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In a revolutionary approach, scientists are hoping that modifying the marsupial’s genes to resist cane toads’ toxin will save it from extinction

In a laboratory in the University of Melbourne earlier this year, PhD student Pierre Ibri was running an experiment that could prove to be a critical step in an audacious plan to save Australia’s endangered northern quoll.

In plastic trays were groups of tissue cells of another Australian marsupial – the common and mouse-like fat-tailed dunnart – that he was subjecting to the toxin of the cane toad, an invasive amphibian that has cut a swathe through populations of native animals in Australia’s north.

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Gigawatt scale solar and battery project near large coal fired power station gets green tick from federal government.

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A solar storm of this scale can cause disruptions to infrastructure such as the power grid.

The local wildlife trust hopes the tunnels will boost the reptile's numbers by encouraging mating.

Retirement of coal- and lignite-fired power plants by EU member states could lead to as many as 160 million EUAs being voluntarily cancelled by 2030, with even more set to be deleted after that date, forcing prices higher as supply is removed from the market, according to an analyst.

A Mexican standards body has launched a new version of an international offsetting standard adapted to the national context as the country moves to pass new transparency regulations governing the voluntary carbon market (VCM), according to a local media report.

The Los Lagos region of Chile aims to implement Chile’s first offsetting exchange to facilitate the purchase of carbon credits and decarbonise local industries, per a local paper from the city of Osorno.

As a scientist, I’m faced with indifference and a failure to understand the reality of the climate crisis every day. We must wake people up

• Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL

Do you find climate breakdown funny? Do you think it’s a laughing matter that we are on track to bequeath to our children and their children a planet changed for the worse beyond all recognition? I don’t – and I’m sure the presenters of Radio 4’s Today programme don’t either. But I couldn’t help feeling we were having a bit of a Don’t Look Up moment yesterday, hearing them brush off predictions by top climate scientists that our world will end up at least 2.5C hotter as depressing and “gloomy”. This is not to say that laughter and grim news shouldn’t or can’t go together. I work with comedians to help get the climate crisis message across, but we use humour to aid understanding and to help cope, not to denigrate and mock.

The truth is that most people, including many professional journalists, and most politicians, don’t really “get” climate breakdown. Partly this reflects a heads-in-the-sand attitude, but mainly it flags a poor understanding of just how bad things are set to get.

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Group says two women in their 80s took hammer and chisel to protective glass at British Library

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass around Magna Carta at the British Library.

The Rev Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher, targeted the protective enclosure with a hammer and chisel on Friday morning.

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Two carbon registries will begin offering updates about projects throughout their lifecycle in a bid to improve voluntary market (VCM) transparency post-validation and verification, according to representatives speaking at Carbon Forward Turkiye on Friday.

Turkiye’s national development, including socioeconomic and ecological dimensions, are at the forefront of stakeholder interest in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and potential Article 6 engagement, Carbon Forward Turkiye heard Friday in Izmir.

Turkish renewable energy companies say they are struggling to develop projects because of the high costs, long timelines, and administrative burdens of certifying their emission reductions, combined with the low prices and uncertainty in the voluntary carbon market.

Nepal should make it easier for private sector actors to engage in Article 6 projects to help make sure the country can meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said Friday.

European carbon allowance prices climbed to their highest in four months on Friday morning as determined buying took prices above two key technical levels, before the market gave back all its gains amid profit-taking ahead of the weekend.

A guide for adopting nature-positive practices across renewable energy sites has been published by Foresight Group, alongside details of an endangered butterfly conservation project on a solar farm.

A Belgian manufacturer of lime, limestone, and mineral-based products has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate with a British carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm. 

Trust builds passes under road bisecting Berkshire commons for increasingly endangered venomous snake

How did the adder cross the road? It didn’t – it was too scared.

Now, however, road-shy populations of the increasingly endangered snake are being given a helping hand with the construction of Britain’s first adder tunnels.

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CO2 allowance prices in China’s national emissions market fell below the 100 yuan ($13.84) mark over the past week after hitting a record high in late April, with traders and analysts expecting short-term fluctuations amid policy uncertainties.

Exclusive: Wopke Hoekstra says EU must press ahead with cutting greenhouse gases and use policy to bring about economic benefits

Europe’s climate chief has warned against politicians trying to use the climate crisis as a wedge issue in the forthcoming EU parliament elections, calling instead for climate policy that will bring wider economic benefits.

Wopke Hoekstra, the EU commissioner for climate action, said Europe had no choice but to press ahead with strong measures to cut greenhouse gases, whoever was in power, but added that more attention was needed to help businesses thrive in a low-carbon world.

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Shell has dismissed as inaccurate reports by Greenpeace and the Financial Times claiming the oil major made over C$200 million ($146 mln) selling "phantom" carbon credits that it earned for emissions reductions that never happened.