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Whether wind farms affect house prices is a live issue for anti wind farm campaigners in Australia, but new research out of the US shows it's nothing to worry about.

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Climate extremes are now causing measurable losses in food production and displacing millions. But some scientists says the situation is worse than portrayed by WMO.

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The federal Coalition insists the lights will go out in transition to wind and solar. AEMO has now released a video explaining why they won't, following CSIRO's defence of science.

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As Donald Trump prepares for this year’s US presidential election, he continues to summarise his energy policies with one simple borrowed slogan: “Drill, baby, drill.”

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Ambulance officers treated the man, believed to have been bitten by an eastern brown snake, but he died later in Townsville hospital

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A man has died in hospital after being bitten multiple times by a snake in north Queensland.

Queensland ambulance service paramedics were called to a Deeragun property after 3pm on Tuesday. The man was in a critical condition and had sustained “multiple” snake bites at a separate address. He was taken to Townsville hospital but later died.

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An environmental commodities tech provider is building an interoperable digital platform for fungible carbon credits that can be traded and tracked across a global marketplace, it told a conference Tuesday.

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Footage supplied to Guardian Australia shows koalas clinging to falling blue gums as logging occurs on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The footage was taken across two days in November 2023 and January 2024. Logging has been stopped while an investigation takes place.

• Investigation into logging on Kangaroo Island under way after release of ‘horrific images’ of dead koalas

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The draft regulation for the national voluntary carbon market (VCM) in Mexico poses “nearly zero” risk to project developers in its current form due to deep structural issues, a conference heard from a legal expert Tuesday.

A US agency is looking to begin formal engagement with voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants this summer as part of its goal to enhance the quality and confidence of carbon removals, agency staff said Tuesday.

Here are four ideas that could improve our transmission outcomes: Dynamic Line Ratings, Advanced conductors, painting towers, and monopoles.

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Many common insects seem to disappear during autumn and winter – but they are still around. Making your garden a good winter habitat can help these vital pollinators survive and thrive. 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.

The European Commission will publish preliminary 2023 verified emissions figures for the EU ETS on Apr. 3, it announced late Tuesday.

Climate Change Committee finds Scottish government has repeatedly failed to make cuts required by law

Scotland’s pledge to cut its climate emissions by 75% by 2030 is “no longer credible” and cannot be met, the UK’s climate watchdog has said.

In a damning report submitted to the Scottish parliament, the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) accused the Scottish government of repeatedly failing to live up to its legally binding targets.

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Pressure is mounting on the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to recognise the use of voluntary carbon credits in setting and achieving emission targets after a comprehensive survey of large corporations found the move would accelerate their spend in the market by 9% a year.

The world’s largest oil and gas companies are far from aligning with the Paris Agreement’s goals, instead targeting new fossil fuel developments and production in the near term, according to analysis published on Wednesday.

The first New Zealand ETS auction for 2024 has partially cleared, with 2.974 million NZUs being sold, the first time the government-run auctions have sold units since Dec. 2022.

Sydney, Australia – EnergyLab, Australia’s leading climate tech startup accelerator, today launched its inaugural Decarb Debrief, which reviews its impact in 2023 and found that its alumni collectively raised a record-breaking AUD $289 million during the year, with Australian-based startups securing AUD $124 million of the total amount. The findings show the significant interest in […]

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We’ve known about dryland salinity for a century. But while we’ve made progress, the problem hasn’t yet been solved. Nik Callow, Associate Professor - Geography, The University of Western Australia David Pannell, Professor and Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia Ed Barrett-Lennard, Professorial fellow, Murdoch University Richard George, Honorary fellow, The University of Western Australia Tom Hatton, Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Although enhanced rock weathering has picked up in popularity as a method of CO2 removal, a US-based research group found there was a significant range in its effectiveness across studies and that results should not be taken at face value.