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Are wind turbines conscious? Has battery storage been discovered yet? Why doesn't solar work at night? Peter Dutton is asking searching questions.

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The Great Barrier Reef is facing its worst summer of sustained heat stress since the mass bleaching event of 1998, but now with less time to recover amid repeated brutal conditions. Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Proponents of ‘bathing waters’ designation say it would force action on sewage but others worry about impact of more visitors

The waters of the River Cam are an unsettling lurid green on a dull day. The river that flows through Cambridge and has been enjoyed by swimmers including Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf and Roger Deakin is increasingly polluted from sewage discharges and phosphates and nitrates from farmland.

Now swimmers hope that the government designating a short stretch of the river at Sheep’s Green as “bathing waters” will provide the impetus to clean it up.

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Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the world’s most traded species better protections

France’s hunger for frogs’ legs is “destructive to nature” and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets have warned.

More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.

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BBC News is shown the secret site protecting the remains of the Sycamore Gap tree felled last year.

Speculators reduced length across North American carbon markets while emitters added to California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) net holdings, weekly data from the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed on Friday.

Fossil fuel-producing Alberta cannot meet its net zero goals without carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), but project proponents face uncertainty that can be remedied if the province helped cement a price for CO2, said the former Alberta minister of energy in a webinar Thursday.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) should simplify its funding opportunities to focus on innovation, facilitate interagency cooperation on permitting, and adjust its structures to better achieve agency goals, according to a report published Thursday.

The Washington state Department of Ecology (ECY) is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) that look to incentivise sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and improve the scheme’s reporting framework.

EU aircraft operators covered by the UN's CORSIA offsetting scheme emitted 105 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, according to European Commission data released late Friday, figures that will shed some light on carriers' demand for carbon credits.

Heating fuel distributors and power generators have voiced concerns about the shift to electrification under a Connecticut bill proposing statewide carbon neutrality by 2050, while some stakeholders support the proposal's economic benefits in cross-border trade.

An oil-rich state in Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a UK investor, granting it permission to restore thousands of mangroves to generate an estimated 5 million voluntary carbon credits per year.

Questions around the role of the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and legislative complications continue to delay a landmark law establishing a national cap-and-trade system in Brazil, potentially endangering President Lula’s push for passage in the first half of 2024.

A Canada-based offset project developer it buying a London-based carbon trading platform.

A charge imposed on ride-hailing customers in Southeast Asia to mitigate the climate impact of their travel is backed by dodgy voluntary carbon credits and subjects the company to potential claims of greenwashing, according to an investigation by a local non-profit.

The UK government has announced a water credit pilot in Cambridge through retrofitting water-efficient devices, such as tap aerators, into buildings at a cost of up to £4.5 million ($5.8 mln) to enable the development of thousands of houses.

The UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved $489.8 million of funding across 11 climate projects in developing countries this week, which will total $1.26 billion with co-financing.

Degraded coral reefs can recover at an "incredible" pace, growing at the same speed as healthy ones that have not been restored after just four years of management, although they tend to be poorer in biodiversity, a research has found.

A multinational commodity distributor has teamed up with a regenerative farming specialist to help scale its carbon emissions measurement programme and reach more producers in Argentina, it announced Friday.

ICE Endex is to launch a new "mini" EU Allowance futures contract in an effort to capture demand from shippers and smaller emitters in the ETS, and possibly even retail investors keen to gain exposure to the carbon market as supply tightens significantly towards 2030.