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Decade of austerity blamed for impending closure of inner-city spaces that provide meals and outdoor activities

All nine of Leicester’s remaining adventure playgrounds are to lose all their council funding and are beginning the process of shutting down.

Three are already handing out redundancy notices and setting dates for closure in September with playworkers at another warning they are “just a few months behind”.

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Electrifying and decarbonising our homes can be a minefield, and many people end up thinking, why bother. A new website is now trying to take some of the pain out of the process.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: Taking the pain out of an energy upgrade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

One of Australia's newest wind farms has topped the ranks for best performing wind assets in July, with a capacity factor of 55.2 per cent.

The post New wind farm tops charts for best performance in July, Queensland slam-dunks solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's volatile electricity market has claimed another scalp, with a small renewables-focused retailer placed in liquidation and its roughly 800 customers divvied up among the big-three gen-tailers.

The post Energy retailer behind shared renewables collective collapses amid fresh market turmoil appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Yes, there are uncertainties about offshore wind. But uncertainty is not an excuse to delay climate action or to derail productive discussions with myths and unsupported claims.

The post I’m an Illawarra-based marine ecologist. I want an honest discussion about offshore wind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW government confirms pre-election price spike fears behind decision to extend Eraring. But the modelling it relied upon has already been mugged by reality.

The post NSW confirms Eraring closure delay driven by fear of pre-election price shocks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013

A large-scale vaccination programme could help eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in badgers, according to a first-of-its-kind study with “really promising” results for cattle farmers, whose herds have been devastated by the disease.

Over four years, researchers vaccinated 265 badgers across 12 farms in Cornwall. They found the percentage of badgers testing positive for bTB fell from 16% to zero.

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Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show ‘staggering’ changes in the Alps

A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers.

Duncan Porter, a software developer from Bristol, posted photos that were taken in the same spot at the Rhone glacier in August 2009 and August 2024. The white ice that filled the background has shrunk to reveal grey rock. A once-small pool at the bottom, out of sight in the original, has turned into a vast green lake.

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund consultancy work to determine the potential of nature or biodiversity credits in funding an expansion of an initiative seeking to protect and restore the massive East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF).

The Beijing municipal government will auction 1.5 million carbon allowances under its pilot emissions trading scheme in early September, with a price floor for the sale to be set later.

Argentine legislation passed recently to boost investment is back in the spotlight due to federal-provincial tensions over a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, with key provisions of the law mirroring a controversial energy treaty that the EU opted to exit this year.

There are hopes AI may be the silver bullet we need to save the environment – but it comes with downsides. Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Seyedali Mirjalili, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Business and Hospitality, Torrens University Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A New Brunswick-based timber company announced in Q2 financial results last week that it sold 600,000 credits from a Maine improved forest management (IFM) project for C$19.7 million ($14.3 mln), adding that it plans to continue its involvement in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) moving forward.

RGGI allowance (RGA) prices retreated over the last week from all-time highs, with market observers saying that signs point to a looming return to lower price ranges after valuations on the secondary market have entered historic levels recently.

Carbon Pulse rounds up developments in Latin American and Caribbean markets for the week ending Aug. 4, which saw several countries push domestic green industrial transition measures as others courted environmentally damaging sectors in a bid to attract foreign investment.

Glacier national park rangers believe they have recovered remains of Siddhant Vitthal Patil, who fell into creek in July

Glacier national park rangers believe they have recovered the body of a man who drowned over the July 4 weekend, park officials in Montana said.

Siddhant Vitthal Patil, 26, of India fell into Avalanche Creek on 6 July, but the creek was running too fast to recover his body.

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Analysts have once again lowered their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) price forecasts to account for the extended rulemaking timeline, and expect Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) prices to remain steady despite being "overvalued" due to the ongoing threat of a repeal.

EnergyAustralia has reported a return to profits in the first half, courtesy of the jump in wholesale electricity prices it helped engineer in its key markets.

The post High wholesale electricity prices help EnergyAustralia bounce back into the black appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have proposed establishing a separate budget for carbon removal alongside the existing global carbon budget for CO2 emissions.

We all say we like recycling. But contamination rates are high. Victoria’s government hopes a new bin for glass and recycling soft plastic can help. Bhavna Middha, ARC DECRA and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Ralph Horne, Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.