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Studies in Yellowstone National Park show plant matter (mostly grass) is found in up to 74% of wolf scats, suggesting the behaviour may be inherited from the beginning of doggy time. Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Joshua Zoanetti, PhD candidate in Veterinary Bioscience, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Verified emissions in the UK ETS rose by 2.5% in 2022, the government announced late Thursday, with the increase in output driven by a post-pandemic rebound in aviation.

Pressure is mounting on the UAE ahead of the UNFCCC's intersessional climate change conference in Bonn next week, with criticism building among stakeholders over the Gulf state's hosting of the year-end COP28 UN climate summit due to the lack of a clear agenda, split priorities among negotiating parties, and the potential influence of the fossil fuel industry. 

The body responsible for helping to shape which mitigation activities can be credited under the Paris Agreement on Thursday signalled it will drop the controversial tonne-year accounting method from its recommendations.

Tensions within the European Parliament have been rising for weeks, with fractious negotiations over the bloc's proposed nature restoration law reaching breaking point in recent days.

More than half of 1,986 large global corporations are yet to pledge a carbon emission reduction target, according to the latest findings of researchers tracking company-level activity that reveal a major gap shortfall in climate action and potential carbon credit demand. 

Protected forests worldwide store an additional 9.65 billion tonnes of carbon in their aboveground biomass compared to similar unprotected areas, according to new research.

The European Commission is likely to publish its first set of implementation and delegated acts in the coming weeks related to the recently-passed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), with experts weighing whether details are likely on the thorny issue of carbon price equivalency.

The government of Bangladesh has proposed a carbon tax in its 2023-24 budget, aimed at reducing carbon emissions, easing city traffic congestion, and promoting public transportation use.

Switzerland has issued a plea to project developers to reach out to the country to pitch ideas under Article 6.2, the mechanism for bilateral carbon trade between countries to help meet Paris Agreement targets, amid a paucity of available opportunities in the market.

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Failure to stop the spread of an outbreak of invasive fire ants in south-east Queensland could cost the Australian economy more than $1bn a year, including damage to high-value crops, infrastructure and homes.

A previously unreleased cost-benefit analysis, commissioned by a steering committee managing the outbreak of red fire ants and obtained by Guardian Australia, says that eradication of the species provides “much higher returns” than suppression measures that simply limit its spread.

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IEA says Solar PV and wind set to lead largest increase ever in new renewable capacity this year, but Australia risks being left behind.

The post Global wind and solar additions to shatter records, but Australia being left behind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal insurgents”, a former senior federal police chief has warned.

Alexandre Saraiva, who worked in the Amazon from 2011 to 2021, said he feared the growing footprint of drug-trafficking mafias in the region could spawn a situation similar to the decades-long drug conflict in Rio de Janeiro, where the police’s battle with drug gangs and paramilitaries has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

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Photos and videos on phone found near site of men’s killing show some of their last movements in Brazilian Amazon

Some of the last images of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have been found after Indigenous activists recovered a mobile phone Pereira was carrying when the two men were killed in the Brazilian Amazon last year.

The phone was found last October when activists from Univaja, the Indigenous association where Pereira worked, returned to a stretch of flooded forest along the Itaquaí River where the men’s bodies were taken after they were shot dead on their boat on the morning of 5 June 2022.

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Dom’s tragic death presents an opportunity to share what the Amazon meant to him – and to ensure its protection

It’s been a year since my life changed dramatically with a phone call from a journalist friend telling me Dom had gone missing in the Javari valley. I could tell from the worry in his voice that it was unlikely Dom was still alive.

Dom and I both knew his research into criminal acts against the rainforest and its defenders might one day put him at risk. But we never believed it would actually happen. Dom followed strict safety protocols and was very careful and focused on the details of his trips, organising the itineraries and sending me all the information, as well as contacts.

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One year ago, Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist and longtime Guardian contributor, were killed on the frontline of the battle to protect the planet.

They were ambushed on the Amazon’s Itaquaí River while returning from a reporting trip to the remote Javari valley region. The attack prompted international outcry, and cast a spotlight on the growing threat to the Amazon posed by extractive industries, both legal and illegal, such as logging, poaching, mining and cattle ranching.

Today, we launch the Bruno and Dom project, a year-long collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories that involves more than 50 journalists from 16 media organisations in 10 countries around the world.

The goal is to honour and pursue their work, to foreground the importance of the Amazon and its people, and to suggest possible ways to save the Amazon. Here, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, looks at their lives and legacies

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Scientists monitored the Royal Entomological Society’s garden and listed its most bug-friendly plants

A bug-friendly garden at Chelsea flower show has inspired additions to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) pollinator-friendly plant list.

The garden, displayed at the show in London last week, was designed by the horticulturist Tom Massey in collaboration with the Royal Entomological Society (RES). It used various techniques to attract insects, including gravel for the bugs to burrow in rather than paving stones, piled-up logs, and a large range of pollinator-friendly plants, including 106 different species.

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European carbon prices fluctuated on Thursday morning amid a tug-of-war between short-positioned traders seeking to extend the recent decline, and others seeking to continue Wednesday's short-squeeze rally that had been triggered by data showing investment funds held their largest ever net short position.

A bill passed the state legislature that will require state-funded institutions to provide halal and kosher meals on request

As a student at Sullivan high school in Chicago, Ridwan Rashid frequently skipped lunch and was distracted by hunger, even though his school offered free meals to all students. Rashid is Muslim, as are a growing number of students at Sullivan. But until recently, none of the meals served at the Sullivan cafeteria were halal, which meant they were off limits for most of the school’s Muslim students.

“We go to school and it’s like, OK, some of the kids can eat and none of the Muslim kids can eat,” Rashid said. “It’s not fair.”

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Across the UK, fossil fuel companies’ broken promises have left scarred and polluted landscapes, and no one held accountable

When you’re in a hole, keep digging. This is the strategy of opencast miners across the world: our past debts and future liabilities can one day be discharged if only we’re allowed to dig a little deeper and extract a little more. And public authorities keep falling for it.

The UK’s biggest opencast coalmine, Ffos-y-Fran in south Wales, was granted permission in 2005 on the grounds that it would rehabilitate a hill, on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, which had been made dangerous by the shafts and spoil heaps left by deep mining. It wasn’t called a coalmine, but a “land reclamation scheme”. If the reclaimers happened to stumble across 11m tonnes of coal while improving the land by digging a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) pit, 200 metres deep, who could blame them for taking it?

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