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The young female porpoise had become stranded at Grange burn near to Grangemouth.

ALLCOT is currently looking for a Senior Origination and Sustainability Manager under the supervision of the Technical director of the company. You will be responsible for the management of the team based in Madrid to work on national and international projects to reduce GHG emissions and to provide sustainability consultancy services.

Daniel Webb accrued a mountain of plastic – including many packets of Hula Hoops – and made it into a mural, now on display at Dreamland in Margate. We are overproducing and overconsuming, he says, and recycling is not the answer

We all know, in theory, that we ought to use less plastic. We’ve all been distressed by the sight of Blue Planet II’s hawksbill turtle entangled in a plastic sack, and felt chastened as we’ve totted up our weekly tally of disposable coffee cups. But still, UK annual plastic waste is now close to 5m tonnes, including enough single-use plastic to fill 1,000 Royal Albert Halls; the government’s planned elimination of “avoidable” plastic waste by 2042 seems a quite dazzling task. It was reported this week that scientists at the University of Portsmouth have accidentally developed a plastic-eating mutant enzyme, and while we wait to see if that will save us all, for one individual the realisation of just how much plastic we use has become an intensely personal matter.

One early evening in mid-2016, Daniel Webb, 36, took a run along the coast near his home in Margate. “It was one of those evenings where the current had brought in lots of debris,” he recalls, because as Webb looked down at the beach from his route along the promenade he noticed a mass of seaweed, tangled with many pieces of plastic. “Old toys, probably 20 years old, bottles that must have been from overseas because they had all kinds of different languages on them, bread tags, which I don’t think had been used for years …” he says. “It was very nostalgic, almost archaeological. And it made me think, as a mid-30s guy, is any of my plastic out there? Had I once dropped a toy in a stream near Wolverhampton, where I’m from, and now it was out in the sea?”

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A top environmental commodities trading firm is looking for a CORPORATE TRADER – CARBON MARKETS. Position based in Budapest, Madrid or Brussels.

The full EU Parliament on Tuesday gave its approval to two bills that extend to 2030 emissions goals from sectors outside the EU ETS, giving a select number of richer EU states the option of cancelling some ETS allowances to help meet the their targets more easily.

Anti-palm oil campaigner Nazildo dos Santos Brito is the third victim in four weeks as land conflicts increase in the country’s Pará state

Brazil’s Amazonian state of Pará has added to its reputation as a killing ground for land activists with the murder of an anti-palm oil campaigner.

Nazildo dos Santos Brito – a leader of a Quilombo Afro-Brazilian community formed by runaway slaves – was killed at the weekend. It was the third assassination in four weeks in the north-eastern corner of the state, which also saw more killings over territory and the environment than any other last year.

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A top environmental commodities trading firm is looking for a Internship - Corporate Sales. Position based in Brussels (Belgium)

EU ETS stakeholders are expecting further changes to the carbon market as most believe recently-agreed reforms aren’t enough to meet the bloc’s long-term climate goals, a report found on Tuesday.

China will have to cut production levels in its most polluting industries by 30% by the end of next decade to meet the government’s air pollution targets, but has the opportunity to build a clean tech market worth $3.2 trillion along the way, according to a study released Tuesday.

Energy use for air conditioning, refrigeration and other cooling appliances expected to jump 90% on 2017 levels

A burgeoning middle class and a warming world will result in energy demand for cooling overtaking that for heating by the middle of the century, researchers have predicted.

Energy use for air conditioning, refrigeration and other cooling appliances will jump 90% on 2017 levels, experts estimated, posing a challenge for energy grids and efforts to curb climate change.

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The UK’s climate laws forged a path for others to follow. But as progressive nations commit to zero emissions, it must reclaim its leading role, writes Sweden’s deputy prime minister

What does it mean for a nation to be a “climate leader” in 2018?

At the very least, it must mean having a firm plan in place to deliver your nation’s fair share of the Paris agreement. During that stunning fortnight in December 2015, 195 governments freely and willingly committed not only to keep global warming well below 2C, but to aim for the safer level of 1.5C. And they committed to bring net greenhouse gas emissions down to zero.

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The government pledged in 2016 to enshrine a zero target in law to meet its Paris commitments, but has yet to pass any legislation

The UK is to review its long-term target to cut climate emissions as part of global efforts to curb rising temperatures, the government has announced.

The announcement by clean growth minister Claire Perry during the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) raises the possibility the UK could implement a target to reduce emissions to “net zero” by 2050, tightening the existing goal to cut greenhouse gases by 80% by that date.

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Poland violated EU law by ordering large-scale logging in Bialowieza forest, Europe's top court says.

Karen Nyberg, who's been to space twice, answers questions from primary school children.

Judge dismisses claims by Polish government that logging was necessary to protect ancient forest from outbreak of bark beetles

The EU’s highest court has ruled that Poland’s logging of the ancient Białowieża forest is illegal, potentially opening the door to multi-million euro fines.

At least 10,000 trees have been felled in Białowieża, one of Europe’s last parcels of primeval woodland, since the former Polish environment minister, Jan Szyzko tripled logging limits there in 2016.

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New Zealand on Tuesday established the Interim Climate Change Committee, which will explore whether and how to bring agriculture into the nation’s emissions trading scheme.

Australia’s main opposition party on Tuesday embraced draft changes to the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) it said would make the policy work like an emission intensity trading scheme, but maintained the government-set emission target and approach to state renewable goals were unacceptable.

The decision comes after a scientific inquiry made 135 recommendations including strict new laws and regulations of the industry.

The ecological health of New Zealand's lowland rivers and lakes is in decline, but principles borrowed from drinking water safety could help reverse the degradation. Troy Baisden, Professor and Chair in Lake and Freshwater Sciences, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Australian Government is pleased to announce new appointments to the Board of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).