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Pollen released by plants is also more intense than in 1990 in bad news for those with allergies, research in US and Canada finds

The climate crisis is multiplying the miseries faced by people with allergies, with new research finding that the pollen season in North America is now an average 20 days longer than it was three decades ago.

Related: How urban planners' preference for male trees has made your hay fever worse

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No-one says reducing emissions from the agriculture sector will be easy. But it must be done, or farmers will suffer the most. Rachelle Meyer, Postdoctoral Fellow (Farm Systems Analysis), University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU should examine the potential for overlaps between sub-national and corporate emissions pledges and the bloc's climate policies to better understand their impact on the EU ETS and other initiatives, a report has found.

The Director of Policy & GR oversees government relations, contributes to policy development and helps manage relationships with external stakeholders. As Director, you will need to be/become an expert on climate change policy, especially the inner workings of carbon pricing. You’ll be the key contact with government staff, and other stakeholder organizations.

Canada can meet its goal of economy-wide net zero emissions by 2050, but to do so the government will need to implement more stringent climate policies, push existing GHG-cutting technologies, and back a variety of innovations to accelerate CO2 abatement, a new report found.

ERCST is seeking a (senior) policy analyst to join its team in Brussels to work on EU and international climate policy, starting as soon as possible.

The CDSB Secretariat is looking for an ambitious Stakeholder Engagement Manager to help build relationships with key policymakers and other stakeholders in its priority jurisdictions globally.

The birds were found dead in southern Bolivia and there are fears they may have died from poisoning.

CCAP is seeking a proactive, creative policy thinker with outstanding analytic ability capable of leading and innovating the organization’s carbon markets program.

António Guterres says Covid pandemic must not halt preparatory work for key summit in Glasgow

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Governments must step up their efforts ahead of vital climate talks this year by agreeing to negotiate formally online for the first time, the UN secretary general has said.

António Guterres told a meeting of governments and officials on Monday that formal negotiations for the Cop26 summit must be begun virtually owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and the constraints it had placed on governments meeting in person.

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Fifteen teams will get $1m to develop ideas, with a $50m prize awaiting the winner

The Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has offered a $100m (£73m) fund for inventions that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans.

Musk, who has built up an estimated $203bn fortune, said he wanted scientists to make a “truly meaningful impact” and achieve “carbon negativity, not neutrality”.

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Exchange operator ICE will relocate its EU carbon allowance trading from its London-based hub to the Netherlands in Q2 of this year due to Brexit-related limitations, it announced Monday.

A koala crossing one of South Australia’s busiest freeways led to a six-car collision as drivers abandoned their vehicles to mount a rescue of the 'calm' marsupial.

Nadia Tugwell  joined those trying to help the animal on Adelaide’s South Eastern Freeway near Crafers on Monday morning. 'When it saw me it instantly turned around to run backwards but the other lady was there and so we jumped it, bundled it up, and it ended up in my car because she had children,' Tugwell said.

While she waited for a koala centre rescuer to arrive, the animal made itself at home in her car. The volunteer released the uninjured koala back into the wild 1km from the freeway

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Australia’s junior coalition partner has flagged the possibility of keeping farming out of the country's net zero emissions pledge, a move that could potentially jeopardise the offset industry’s ambition to export agriculture-based carbon credits.

Transport expert says the emissions calculations used by Angus Taylor to justify his "do nothing" EV strategy are "fundamentally wrong."

The post Angus Taylor’s electric vehicle emissions claims “fundamentally flawed,” says expert appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Green Homes Grant system is overwhelmed by calls, the Environmental Audit Committee says.

Workers stood down at Shell's first big Australian solar project after reports of a dispute between contractors.

The post Work stops at Shell solar project after contractor dispute leads to stand-downs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rice’s whales already considered endangered by the US with a population estimated at fewer than 100

Genetic analysis and a close examination of the skulls from a group of baleen whales in the north-eastern Gulf of Mexico have revealed that they are a new species.

“I was surprised that there could be an unrecognized species of whale out there, especially in our backyard,” says Lynsey Wilcox, a geneticist with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who helped uncover the new species. “I never imagined I would be describing a new species in my career, so it is a very exciting discovery.”

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Researchers use drones to map 30,000 sq metres of Heron Island at high resolution so sea cucumbers can be counted

“In the wee hours of the morning … we weren’t too excited to be spooning poo,” reef ecologist Dr Vincent Raulot says.

But that’s exactly what he and a team of researchers did to calculate out how much poop was excreted by an estimated 3 million sea cucumbers on the 20 sq km Heron Island coral reef in Queensland.

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ASX-listed wind farm developer says it has decided to grant a number of suitors access to due diligence material to enable them to prepare binding acquisition proposals.

The post Tilt Renewables says it has “a number” of suitors, invites binding offers appeared first on RenewEconomy.