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Aerial footage shows the swarm of jellyfish in the waters of Haifa Bay during the annual migration.

Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.

Lawmakers in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday passed a bill to promote the sustainable growth and protection of the province’s forests.

EU carbon prices will recover to the €85-90 level in the next four weeks, an analyst has predicted, as the benchmark futures sank Friday to their lowest close since early March.

Compliance entities continued to raise their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length to levels not seen since 2020, while speculators aggressively trimmed current vintages but favoured adding V23 units, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Labor, the Greens and the teals should be focusing on widening the footprint of support for climate action, rather than preserving product differentiation

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Over the past decade or so, there have been times when I’ve felt more like a war correspondent than a political one. And ahead of the opening of the new parliament on Tuesday, Peter Dutton is certainly not signalling an armistice.

Dutton has locked the Liberal party into voting against Labor’s 43% emissions reduction target because he thinks he can continue to weaponise medium-term climate action against a new government, at a time when inflation is running hot and interest rates are rising.

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A US startup is planning to use the energy expended when a train slams the breaks on to develop direct air carbon (DAC) technology, and says its soon-to-be concluded first funding round could be the "biggest in the sector".

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Friday asked the Commonwealth Court to refrain from reinstating its block on the state’s RGGI-linked cap-and-trade regulation, as the agency’s appeal is considered by a higher court.

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Italy, the EU's third-largest economy, is heading for months of stagnating energy and climate policy progress as its leadership was toppled this week after days of political turmoil, with elections scheduled for as early as September.

EUA prices opened strongly on Friday, continuing momentum seen late in the previous session as the market rebounded somewhat from heavy selling following Wednesday's publication of the European Commission's strategy for cutting gas demand this coming winter.

Nasa's new super telescope reveals 10 times more galaxies like our own Milky Way in the early Universe.

Gas rationing this winter looks like an "increasingly likely scenario" according to Anna Borg, CEO of Sweden-based utility Vattenfall, which published financial results on Friday that showed a drop in the company's fossil generation over the first half of 2022. 

Current plans predicated on stable growth seem foolish when we know that shocks such as global heating aren’t going away

Temperatures in Britain hit 40C. Runways melt at major airports. The London fire brigade reports its busiest single day since the second world war as fires rage around the city. The Met Office warns of temperatures so high they “could lead to serious illness or loss of life”.

Meanwhile, inflation grinds inexorably upwards. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is part of it, but other pressures were already apparent. Staples such as coffee saw price rises as a result of extreme weather disrupting harvests. Even silicon chips have been affected, with droughts in Taiwan putting the hugely water-intensive production of semiconductors at risk.

James Meadway is director of the Progressive Economy Forum

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The government of Shenzhen is set to auction off 600,000 carbon permits under its pilot emissions trading scheme in early August, with a price floor well below current market levels.

It’s not too late to avert the climate crisis from becoming even more deadly – but the window is closing

High temperature records are being obliterated across western Europe, some of which had been previously set during the heatwave in 2003 that is estimated to have left tens of thousands dead. Raging wildfires are displacing thousands of people, one of the many compounding impacts of the climate crisis. This heatwave is another reminder that we have already breached unsafe levels of global heating.

As our planet warms, these lethal heatwaves will become more frequent and more intense. In fact, we may look back on these years as some of the coolest, compared with what will come if we do not act now. Human life will encounter life-threatening impacts with increasing frequency and mounting consequences. Countless scientific reports have been conveying this reality for decades.

Andrea Dutton is an international expert on climate change and sea level rise who is a MacArthur Fellow and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Green Tory hits out at critics of Boris Johnson’s environmental land management policy

The next prime minister must press ahead with changes to farm subsidies that prioritise protecting nature and the environment, despite attacks on the policies from within the Conservative party, the prominent green Tory Ben Goldsmith has urged.

“Environmental land management contracts should be defended at all costs,” he told the Guardian. “They would tie agriculture subsidies to stewardship and the restoration of soils and nature. They incentivise the transition to more regenerative agriculture. They are about making space for nature. They are a huge win for the natural environment in this country.”

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Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has received a record number of appeals to its recommendation last month to grant a 50-year extension to Australian Woodside’s giant gas and LNG North West Shelf (NWS) project, it has been revealed.