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London company SEN's ultra high-definition cameras intend to stream spectacular views of Earth.

London company SEN's ultra high-definition cameras intend to stream spectacular views of Earth.

Zero hopes to build a commercial-scale production plant combining its technology with green hydrogen, renewable power, and carbon capture.

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A dairy farm in regional Victoria has installed a solar and battery storage system to milk its cows more cheaply in the early mornings and evenings.

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Regulating can ensure Australian businesses, communities, First Nations people and workers can reap more of the accelerating energy transition.

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CEC launches national advertising campaign against nuclear push as former chief scientist Alan Finkel says pausing renewables for nuclear will set back climate action for two decades.

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A proposal to codify a new geological epoch based on humanity's influence on Earth is rebuffed.

Our plant species are pickier about their preferred temperature range than you would expect. That means many will have to move south, seeking cooler climes. Julian Schrader, Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Czech utility CEZ has bought over 6 million EUAs for its 2025 compliance at an average €96 per tonne, according to its 2023 annual report published Thursday.

MSPs vote for controls as it emerges another hen harrier has vanished in area ‘notorious’ for persecution

Grouse moors across Scotland will be required to hold licences and could face shooting bans as part of radical measures to combat bird of prey persecution passed by MSPs on Thursday.

The Scottish parliament voted for the controls amid intense pressure from conservation scientists and campaigners after decades of illegal attacks on birds of prey by gamekeepers instructed to protect grouse on shooting estates from being eaten.

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Microsoft has signed a pre-purchase agreement with a Swiss carbon project developer for 95,000 voluntary carbon removal (CDR) credits from a biochar facility in Mexico, following shortly after Shell struck a similar deal.

Growing enthusiasm for nuclear energy was put on display at the first-ever Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels on Thursday, but a new generation of nuclear power plants will not be possible without access to large amounts of finance, leaders stressed, while also acknowledging the industry's image problem.

A Dutch civil rights campaigner group has placed the avoided deforestation voluntary carbon sector on red alert with a pledge to soon publish a ‘wider investigation’ on offsetting and human rights, which builds on its covert probe that uncovered sexual offences by senior staff at a Kenyan project.

A Brazilian environmental assets startup has released its methodology for measuring biodiversity impacts in farms and ranches, paving the way for issuing biodiversity credits.

Drax has agreed to purchase 1,000 tonnes of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) removals credits from a Norwegian supplier for €400 per tonne.

The fossil's bug-eyed appearance reminded researchers of the famous Muppet.

The UK has opened a public consultation Thursday on proposals for the design and administration of its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), including on how carbon pricing will be integrated within the new mechanism.

Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years

The battle lines have been drawn over Australia’s energy future.

With the nation signed up to net zero emissions by 2050, the Albanese Labor government is committed to renewables. The Coalition wants nuclear.

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Spanish energy firm Iberdrola will direct around one-third of a €41 billion investment plan to the US, as it looks to capitalise on subsidies for clean energy solutions.

Nature tech start-ups saw an 18% increase in venture capital (VC) investments in 2023 compared to the previous year, with significant growth in early-stage involvement, especially in the MRV and biodiversity credits category.