.

California regulator ARB handed out over 6.4 million California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) this week in the third largest issuance in the programme's history, with one new forestry project receiving the vast majority of the credits.

Indigenous water rights have been overlooked for a very long time. A bipartisan agreement on the Murray Darling Basin Plan may change that. Sue Jackson, Professor, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers plan to integrate their cocaine-detecting chip in a portable scanner.

Exclusive: five-year ‘enhanced clearance’ programme targets trees along 20,000 miles of track to avoid delays, according to an internal document

Network Rail is to target all “leaf fall” trees for removal alongside its tracks in a new £800m five-year programme of “enhanced clearance”, according to an internal document seen by the Guardian.

The policy document for 2019-24 emerged as the environment secretary, Michael Gove, summoned the chief executive of Network Rail for talks over their approach to environmental management following revelations about tree felling across the country by the Guardian.

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European carbon prices rose above €14 on Wednesday, coming within sight of their recent seven-year high as the flow of short-term supply paused and President Trump’s decision to pull the US out of an international nuclear pact with Iran lifted the wider energy complex.

An unusual object has been found lurking in the Kuiper Belt, and it may have a tale to tell.

An Airbus executive says future UK work on the Galileo sat-nav system would have to be moved to the continent because of Brexit.

The US-based Paulson Institute has launched a green finance centre in China to help the world’s biggest-polluting nation drive private funding to cut pollution levels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Technology conglomerate Softbank and utility Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) are among the participants in a new blockchain initiative in Japan that will allow rural consumers to trade renewable energy in a bid to cut emissions.

Warming oceans melting Antarctic ice shelves could accelerate sea level rise

We all know intuitively that in a warmer world there will be less ice. And, since the North and South Pole regions contain lots of ice, anyone who wants to see evidence of climate change can look there.

But beyond this simplistic view, things can get pretty complex. First, it’s important to recognize that the Arctic and the Antarctic are very different places. In the Arctic, almost all the ice is floating on water – there is very little land. So, we talk about ‘sea ice’ in the north, formed from frozen sea water. On the other hand, Antarctica is a massive land mass that is covered by ice formed from snowfall (called an ‘ice sheet’). There is some floating ice around the perimeter of the land, but the vast majority of Antarctic ice is on land.

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New Zealand carbon allowances saw their second consecutive day of losses on Wednesday as buyers took a breather after pushing prices up to near-record highs.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator on Wednesday released new methods for generating carbon credits from savanna burning projects in a move to ensure developers can also earn for sequestering carbon.

The ECF’s Climate Policy Team currently accepts applications for an enthusiastic and highly driven individual to join its Brussels team as “EU Climate Policy Intern” and gain professional experience in political communications on EU climate policy and politics.

Zibelman says critics need to get used to the fact that the energy market is changing, and it was underscored by AGL that said coal "is well and truly beaten out" by wind and solar.

Millions of seabirds saved after remote island is officially declared rodent-free for the first time since humans arrived there more than 200 years ago

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Plan to change timeline for energy use reduction puts Paris targets at risk, say MEPS

A secret UK push to weaken key EU climate laws before Brexit risks scotching the bloc’s Paris commitments, MEPs say.

The EU has committed to a 20% cut in its energy use by 2020 to be achieved by two directives, covering energy efficiency and buildings.

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