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Japanese firm offers carbon credits at the pump

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-14 17:27
A Japanese petroleum supplier is offering its corporate clients to buy carbon credits to offset their petrol and diesel oil.
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New nature reserve given £2m in lottery funding

BBC - Wed, 2024-02-14 16:58
It is hoped the creation of a marshland site will be a "corridor" for wildlife including wading birds.
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Birdwatch: On the trail of the shy albatross in Australia

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-14 16:00

On an oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere, our writer encounters the only albatross species endemic to Australia

As one seabird enthusiast once proclaimed: “Real birds eat fish.” That was certainly true of the species I was hoping to encounter on my first oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere.

A dozen of us boarded the first Sydney Pelagics trip of the year, chugging out of the famous harbour early one January morning. We soon left the silver gulls and crested terns behind, before coming across the first of a quintet of shearwaters: wedge-tailed, short-tailed, flesh-footed, Hutton’s and a single streaked, a scarce visitor from Japan.

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Saving Kenya’s black rhinos – in pictures

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-14 15:00

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has successfully translocated 21 eastern black rhinos to a region where they have been extinct for 50 years. Here’s how they caught, transported and released these critically endangered 1,400kg creatures to their new home

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Are you ready for the collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? No, you are not | First Dog on the Moon

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-02-14 14:58

It could be next Thursday or maybe Friday

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The world’s coral reefs are bigger than we thought – but it took satellites, snorkels and machine learning to see them

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-02-14 13:56
Our new maps show coral reefs are more extensive than we thought. Mitchell Lyons, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Stuart Phinn, Professor of Geography, Director - Remote Sensing Research Centre, Chair - Earth Observation Australia, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Australia’s Garnaut proposes Carbon Solutions Levy to underwrite transition

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-14 11:24
Two prominent Australian economists on Wednesday laid out their updated vision for how they see the country becoming a renewable energy superpower, chiefly by introducing a levy on all fossil fuel production facilities and imports.
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Officials call for cap-and-trade reauthorisation in California, suggest programme amendments to ease consumer costs

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-14 10:54
A joint hearing on Tuesday regarding California's cap-and-trade scheme heard participants voice support for programme extension beyond 2030, although stakeholders proposed several improvements to better support disadvantaged communities.
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NZ votes the red admiral butterfly ‘bug of the year’ – how to make your garden its home

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-02-14 10:50
The native red admiral is less common than it used to be, but we can all help threatened bug species by ensuring they have the right habitats to thrive in. Janice Lord, Associate Professor in Botany, University of Otago Connal McLean, Natural History Technician – Invertebrates, Te Papa Tongarewa Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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EU ETS2 needs historically huge emissions reductions from cars, buildings to prevent “very high” allowance prices, study warns

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-14 10:13
Emissions covered by the upcoming EU ETS2 for road transportation and buildings will need to fall over five times faster than historic reduction rates in order to meet the scheme's cap and prevent "very high" allowance prices, according to a new study.
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Washington Senate passes WCI linkage bill

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-14 07:41
A bill to facilitate linking Washington’s carbon market with the California-Quebec WCI scheme passed the Senate chamber on Monday, bringing the jurisdictions one step closer in process that could take years.
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Enrolment imminent for $80-mln US climate-smart ag programme

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-02-14 07:41
An $80-million climate-smart agriculture programme in the US aiming to test a new model to measure net GHG impacts will soon be open for enrolment in four states.
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A major blackout left 500,000 Victorians without power – but it shows our energy system is resilient

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-02-14 07:10
The event has prompted questions about the reliability of the state’s electricity grid. But it’s important to note these extreme winds would have seriously disrupted any power system. Roger Dargaville, Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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