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Greenland’s melting ice sheets threaten to significantly hamper humanity’s efforts to mitigate climate change. Willow Hallgren, Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

China's MingYang Smart Energy unveils 16MW, 264-metre tall offshore wind turbine which now rates as the world’s largest.

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Plans to decarbonise homes are too complicated and confusing, say consumer and industry groups.

The country is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", the UN says.

The UK government is seeking people's views on whether beavers should return to England's rivers.

UN experts say rapid innovative solutions are needed to end our dependency on fossil fuels. Could this new project provide an answer?

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The Oregon Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) posted its largest ever quarterly deficit during the first three months of 2021 due to a spike in fossil-based fuels and a decline in renewable alternatives, according to state data published Tuesday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices could see some volatility should voters recall Governor Gavin Newsom (D) next month, but the programme itself is likely to persist, traders and regulatory sources said.

Myanmar has submitted a revised NDC to the UN featuring its first mitigation goals and specifically referencing a South Korean programme it intends to develop under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 international trading provision.

There are 191 different species of bat across the Pacific Island. They are vital parts of the region’s biodiversity, and many species have cultural significance. John Martin, Research Scientist, Taronga Conservation Society Australia & Adjunct lecturer, University of Sydney David L. Waldien, Adjunct assistant professor, Christopher Newport University Junior Novera, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Justin A. Welbergen, President of the Australasian Bat Society | Associate Professor of Animal Ecology, Western Sydney University Malik OEDIN, PhD Population Biology and Ecology, Université de Nouvelle Calédonie Nicola Hanrahan, Terrestrial Ecologist, Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security, Northern Territory Government & Visiting Fellow, Charles Darwin University Tigga Kingston, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University Tyrone Lavery, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The high-speed evacuated-tube transportation company reveals its plans for passenger pods

Large RGGI emitters took different approaches to the power sector cap-and-trade programme over the second quarter, with some regulated entities adding length as allowance prices rose and others trimming holdings, according to quarterly reports.

Some experts fear climate crisis is leading creatures back to area where they were hunted almost to extinction

Blue whales, the world’s largest mammals, are returning to Spain’s Atlantic coast after an absence of more than 40 years.

The first one was spotted off the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain in 2017 by Bruno Díaz, a marine biologist who is head of the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in O Grove, Galicia.

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A group of new energy companies led by Tesla and Enphase call for focus on new technologies, rather than mechanisms to prop up ageing coal fleet.

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Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Copley Medal.

Activists say the bank, which handles government tax accounts, gives billions in funding to fossil fuel industries

Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked Whitehall in a protest against HMRC’s links to Barclays Bank, which handles the government’s tax collection bank accounts.

On the second day of the environmental protest group’s latest campaign of protest and civil disobedience, activists from its Welsh chapter locked themselves together in the street in front of the tax collection department, stopping traffic.

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Carbon prices extended their gains for a third day amid quiet trading early on Tuesday, supported by higher gas prices amid production outages at a North Sea field.

Zhangjiakou, the northern Chinese city that will co-host next year’s Winter Olympics, is busy putting in place the nation’s largest green hydrogen capacity, though experts predict China's push to develop the fuel will take years to make an impact.

Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threat

Small fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at record speed. Our town’s beloved colony of great blue herons fall stunned out of the trees in their dozens. Animals, from cougars to rattlesnakes, leave their hidden places to seek water. The temperature has risen, and stalled, at a nearly unbearable 45C.

This is what a heat dome feels like in Vernon, a community in the British Columbian interior in Canada.

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