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Each year new gas appliances lock in $1.2 billion in lifetime energy costs for households across the country. Victoria is bearing nearly $900m of this total cost.

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Ocean-going vessels with no-one on board - a vision of the future that's coming faster you think.

South Dakota legislators secured landowner rights in a number of final amendments made Wednesday to three carbon pipeline bills, which now proceed to be signed by Governor Kristi Noem (R).

A US-based grasslands soil carbon project developer last year paid ranchers $3 million for their sequestration efforts, it said Wednesday.

The carbon neutral LNG cargoes that had a brief and very public moment through 2020 and 2021 before mostly disappearing may make a resurgence, according to one expert speaking at a Singapore conference Wednesday.

Ten EU nations representing two-thirds of the bloc’s electricity generation capacity have committed to eliminate all fossil fuels from their power sectors by 2035, according to analysis by a campaign group.

Scientists link tiny particles in blood vessels with substantially higher risk of death

Doctors have warned of potentially life-threatening effects from plastic pollution after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics.

Researchers in Naples examined fatty plaques removed from the blood vessels of patients with arterial disease and found that more than half had deposits contaminated with tiny particles of polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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Voluntary carbon removals platform Puro has seen a record level of retirements in March, after a large volume were processed from a newly registered, large bioenergy project in the US.

Scientists used the 'sausage in a box' test to find out that dogs can be a "hard-wired" for obesity.

Australia’s increasing energy demand is inconsistent with global efforts to tackle climate change and suggests our housing energy policy requires a radical rethink. Kate Wingrove, PhD Candidate at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong Emma Heffernan, Associate Professor in Architecture, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Swiss carbon project developer has entered into a 5-year agreement to supply Shell with carbon removal credits generated from a biochar facility in Mexico.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday approved a series of climate-related financial disclosure rules for certain registered companies, in a highly-anticipated decision that notably excluded the Scope 3 emissions reporting requirements originally proposed.

A victory for Donald Trump over incumbent Joe Biden at the November presidential elections could add an extra 4 billion tonnes to US emissions by the end of the decade, according to a report released Wednesday.

Scientists say warming seas have allowed the species to return to the Atlantic, where it is locally extinct.

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) plans to road test its flexibility claim idea with companies over the next seven to eight months, despite it clashing with SBTi rules.

A UK-based carbon consulting firm has partnered with US tech giant Salesforce to develop a carbon reporting and reduction service for corporations, the companies announced on Wednesday.

The EU fired the starting gun on Wednesday on a two-year period to implement its new directive on Empowering Consumers in the Green Transition (ECGT), which for the first time bans 'climate neutral' claims based on carbon offsetting schemes.

Unilever is stepping up efforts to reduce absolute emissions in the 2020s while still growing its business, in an effort to achieve an existing net zero goal across its value chain by 2039, the consumer goods giant announced on Wednesday.

Expectations of exponential  growth in the biochar carbon removal market will split between a low-cost artisanal approach focusing on smallholder farmers in the Global South and high investment large industrial facilities in the Global North, finds a report.

Scientists confirm cetacean’s presence but cite impact of climate change which has made North-west Passage ice-free in summer

Scientists have confirmed the presence of a whale off New England that went extinct in the Atlantic Ocean two centuries ago – an exciting discovery, but one they said that illustrates the impact of climate change on sea life.

Researchers with the New England Aquarium in Boston found the gray whale while flying 30 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 1 March. The whale, which can weigh 60,000 pounds (27,215kg), typically lives in the northern Pacific Ocean.

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