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I was looking forward to a magnificently white winter, with school closures and an otherworldly hush. The weather had other ideas

I was excited to experience a Boston winter – being in snow country was a genuine attraction of our trip here – and last week looked set to deliver. The headlines were threatening me with a good time (“predicted to be heaviest snowfall in two years” and pre-emptive school closures ran in ticker tape across the TV screen). Cars started sporting snowplough attachments, and the yoga teacher ended class not with namaste but with an ominous: “Good luck with the storm.”

My husband and I were giddy as toddlers. Would there be six inches of snow? Twelve? “When I wake up at 4am,” my husband said gleefully, studying his weather app, “it should already be white.” At the shop he asked, in all seriousness, if we should buy a sledge “before they all sell out”.

Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist

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South Korea has decided to expand funding support for overseas emissions reduction projects this year, as the East Asian country plans to use international carbon credits to fulfil more than 10% of its 2030 CO2 reduction target.

A voluntary carbon standard has announced it will exclusively focus on nature-based solutions and discontinue the eligibility of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodologies under its banner.

Animal welfare charities welcome the African Union decision to ban the donkey skin trade across the continent.

The Shanghai municipal government is set to hand out more carbon permits under its emissions trading scheme this year as some emitters have been added to the market.

System that brought heavy rains and strong winds to Northern Territory due to arrive in Western Australia

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued severe warnings across Northern Australia over the weekend due to a tropical cyclone called Lincoln. Making landfall on Friday afternoon as a category one Cyclone, Lincoln maintained its strength into the evening before being downgraded to a tropical low or ex-tropical cyclone (Ex-TC). By Saturday morning, 202mm of rain had fallen over 24 hours at Centre Island, located to the north-east of Borroloola and nearby to where Lincoln made landfall.

The Ex-TC then slowly tracked westwards across the Northern Territory as it brought heavy rainfall and damaging wind gusts to a series of districts. Warnings of flash flooding were issued by the BOM for a series of northern districts in the Northern Territory, with rainfall totals of 60-100mm forecast to fall within a six-hour period; 80-140mm expected over the 24-hour period. Tennant Creek, located in the west of the Barkly district, recorded 138.4mm of rain within 24 hours by Sunday morning.

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Governments should be required to disclose capacity payment arrangements. The fact that some coal generators get a capacity payment and others do not creates an unfair market.

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Macquarie's Eku Energy has broken ground on two new battery storage projects in England as it expands its global portfolio.

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Warning that soaring number of vessels threaten fish stocks and environment as geopolitics prevents agreement to regulate area

The scale of unregulated fishing in a disputed region close to the Falkland Islands has reached an “overwhelming” level that is threatening fish populations and the rich biodiversity of the area, politicians and environmentalists have claimed.

The “Blue Hole”, a stretch of the south Atlantic Ocean lying approximately 200 miles off the coast of Argentina and north of the Falkland Islands, is one of the only areas of sea that is not covered by a regional fishing agreement.

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The head of an Australian energy gentailer is unsure whether a newly-opened gas-fired power station will be able to meet its target to partially run off green hydrogen by 2025 due to a lack of supply.

The profits of the big five Western oil majors have reached nearly $300 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, according to analysis from an NGO.

Western Australia's main grid has smashed its operational demand record as parts of the state became the hottest place on the planet over the weekend.

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Ukraine has become the 29th country to sign up to Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), in the hope of generating carbon credits aligned with the Paris Agreement.

Federal and WA governments finalise joint funding of $140 million to kick-start construction of infrastructure underpinning the proposed Pilbara Hydrogen Hub.

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Green anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes, and among the longest. it’s remarkable this hidden species has slipped under the radar until now. Bryan G. Fry, Professor of Toxicology, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Right to roam campaigners say hundreds of "open country" locations are inaccessible to the public.

Market operator says wind farms worked "as designed" in Victoria storms, but Murdoch media leading extraordinary attack on renewables.

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Construction starts on 250MW, two-hour big battery that will store solar generated by Ipswich rooftops and help wean the Queensland grid off coal.

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Veteran environmentalist Bob Brown and two supporters have been charged over a logging protest in defence of Tasmania's giant trees.

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Giant blades complete might be the longest travelled by wind turbines parts in Australia to date.

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