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Pre-election campaigning hots up in Queensland, where the federal opposition leader has promised a new $200m a year fund to build climate resilience. The National's, meanwhile, are all about coal.

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Marine biologist Jacinta Shackleton has filmed an encounter with an extremely rare 'rainbow-like' blanket octopus on the Great Barrier Reef. Her screams of delight can be heard even underwater and through her diving mask. Shackleton said that the blanket octopus generally spends its lifecycle in the open ocean so it’s even more unusual to see one on the reef. 'Seeing one in real life is indescribable, I was so captivated by its movements, it was as if it was dancing through the water with a flowing cape,’ said Shackleton. ‘The vibrant colours are just so incredible, you can’t take your eyes off it’

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Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farming and water companies.

Shell lays plans for a "major hydrogen hub" in Europe, starting with construction of an offshore wind powered electrolysis plant in the Port of Rotterdam.

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An Alaska forestry project saw millions of its California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) shed their invalidation risk this week, while entities voluntarily retired a large chunk of the compliance credits over the past two months, according to data from state regulator ARB published Wednesday.

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The UN’s climate change agency has partnered with a second carbon exchange to drive sales of carbon credits issued under its Kyoto-era Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the voluntary carbon market, as the international offsetting scheme readies its transition under the Paris Agreement.

US biofuel credit (RIN) prices fell from 2.5-month highs on Wednesday on a report that President Joe Biden’s administration may trim recently proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volumes for this year.

Addressing urgent and complex problems such as climate change involves research across the full spectrum of society – and that includes Australia’s young people. Philippa Collin, Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Brendan Churchill, ARC Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne Faith Gordon, Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University Judith Bessant, Professor in School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Michelle Catanzaro, Senior Lecturer in Design / Senior Research Fellow (YRRC), Western Sydney University Rob Watts, Professor of Social Policy, RMIT University Stewart Jackson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

These iconic honeyeaters once ruled the flowering gum trees in massive numbers. But habitat loss means they’re on the edge of extinction. Rob Heinsohn, Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology, Australian National University Dejan Stojanovic, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University Ross Crates, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU ETS should include waste incinerators, add shipping a year earlier than originally planned, and make sweeping changes to free allocations for heavy industry, according to a leaked draft of a proposal from senior MEP Peter Liese seen by Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

EUAs made modest gains in persistently volatile trading on Wednesday morning as energy prices were flat to weaker, while trade in UK Allowances picked up ahead of the British market's first sale of the year.

Hong Kong scientists design simple filter system to capture the harmful microplastics – but there’s a catch

A single tumble dryer could be responsible for releasing 120m micro plastic fibres into the air each year, a study has found.

Tumble dryers are one of the main sources of microfibre pollution in the atmosphere, according to research by Prof Kenneth Leung, director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP) and department of chemistry at City University of Hong Kong.

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Two climate campaign groups will take the UK government to court over its net zero strategy and its lack of concrete policies required to meet the country's legally binding carbon budgets.

Australian carbon credit prices are continuing to rise quickly on very low volumes, as all available supply is quickly picked up by voluntary buyers and emitters preparing for next month’s Safeguard Mechanism compliance deadline.

South Korea sold only 40% of the allowances available at its first carbon auction of the year, even as the KAU price continues to rise.

China’s central government said Tuesday to establish carbon sink trading pilots in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang province in northeast China, two of China’s most forestry abundant regions.

Police prosecutors had argued Rosa Hicks aided and abetted other activists by photographing them applying washable chalk paint

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An Extinction Rebellion activist whose home was raided by Western Australia’s counter-terror police over a chalk message has had the case against her thrown out by a Perth magistrate.

Rosa Hicks was one of six arrested after a group of activists used washable chalk paint to write messages on a pedestrian bridge in Perth within view of Woodside’s headquarters to protest the company’s development of the $16bn Scarborough gas project.

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Research shows planned expansion of conifer woodlands across the UK could have unintended consequences

Conifer plantations, which are being expanded around the UK to combat the climate crisis and foster biodiversity, are in danger of hurting one of the key species they were thought to protect: red squirrels.

The threatened red squirrels, driven to near-extinction over most of the UK by grey squirrel incursion, were thought to thrive in conifer habitats as the food sources in such forests tend to be limited to small seeded cones, which red squirrels are better at exploiting than the more generalist grey squirrels. That should mean conifer plantations prove better for red squirrels than greys.

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