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Exclusive: Revelation comes after agency’s chair told MPs in May the practice had only recently come to light

The Environment Agency knew raw sewage was being illegally dumped into English rivers from wastewater treatment works a decade ago, a leaked report shows.

However, the agency’s chair told MPs in May that the practice had only recently come to light.

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British Gas has offset its energy production using hundreds of thousands of old carbon credits from a Chinese industrial gas project that have been banned in Europe due to their questionable environmental integrity.

Wildlife groups praised the move making it illegal to capture, kill, injure or disturb them.

Rural rough sleepers face harsh conditions as a taskforce warns of a hidden homelessness "crisis".

Emitters cut down their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length to end five straight weeks of growth, while financial players followed suit in both the WCI and RGGI markets, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

California's cap-and-trade programme grew to a record number of accounts in the third quarter amid interest from speculative and compliance entities, according to data published Friday.

In Brazil’s presidential elections that kick off this Sunday, pitting far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro against far-left former president and current front runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the country’s path forward on climate policy – including the fate of a carbon market – hangs in the balance.

For too long we’ve dismissed Indigenous knowledge of the natural world. At Sydney’s botanic garden, signage is starting to reflect Aboriginal names

Like all botanic gardens, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney is a classic artefact of the activities that took place during the colonisation of Australia in the 18th and 19th century.

It was established to create a patch of landscape that mirrored those found in the United Kingdom, with the aim of “discovering” and documenting the floral biodiversity of New South Wales (in itself a name reflecting the perspective of those holding power).

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EU nations lack the legal means to apply corresponding adjustments for carbon projects on their territories, a report commissioned by the Finnish government pointed out on Friday, complicating matters for companies seeking to buy carbon credits across the bloc.

A Canada-based voluntary carbon investment firm has agreed to buy around 2.5 mln VCUs from a Indian rise farming project.

Major clips of VCS-certified REDD credits lacking CCB co-benefit certification were being offered at a $5 discount to VCS-CCB units on Friday, highlighting a hefty premium for nature units that can meet the specification requirements for delivery into futures contracts on the CME exchange.

The 27-nation EU rapidly sealed a “political agreement” on an emergency package aimed at mitigating spiralling energy prices on Friday, in what was only the first - and arguably least important - part of a meeting largely dominated by differences on how to intervene in the gas market.

Australia's Quinbrook has locked in big profits from the sale of a US wind, solar and storage company it bought as a start-up five years ago.

The post Quinbrook bags huge profit on sale of US wind, solar and battery company appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Some European carbon retailers and consultancies have started to request prices for voluntary carbon market credits in euros rather than dollars after the Eurozone's common currency sunk below the greenback.

Airlines head up the list of companies by sector that have bought and retired credits in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), according to analysts that nonetheless encountered considerable information gaps.

Photos and videos of sharks and other marine life swimming in suburban flood waters make for popular hoaxes during heavy storms. But a mobile phone video filmed during Hurricane Ian’s assault on south-west Florida isn’t just another fishy story. 

A large, dark fish with distinct dorsal fins was filmed thrashing around an inundated Fort Myers backyard. Experts were divided over whether the clip showed a shark or another large fish. Nevertheless, some Twitter users nicknamed the hapless fish the 'street shark'

• Shark tale? Video of large fish in flooded Florida yard goes viral

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Sphagnum moss found to drastically slow down rainwater runoff in Peak District ‘outdoor laboratory’ study

A “superhero” moss can significantly reduce the risk and severity of flooding for communities living in downstream areas, researchers have found.

Scientists from the conservation group Moors for the Future Partnership who conducted a six-year study into sphagnum moss found that planting it in upland areas could dramatically slow the rate at which water runs off the hillsides, preventing river catchments being inundated with water downstream.

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EUAs extended gains into a second day on Friday as traders continued to cover short positions after prices had tested support levels, while energy markets eased as the EU ministers agreed on a package of measures to address energy costs, but failed to agree on a price cap on natural gas imports.

A Japanese oil and gas company has become the first to release a third-party verification report of its handling of “carbon neutral” LNG, while announcing that from the current financial year it will use domestic J-Credits instead of international units for such purposes.

Targeting the distribution of revenues directly to households and users most in need of financial support is the most effective means of defending carbon pricing in the face of mounting political and social pressure to reduce energy costs this winter and beyond, according to research published Friday.