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Bolivia moves to centralise newly legal voluntary carbon market -media
More federal cash needed for research before marine CDR can scale in the US, Congress hears
BRIEFING: Experts confident of voluntary carbon market recovery, but not in 2024
EU, US beginning to see eye-to-eye on Article 6 standards, says bloc’s lead negotiator
Taiwan plans emissions trading scheme, eyes initial pilot phase -minister
Climate ‘divide and rule’ in new EU Commission might just work, experts say
Affordable nuclear? Dutton’s plan would add nearly $1,000 a year to the power bill of a family of four
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10 children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded – in pictures
Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and more created their own companion pieces to kids’ works celebrating sharks and rays – and they’re on display at the Australian Museum now
Continue reading...‘Australia’s next rabbit plague’: calls for feral deer in Victoria to be considered a pest instead of wildlife
Victoria is home to perhaps the largest population and the only mainland state with ‘legislative relic’ of protections
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Land holders and managers along with landcare and environment groups want Victoria to remove protections for feral deer, as booming populations wreak havoc on agriculture and the local environment.
Jordan Crook, from the Victorian National Parks Association, said recognising deer as pests – alongside foxes, rabbits and pigs – would bring Victoria in line with the rest of mainland Australia.
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Continue reading...A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at | Helen Sullivan
In West Africa, Pygmy hippos are said to carry a diamond in their mouths, which they use to light their way through the forest
The thing to know about the pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng is that she is angry, but also she is sweet. In photographs, she is often blurry and at all times, she is shiny. She secretes something known as “blood sweat” which is actually her sunscreen.
She is a hippopotamidae. She is stout. She runs like a piglet and has a snout like a very, very new puppy’s. She is very fast.
Continue reading...Google buys first nature-based carbon removal credits from Brazilian project
CDR credits issuer set to boost monitoring, improve accuracy after fresh finance round
Biodiversity net gain register to list another 330 units, project developer says
Consultancy launches new voluntary carbon platform to offer credits to clients
Australia sets course for national ecosystem accounting
Australasian group taps nature markets in investor toolkit
UPDATE – ICVCM adopting ‘blunt’ approach to assessing voluntary carbon integrity after ruling out renewables, say analysts
Swiss building materials producer invests in low-carbon cement startup
Euro Markets: Midday Update
Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit
Exclusive: Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
The amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales and Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of times higher.
Changes to regulations in Great Britain mean more than 100 items are now allowed to carry more pesticides when sold to the public, ranging from potatoes to onions, grapes to avocados, and coffee to rice.
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