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Tiny bridge in Lancashire will connect two wild populations of the tree-dwelling hazel dormouse

Measuring 12 metres long and just 30cm wide, it’s a bridge of miniature proportions.

But it is hoped that the square metal tube – set to become the first “dormouse bridge” across a UK railway – could help to save Britain’s endangered wild hazel dormouse population from extinction.

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UN aviation body ICAO’s Council has rejected all three of this year’s applications for eligibility under its CORSIA carbon offsetting scheme, failing to add the land-based initiatives to the seven programmes approved to date to provide airlines with a supply of carbon credits.

Climate models show switch will happen decades faster than previously thought, with ‘profound’ implications

Rain will replace snow as the Arctic’s most common precipitation as the climate crisis heats up the planet’s northern ice cap, according to research.

Today, more snow falls in the Arctic than rain. But this will reverse, the study suggests, with all the region’s land and almost all its seas receiving more rain than snow before the end of the century if the world warms by 3C. Pledges made by nations at the recent Cop26 summit could keep the temperature rise to a still disastrous 2.4C, but only if these promises are met.

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EU carbon prices were firmer in early Tuesday trading as fundamental factors supported the market and energy prices continued to forge higher.

ICE is set to revamp its carbon price index to include UK emissions allowances, and will offer a new futures contract to track it.

Mycorrhizal fungal networks are a major global carbon sink. When we destroy them, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating

If we want to tackle the climate crisis, we need to address a global blindspot: the vast underground fungal networks that sequester carbon and sustain much of life on Earth.

Fungi are largely invisible ecosystem engineers. Most live as branching, fusing networks of tubular cells known as mycelium. Globally, the total length of fungal mycelium in the top 10cm of soil is more than 450 quadrillion km: about half the width of our galaxy. These symbiotic networks comprise an ancient life-support system that easily qualifies as one of the wonders of the living world.

Toby Kiers is professor of evolutionary biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (Spun)

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

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Sinopec, China’s state-controlled oil refining, gas, and petrochemical giant, has begun construction of a green hydrogen facility in Xinjiang, the company said on Tuesday.

One of China’s most energy intensive provinces is drafting regulations that would require industrial companies to slash existing emissions before they can develop new projects.

The fungal networks in soil can help fight climate change but are under threat, experts say.

Australia on Tuesday announced a pilot scheme that will show big emitters’ progress towards their voluntary emissions commitments, including the use of carbon credits. 

Local conservationist recognises ‘honeybee propaganda’ beside mural before writing to famed British naturalist

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A suburban South Australian shopping centre has created a buzz after it falsely attributed a quote about bees, written on a plaque in a bathroom hallway, to the famous British naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

The plaque, labelled “honeybee propaganda”, has now been removed after Attenborough himself intervened.

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Join a panel of leading experts in discussing what net zero really means, and what it requires to get there in this third webinar of the Energy Transformed series.

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Australian start-up signs an exclusive licence to commercialise fossil-fuel free ammonia production techniques developed at Melbourne's Monash University.

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Floating Power Plant has secured a location to deploy its first full-scale hybrid floating wind and wave platform at test facilities in Canary Islands

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Reports highlight critical role played by states and territories in driving renewables uptake, while federal government undermines investor confidence.

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A proposed rewrite of market rules for battery and pumped hydro projects includes controversial network charges that could kill investment in storage.

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By introducing tactics of direct action and digital mobilisation, Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion have renewed the climate movement and accelerated climate action. Nina Hall, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University Charles Lawrie, Doctoral Researcher in International Relations, University of Sussex Sahar Priano, Researcher, Johns Hopkins University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

While greenhouse emissions were stable over the year, an uptick in the June quarter shows pollution is not in decline despite Australia’s net zero by 2050 pledge

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Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in the June quarter by about 2% as pollution from the electricity sector and transport increased.

Figures released on Tuesday by the Morrison government showed that on a year to year basis, emissions for the 12 months to last June totalled 498.9m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. That tally was down 2.1%, or 10.8m tonnes compared with the same period a year earlier.

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A dozen countries block Morrison government’s ‘highly inappropriate’ push to suspend process for adding sites to world heritage ‘in danger’ list

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A dozen countries have accused the Australian government of trying to hit pause on a process that could still lead to the Great Barrier Reef being placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger”.

But a global climate change policy to guide how more than 190 countries deal with the crisis affecting some of the world’s most special places, couldn’t be agreed on at a major international meeting in Paris.

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