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WA government allocates prime Pilbara land for a range of projects proposing to produce hydrogen, ammonia and renewable energy.

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Acknowledging that the regulatory environment is not fit for purpose is one thing; proceeding with transmission projects with this knowledge is absurd.

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Australia will soon hold a consultation on offshore CCS acreage in the country’s waters, as its resources minister told an oil and gas conference Tuesday that the government supports the development of CCS, but without promising any direct financial support.

SA energy minister tells industry ‘we are here to help’ while federal resources minister Madeleine King promotes carbon capture and storage

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South Australia’s minister for energy and mining has told a conference of the oil and gas industry in Adelaide that his state government is “at your disposal”.

Tom Koutsantonis made the extraordinary comments during his address to the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association national conference on Monday morning.

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BlueScope Steel chips in funds and prime real estate at its Port Kembla hub to build a “world first” gravitational energy storage R&D facility.

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Seven times British women's champion Lucy Campbell is calling for more environmentally friendly surfboards and wetsuits.

Climate Action Data Trust (CAD Trust) is recruiting a Community Manager to support the work of its recently established governing bodies. The candidate will report to the Executive Director. The Candidate will organise and lead the User Forum.

Ewan Cameron was running near his home in Angus when the bird attacked, leaving him covered in blood.

A Brazilian offset developer active in REDD+ projects has sold a minority stake in its company to Latin America's largest investment bank, the firms announced Monday.

A pair of Toronto-headquartered voluntary carbon credit financiers registered slimmer net losses over the first three months of the year when compared to the same period in 2022 as the firms’ revenue streams began to materialise, according to earnings reports published Monday.

RGGI Allowances (RGAs) posted modest price gains this week despite a lack of clear market drivers and reduced volume, while traders said newly released draft federal CO2 regulations may incentivise additional states to join the cap-and-trade scheme in the future.

Mould is a health hazard and renters are most at risk. Here experts in health, law, building and construction examine the problem of mould in homes and offer guidance for both renters and landlords. Rebecca Bentley, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Nicola Willand, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Tim Law, Guest lecturer and Practice Lead — Building Sciences, at Restoration Industry Consultants Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The UN has opened a tender to buy almost 12,000 Gold Standard CERs to offset some of the organisation's emissions.

Use of pesticides and fertilisers identified as most significant factor behind loss of 550 million birds from skies

The use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in the UK and the rest of Europe, scientists have said.

Compared with a generation ago, 550 million fewer birds fly over the continent, with their decline well documented. But until now the relative importance of various pressures on bird populations was not known.

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Standardised carbon credit prices continued to slip further below $2 over the past week, extending a long trend, while well-known projects were confined to pockets of higher-priced sales of fresh vintages.  

The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared with a year earlier, even as the bloc’s economy grew, according to data released by the EU's statistical office on Monday.

Turkish will establish a national programme to scale carbon credit supply to help meet its 2053 net-zero target, aiming to expand project activities into a regional market and move away from a reliance on renewable energy projects, the government said over the weekend, also confirming that plans for an emissions trading system were underway.

The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) announced on Monday the signing of a 20-year contract with utility Orsted to support the delivery of a full-scale carbon capture, transport, and storage project.

The EU is likely to avoid seeking decisive discussions on a global fossil fuel phase-out during upcoming international events, instead focusing on forging partnerships to spur the deployment of clean technologies.

Fertilised, it can hold things shaped as differently as: a snake, an auk, a platypus; an emu, a tortoise, a peacock

Things I have learned reading about eggs: that chickens have earlobes, and the colour of the earlobes correlates with the colour of the egg: white ear lobe, white egg; red ear lobe, brown egg. What can lay an egg? An orange-peel doris can lay an egg in a tidal pool; a bee hummingbird can lay an egg the size of an aspirin; an auk on a cliff lays a conical egg, which will roll around in a circle instead of forwards and off the edge; a spider wraps her egg in silk, places it on a stalk, then lays another.

To Linda Pastan, an egg was “a moon / glowing faintly / in the galaxy of the barn”. Approach it, and Louise Glück will tell you: “The thing is hatching. Look.” One egg looks – apart from its size, the sharpness of its point, or its colour – much like another: they are all pleasing in the same way, hard-shelled and soft-shaped. “An egg is the most beautiful of all / beautiful forms, a box without corners / in which anything can be contained”, wrote Elizabeth Spires. This one structure, variations on round, can hold things shaped as differently as: a snake, an auk, a platypus; an emu, a tortoise, a peacock.

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