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Research highlights benefits forests bring surrounding regions in terms of cooler air and more rainfall

Deforestation has a far greater impact on regional temperatures than previously believed, according to a new study of the Brazilian Amazon that shows agricultural businesses would be among the biggest beneficiaries of forest conservation.

The paper has important political implications because farmers in Amazonian states have, until now, led the way in forest destruction on the assumption that they will make money by clearing more land.

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In May, the Northern Territory government greenlit the mammoth Beetaloo Basin fracking project. But they did so based on a report with optimistic projections on offsets and emissions. Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Redesigning agricultural landscapes to plant fire-retardant crops could help mitigate wildfires in an increasingly fire-prone world. Tim Curran, Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Md Azharul Alam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lincoln University, New Zealand Tanmayi Pagadala, Resource Management Planner, Lincoln University, New Zealand Thomas Maxwell, Senior Lecturer in Grazing Lands Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The UK's faltering carbon price could result in the loss of billions in treasury revenues and may expose British companies to large tax bills for exporting to the EU, warns a new report.

Having good chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C is gone, sending ‘dire’ message about the adequacy of climate action

The carbon budget remaining to limit the climate crisis to 1.5C of global heating is now “tiny”, according to an analysis, sending a “dire” message about the adequacy of climate action.

The carbon budget is the maximum amount of carbon emissions that can be released while restricting global temperature rise to the limits of the Paris agreement. The new figure is half the size of the budget estimated in 2020 and would be exhausted in six years at current levels of emissions.

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Fossil fuel emissions threaten a key climate threshold sooner than previously thought, a report says.

Nobody experiences the purple light of the blossoms as totally as the bee inside her petal trumpet

It is what jacarandas do to blue sky that makes us so helpless to resist them. They emerge in early summer, when we hope the skies will be bluest, and make them bluer still. “The jacaranda flames on the air like a ghost,” the Australian poet Douglas Stewart wrote, “Like a purer sky some door in the sky has revealed.”

Their blossoms fall, turning the ground to the sky, like still water reflecting clouds, and in the middle is us, bobbing happily up and down.

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Pumpkin growers in west and south-west fail to achieve predicted yields as climate crisis worsens drought and heat extremes

Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in north-east Colorado on a clear day. He could tell the snow was abundant last winter, and verified it up close when he floated through fresh powder alongside his wife and three sons at the popular Winter Park resort.

But one season of above-average snowfall wasn’t enough to refill the dwindling reservoir he relies on to irrigate his pumpkins. He received news this spring that his water delivery would be about half of what it was from the previous season, so he planted just half of his typical pumpkin crop. Then heavy rains in May and June brought plenty of water and turned fields into a muddy mess, preventing any additional planting many farmers might have wanted to do.

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Thérèse Coffey says data will be gathered on impact of emerging industry and UK will not support licences in meantime

Britain is backing a moratorium on commercial deep-sea mining, after criticism from scientists, MPs and environmentalists of its previous stance in support of the emerging industry.

On Monday, the UK government announced it would back a temporary suspension on supporting or sponsoring any exploitation licences to mine metals from the sea floor until enough scientific evidence was available to understand the impact on ecosystems.

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European carbon prices snapped a two-week losing streak on Monday morning, tracking early sharp rises in energy markets amid an unscheduled drop in North Sea gas supplies, forecasts for slightly cooler weather and outages at two French nuclear plants.

Kazakhstan on Monday became Japan’s 28th partner country under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), through which Tokyo hopes to generate 50-100 million carbon credits by the end of the decade.

Exclusive: Hundreds of ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ defences are in areas battered by Storm Babet, according to analysis by Unearthed

More than 4,000 of England’s vital flood defences are so damaged they are almost useless, including hundreds in areas battered by Storm Babet.

Nearly 800 critical assets – defined as those where there is a high risk to life and property – were in a “poor” or “very poor” condition in the 10 English counties worst affected by last week’s historic downpours.

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Finland’s emergency power reserve agency signed an agreement with energy company Fortum to use the firm's coal-fired plant in case of severe supply power disruption for two years from March 2024, Fortum said in a statement on Monday.

Reporting to Manager – Carbon Planning, Rio Tinto is looking for a highly organised, detail-oriented analyst to join the DO team as a Senior Advisor - Integrated Carbon Planning.

This role will be critical in developing a portfolio of carbon projects across Australia.

A tech firm will in November launch a demonstration project to digitalise the process of verifying and issuing units under the J-Credit scheme, as the government seeks to make the process quicker and easier for market participants.

The lending habits of Australia’s banks are contributing to the destruction of nature, particularly in high-impact sectors such as agriculture, property, energy, and resources, according to a report released Monday.

Conservation charity will roll out two-year pilot scheme across UK as it seeks to increase young people’s engagement with nature

Europe’s largest wildlife conservation charity is giving free access to all of its reserves for those who are 24 and under as it attempts a “youth revolution” to better engage young people with nature.

The two-year pilot programme will be rolled out across the UK from 6 November, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said in a document sent out to volunteers.

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Australia’s best way to reach the emissions reductions goal it set last year after Labor won its first election in several cycles would be via the one thing the government has sworn against – an economy-wide cap-and-trade scheme – according to a survey of economists.

Astronauts living and working on the Moon will need something to eat. The Growing Beyond Earth program supports international space crop research. Kim Johnson, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.