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Voluntary carbon removals platform Puro has seen a record level of retirements in March, after a large volume were processed from a newly registered, large bioenergy project in the US.

Scientists used the 'sausage in a box' test to find out that dogs can be a "hard-wired" for obesity.

Australia’s increasing energy demand is inconsistent with global efforts to tackle climate change and suggests our housing energy policy requires a radical rethink. Kate Wingrove, PhD Candidate at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong Emma Heffernan, Associate Professor in Architecture, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Swiss carbon project developer has entered into a 5-year agreement to supply Shell with carbon removal credits generated from a biochar facility in Mexico.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday approved a series of climate-related financial disclosure rules for certain registered companies, in a highly-anticipated decision that notably excluded the Scope 3 emissions reporting requirements originally proposed.

A victory for Donald Trump over incumbent Joe Biden at the November presidential elections could add an extra 4 billion tonnes to US emissions by the end of the decade, according to a report released Wednesday.

Scientists say warming seas have allowed the species to return to the Atlantic, where it is locally extinct.

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) plans to road test its flexibility claim idea with companies over the next seven to eight months, despite it clashing with SBTi rules.

A UK-based carbon consulting firm has partnered with US tech giant Salesforce to develop a carbon reporting and reduction service for corporations, the companies announced on Wednesday.

The EU fired the starting gun on Wednesday on a two-year period to implement its new directive on Empowering Consumers in the Green Transition (ECGT), which for the first time bans 'climate neutral' claims based on carbon offsetting schemes.

Unilever is stepping up efforts to reduce absolute emissions in the 2020s while still growing its business, in an effort to achieve an existing net zero goal across its value chain by 2039, the consumer goods giant announced on Wednesday.

Expectations of exponential  growth in the biochar carbon removal market will split between a low-cost artisanal approach focusing on smallholder farmers in the Global South and high investment large industrial facilities in the Global North, finds a report.

Scientists confirm cetacean’s presence but cite impact of climate change which has made North-west Passage ice-free in summer

Scientists have confirmed the presence of a whale off New England that went extinct in the Atlantic Ocean two centuries ago – an exciting discovery, but one they said that illustrates the impact of climate change on sea life.

Researchers with the New England Aquarium in Boston found the gray whale while flying 30 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 1 March. The whale, which can weigh 60,000 pounds (27,215kg), typically lives in the northern Pacific Ocean.

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The European Parliament and the Council of EU member states struck a deal on Wednesday to improve the management of the bloc's airspace in a way that is meant to reduce CO2 emissions, after being stuck for more than a decade with EU states.

The Science Based Targets initiative is quietly pushing ahead with a long-running, contentious process of defining a credible, voluntary net zero pathway for an industry in which decarbonisation is a question of survival: oil and gas. 

Dr Mike Barratt, who teaches in Devon, is pilot of the mission to the International Space Station.

Dr Mike Barratt, who teaches in Devon, is pilot of the mission to the International Space Station.

Focus turns to criminal investigation after NSW Environment Protection Authority completes its trawl through the supply chain

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Mulch contaminated with asbestos has been found at 75 sites across greater Sydney, with the New South Wales environmental watchdog turning focus to its criminal investigation after the completion of contact tracing.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) will on Thursday announce it has finished tracking mulch through the complex supply chain after asbestos was first discovered by a parent in mulch at a park in the inner west more than two months ago.

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A Dublin-based coffee group has purchased a batch of biodiversity credits to support nature enhancement at Ireland's Dunsany Nature Reserve, claimed as the first transaction of its kind in the country and the second in Europe.

A court in Rome decided on Wednesday not to intervene in a case presented by the civil society against the Italian state claiming that the country's climate policies are insufficient to achieve its national goals.