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Louisiana fisherman stumbles across scene of sharks gorging themselves on large pod of fish

Thinking he had spotted a “tuna boil”, and thereby found his own prey, a Louisiana fisherman soon realised he had instead stumbled across a huge group of sharks engaged in a feeding frenzy.

“Never seen anything like it,” Dillon May told Storyful, to whom he provided video of the remarkable scene.

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Three defendants who glued themselves to City of London road in October 2021 face possible retrial

Three climate protesters who stopped traffic to bring rush hour chaos to the City of London face a possible retrial.

Dorset councillor Giovanna Lewis, 65, horticultural worker Amy Pritchard, 37, and screenwriter Paul Sheeky, 46, blocked traffic between Bishopsgate and Wormwood Street.

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The carnivorous Phyllurus fimbriatus is only found in the wettest, rockiest pockets of Scawfell Island

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A new species of gecko that “looks like a little dragon”, with a beaky face and spiny leaf-shaped tail, has been discovered on an uninhabited Queensland island.

The new lizard was found on Scawfell Island, a rugged island about 50km offshore from the north Queensland city of Mackay.

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The agency is familiar with dioxins, having researched its adverse effects, and if they test the soil in East Palestine for it, they will find it

The decision to release and burn five tanker cars of vinyl chloride and other chemicals at the site of a 38-car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, just over three weeks ago unleashed a gigantic cloud full of particulates that enveloped surrounding neighborhoods and farms in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

It is well documented that burning chlorinated chemicals like vinyl chloride will generate dioxins. “Dioxin” is the name given to a group of persistent, very toxic chemicals that share similar chemical structures. The most toxic form of dioxin is 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin or TCDD. TCDD is more commonly recognized as the toxic contaminant found in Agent Orange and at Love Canal, New York and Times Beach, Missouri, both sites of two of the most tragic environmental catastrophes in US history.

Stephen Lester is a toxicologist and the science director of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, a project of the People’s Action Institute

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Crossbench senator’s support is crucial if government is to introduce planned revamp of safeguard mechanism

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The independent senator David Pocock has urged the Albanese government to quickly implement all recommendations from a review of Australia’s carbon credit system, given that it wants to introduce a climate policy that relies heavily on offsets.

Pocock’s is a key vote if the government is to introduce a planned revamp of the safeguard mechanism, a scheme that is meant to reduce carbon pollution from 215 big polluting industrial and resources sites.

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IEA records rise of less than 1% from energy use in 2022, but 7% reduction needed every year this decade to meet emissions goal

Global carbon dioxide emissions are still rising but may at least be reaching a plateau, research from the International Energy Agency has shown.

CO2 from energy – by far the biggest source of emissions – increased by less than 1% in 2022. This was despite the turmoil in energy the markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Stop relying on big corporations and start being more self-sufficient. And then discover your own lettuces taste better

When vegetable shortages hit supermarkets earlier this month, I was probably less concerned than most salad lovers. I’ve been an urban gardener for seven years, growing my own food in an 8x5m space in London. It all began for me as a tribute to my grandfather, who taught me everything I know about gardening and the living soil around us: how to use every part of the fruit and vegetables I grow; the importance of micro-organisms; using organic practices to nurture plants and protect Mother Earth.

Now, I’m on a mission to help other people to grow their own food, to recreate the missing link with nature and to reduce their impact on the environment. I want to empower people with the knowledge to start their own supply of homegrown food, in order to stop relying completely on big corporations and start being more self-sufficient. You don’t need any specific skills to do this: by following some easy and basic steps you will be able to grow your own organic food at home.

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EU carbon permit prices fell to their lowest in two weeks on Thursday, unwinding the gains that saw the market set a new record last week, as traders continued trimming long positions in reaction to the recent welter of cautious price forecasts while prompt energy markets rose on the back of firm crude oil prices.

Placing a value on risk when buying voluntary carbon market offsets will ease concerns of reputational damage and drive up demand, the founder of a carbon insurance firm that has just received  $7 million in seed funding told Carbon Pulse.

Conservationists condemn latest cull as ‘trophy hunting’, while hunters admit it is ‘about the excitement’

Sweden has issued licences to hunters to kill a total of 201 lynx, weeks after dozens of wolves were killed in the country’s biggest wolf cull in modern times.

The number of licences to kill lynx throughout March, issued by Sweden’s country administrations, is more than double the number in recent years.

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An offset trading platform established by a subsidiary of Japanese trading house Mitsui has said it will start offering trade in units from Japan’s J-Credit programme, making it the country's first privately-owned marketplace to trade such credits beyond the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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Industrial greenhouse gas emissions are projected to rise globally by 2050 without additional government interventions, according to modelling analysis published Thursday, but mid-century decarbonisation is still technologically possible even as this becomes more costly as fossil-powered facilities continue to be built.

Indian carbon offset project developer EKI Energy has formed a collaboration with UK-based Inclusive Energy (IE) to enhance monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of energy projects in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), it announced on Thursday.

Global energy-related CO2 emissions rose by just under 1% to a new high in 2022, reaching 36.8 billion tonnes, although the annual increase was tempered by higher clean energy use offsetting the impact of increased coal and oil demand as the global economy grew by over 3%, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Analysis for Friends of the Earth also finds lower-income areas have far fewer trees than wealthier ones

Nearly half of English neighbourhoods have less than 10% tree cover, with lower-income areas having far fewer trees than wealthier ones, analysis has found.

England’s tree cover is just 12.8%, according to the research by Friends of the Earth, with only 10% made up by woodland – paling in comparison with the EU, where woodland cover stands at 38%.

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Wealthy countries and businesses should act now to ensure success of historic nature agreement signed at Cop15 in Montreal

Governments and businesses must start implementing this decade’s deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems as soon as possible, the acting UN biodiversity chief has said, urging rich nations to tackle overconsumption of the planet’s resources.

David Cooper, the new acting executive secretary for the UN convention on biological diversity (CBD), said countries and corporations must immediately act on December’s historic agreement in Montreal, which includes targets to protect 30% of Earth, reform $500bn (£410bn) of environmentally damaging subsidies, and address and disclose the impact businesses have on biodiversity.

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Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police during a demonstration against two "illegal" Norwegian wind farms.

The post Greta Thunberg detained by police during Norway wind farm protest appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SwitchDin taps Newcastle to develop what will be the Southern Hemisphere’s largest dedicated test lab for distributed energy resources.

The post Cutting edge distributed energy test lab in works for New South Wales coal centre appeared first on RenewEconomy.