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Margaret Ann Splawn, a London-based carbon markets veteran, remains unconscious in hospital after a cycling accident two months ago.

Joanna Lumley’s call to free UK elephants has exposed flaws in conservation claims

Every afternoon at London Zoo until the early 1970s a table laid with cups, saucers and a teapot would be set out for the chimpanzees. An amusing set piece was anticipated: chimps throwing crockery at each other and jumping on chairs. But there was an early complication.

Chimpanzees are exceptionally good at mastering tools. They quickly learned to use the pot correctly and would sit politely at the table, taking afternoon tea.

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South Australia announces winners of landmark green hydrogen tender that will play key role in state's advance to 100 pct renewables and plans to "ship sun beyond our shores."

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The UK has some of the world's most powerful tides - and is well placed to exploit their power.

As if things weren’t bad enough, Storm Babet sounds like it’s out of a dark Scandinavian play. It’s enough to have us weeping into our starched aprons

So, this is how the world ends – not with a bang but with the cold clicking of claws belonging to the 10-inch-wide mitten crabs that are terrorising the freshwater population of England. These rapidly proliferating creatures have cute fuzz-sheathed pincers that look like Victorian ladies’ winter muffs, but they can pin down a prawn and rip off its shell with nary a tremor. Before the mitten crabs, the scare was about bedbugs. Before that it was evil AI and killer robots. This is all in the past three weeks.

It’s as if the sheer misery, violence and horror of the headlines have infected us with such despair that we’re fixating on anything, big or small, that can do us harm, because it’s all feeling just a little bit like the Third World War, isn’t it?

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The Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has formalised a biodiversity and climate change agreement with a major renewable energy firm in a bid to drive larger private-sector investments into nature-based solutions.

Government and gas-focused industry body resist conclusion that heat pumps are ‘only viable’ option for heating UK homes

The government and sections of UK industry will continue to back the prospect of using hydrogen for home heating, despite a clear verdict against the technology from the UK’s infrastructure watchdog.

The National Infrastructure Commission advised this week, after an exhaustive investigation of the technology, that hydrogen was not suitable for heating homes. The report was unambiguous: “The Commission’s analysis demonstrates that there is no public policy case for hydrogen to be used to heat individual buildings. It should be ruled out as an option to enable an exclusive focus on switching to electrified heat.”

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The government announces new recycling rules but critics say the system is "fundamentally broken".

Britain's lush, humid woodlands are home to weird and wonderful lichens not found anywhere else on Earth.

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Compliance entities continued the trend over the last month of growing V23 California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) holdings while reducing V24 net length, as speculators continued to build V24 net positions, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed Friday.

Market operator says Australia's main grid breaks renewable energy production record for the second time this week - both on working days.

The post Australia’s main grid hits new renewable energy record – on another weekday appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA

Warmer ocean temperatures have likely caused the sudden and shocking disappearance of billions of snow crabs in Alaska, which had previously baffled scientists and environmentalists, a new study has shown.

The eastern Bering Sea snow crabs, once thought to be overfished, actually starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature “increased their caloric needs considerably”, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in the study.

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A carbon pipeline project developer on Friday cancelled its plans to transport and bury CO2 from biofuels production across the US Midwest, as issues with state permitting agencies and landowners impact yet another entity.

The loss of plant biodiversity in global grasslands can cause terrestrial carbon stocks to wane, with the reasoning behind the phenomenon going against researchers’ original hypothesis, according to a study published Thursday.

A climate tech startup has launched Friday an artificial intelligence (AI) product that aims to speed up and pare down the cost of carbon project development documentation, by using downloaded data from thousands of previous examples in the market.

Talks to set up a UN facility to compensate for climate-related loss and damage ran deep into overtime on Friday as developing nations united in opposition to a US idea to have the World Bank host the vehicle.

The managing director of advisory firm Carbon Financial Services (CFS) and former head of global carbon at exchange platform CBL, both owned by Xpansiv, has announced he is leaving the market infrastructure company after nine years.

The shipping sector’s decarbonisation hinges on the availability of low-carbon fuels, the secretary general of one of the largest global shipping organisations told Carbon Pulse, while also advocating a 'carbon contribution factor' to be promoted at upcoming high-level climate talks.

Germany is at risk of seeing a potentially dramatic spike in fuel prices in 2027 should the country’s domestic carbon pricing system transition to the EU ETS2, a think-tank has warned.