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EU’s over-subscribed hydrogen bank auction awards €720 mln to seven projects

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 01:59
The EU ETS-funded European Hydrogen bank has awarded nearly €720 million to seven renewable hydrogen projects, following its first competitive bidding process, the European Commission announced on Tuesday.
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EU to take action against 20 airlines on greenwashing concerns

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 01:43
The European Commission, together with its 27 member states' consumer authorities, has initiated action against 20 airlines to look at potential greenwashing practices, including the use of voluntary carbon credits, the executive announced on Tuesday.
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Plastic-eating bacteria help waste self-destruct

BBC - Wed, 2024-05-01 01:42
Scientists make a self-destructing plastic using plastic-eating bacteria in a sci-fi like development.
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G7 confirms commitment to end coal power by 2035, amid steps to help shift away from fossil fuels

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 01:34
G7 ministers confirmed their commitment to phase out unabated coal power generation by 2035, in a joint statement on Tuesday setting out how they intend to support and lead the global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and sale up clean energy. 
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Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-01 01:00

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Beneath the turquoise waters off Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral that, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today that coral outcrop, or bommie, shines snow white.

Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University, estimates this living boulder is at least 300 years old.

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Man who allegedly kicked bison in Yellowstone park arrested for incident

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-01 00:59

Clarence Yoder was reportedly injured by animal in return, before police arrested him for disorderly conduct and other charges

A man who allegedly harassed bison at Yellowstone national park by kicking one of the animals was injured in return and arrested in the first such encounter at the famed site this year.

Officials said on Monday that police received a report about a man kicking a bison in the leg and being injured by one of the animals about seven miles from the park’s entrance, near Seven Mile Bridge, on 21 April.

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BRIEFING: Fourth round of UN plastic talks closes amid disappointment due to insufficient progress

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 00:41
The latest round of negotiations on the UN plastic treaty wrapped up on Monday with shy steps forward on the draft text, due to be finalised by the end of the year, though observers levelled criticism over the lack of progress on production cuts and funding mechanisms.
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Multiple Indonesian projects move step closer to issuance under Bangkok-based voluntary carbon registry

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 00:08
A total of 10 carbon offsetting projects have now cleared the preliminary assessment of a Bangkok-based voluntary carbon registry, and are poised to collectively generate more than 4 million carbon credits annually.
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INTERVIEW: UK waste-to-energy operator builds case as carbon removals business

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 00:03
The UK’s second-largest operator of waste-to-energy facilities is eying opportunities as a removals provider as it looks to roll out carbon capture across its portfolio and it receives an increasing proportion of biogenic waste.
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BRIEFING: Investigation into Australian environmental offsets finds weak legal protections, regulators caving to developers

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-01 00:01
An investigation into Australia’s federal environmental offset scheme has found a ‘set and forget’ regulatory approach has led to areas earmarked for conservation being impacted or developed without consequence.
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EPA to ban most uses of chemical linked to dozens of deaths

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 23:25

Agency announces rule on methylene chloride, colorless liquid used for stripping paint, cleaning metal and decaffeinating coffee

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Tuesday that it will ban most uses of methylene chloride, a colorless liquid used for stripping paint, cleaning metal, and even decaffeinating coffee. The chemical has been linked to dozens of deaths and advocates have long called for its ban.

The new rule will require stronger worker safety protections from the harmful carcinogen for the remaining “critical” uses. All consumer use will be prohibited within a year, while most commercial and industrial use will be phased out within the next two years.

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UK aviation needs more incentives to cut emissions, experts say

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 23:24
UK aviation has a number of potential routes for decarbonising — from jet fuels to operational changes — but stronger policy is needed to incentivise and accelerate the shift in an industry where growing demand will otherwise push emissions upwards, industry experts said during a webinar on Tuesday.
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North Carolina child’s ‘monster in the closet’ was in fact 50,000 bees in the wall

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 23:11

Family discovers ‘terrifying’ gigantic bee colony in wall of home with blood-like honey oozing down wall and $20,000 in damage

A toddler told her mom that “monsters” were in her closet. But in fact, there were more than 50,000 bees there.

A mother of three children under four years old was met with a “terrifying” surprise after she and her husband investigated why a handful of bees had flown into the attic of the couple’s North Carolina home.

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New maritime pooling mechanism aims to dilute and monetise emissions intensity of EU ships

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 22:10
A Finnish startup is offering a pooling service to group high- and low-emissions intensity ships and facilitate their net compliance with the EU’s incoming FuelEU Maritime rules.
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Across the world, journalists are under threat for sharing the truth | Jonathan Watts

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 22:00

Last year was the most dangerous to be a reporter since 2015. Without the courage of correspondents risking everything to report from conflict areas, we could be at risk of ‘zones of silence’ spreading around the world

Conflict in Gaza, war in Ukraine, a battle over the global environment – the world is becoming an increasingly hostile place, particularly for frontline journalists.

Last year saw 99 killings of reporters, up 44% on 2022 and the highest toll since 2015.

Jonathan Watts is the Guardian’s global environment writer

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‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 22:00

National Park Service will reintroduce bears to Washington’s North Cascades and won’t remove horses from South Dakota park

Wildlife advocates are celebrating “incredible” news for the preservation of threatened bears, and a herd of historically significant wild horses, in separate north-western and upper midwestern national parks.

In North Dakota, the National Parks Service (NPS) has dropped a plan that would have seen about 200 wild horses, descended from those belonging to Native American tribes who fought the 1876 Great Sioux War, rounded up and removed from Theodore Roosevelt national park.

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‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 21:42

The far right are on the march in Germany and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has become the most popular party in several states. Immigration and a sense of being economically left behind have been driving factors in the rise in popularity but the Green party and the federal government’s climate policies have also borne the brunt of public anger. The Guardian travelled to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right

How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks in Germany

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Florida to allocate $1.5 bln to biodiversity restoration, water quality improvement

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 21:25
The US state of Florida has announced a $1.5-billion commitment to restore biodiversity and improve water quality, including what it claims to be the largest single-year investment ever made to protect the Everglade wetlands.
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