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A Seychelles-based environmental non-profit is spearheading a project to build Africa's first on-land regenerative coral aquaculture facility, paving the way for innovating coral reef conservation and restoration in the region.

City trees are an incredible green resource but are under serious assault. Banksy’s stark image shows the damage being done

Amid the excitement around Banksy’s latest art piece – a tree mural unveiled on a wall in Islington, north London – very little is being said about the tree at the centre of the story, a brutally pollarded 50-year-old cherry, and what it communicates about the way our urban trees are “managed”.

I visited it on Monday, just 10 minutes’ cycle from my house, and stood startled by the large, leafless tree, its bark darkened by pollution. It splays upwards like an agonised hand, with green paint – literal green wash – splashed up the wall behind it by a woman holding a pressure washer. But gradually I felt horrified, dismayed as the media filmed stories and crowds of people smiled, cooed and held their phones aloft for the latest Instagrammable image. People talked about whether the work could be “stolen” and the effect it would have on house prices and rents.

Gio Iozzi is a London-based writer and tree campaigner who set up Haringey Tree Protectors

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Development of a new Australian environmental plantings methodology is likely to take priority over the Integrated Farming Land Management (IFLM) method, an expert told a conference Wednesday, all but confirming the development of the IFLM method will be pushed back.

Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’

Industrial vessels suspected of using a harmful fishing method known as bottom trawling spent more than 33,000 hours in British marine protected areas last year, a new analysis of satellite data shows.

Ten of these vessels, primarily from the EU, were responsible for a quarter of this activity in offshore protected areas, according to Oceana UK, a conservation group.

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Victoria’s plan to bring forward its net-zero target from 2050 to 2045 and have its grid operating on 95% renewable energy by 2035 passed the state parliament Tuesday.

China’s two largest EV battery makers are pledging to slash the cost of their batteries this year. Behind the pledge is a cost war – and new battery chemistries. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Waqas Uzair, Research associate, Edith Cowan University Yasir Arafat, Senior research associate, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group

The failure to tackle Europe’s “runaway” transport emissions could lead to the sector pumping out nearly half of the continent’s planet-heating pollution by 2030, a report has found.

Driven by polluting cars and pushed higher by the growing thirst for flights, transport emissions in Europe have grown 26% since 1990 – even as efforts to clean up other areas of the economy have led to an overall emissions fall.

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Renewables peak body says Victoria's accelerated planning decision does not change the process, and is not about steamrolling farmers.

The post Faster, not different: Victoria renewables fast-track is not a steamroller appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Monash Uni’s Yolande Strengers and Kari Dahlgren on one of the big challenges of the energy transition - trust. Plus, all the news of the week in this nuclear free podcast.

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Energy market reform feels like early Tarantino, there are so many lustrous projectiles in flight.

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Tripling of renewable energy capacity is “technically feasible and economically viable”, but new report says it depends on systemic change and removing trillions of fossil fuel subsidies.

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Whether wind farms affect house prices is a live issue for anti wind farm campaigners in Australia, but new research out of the US shows it's nothing to worry about.

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Climate extremes are now causing measurable losses in food production and displacing millions. But some scientists says the situation is worse than portrayed by WMO.

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The federal Coalition insists the lights will go out in transition to wind and solar. AEMO has now released a video explaining why they won't, following CSIRO's defence of science.

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As Donald Trump prepares for this year’s US presidential election, he continues to summarise his energy policies with one simple borrowed slogan: “Drill, baby, drill.”

The post ‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Ambulance officers treated the man, believed to have been bitten by an eastern brown snake, but he died later in Townsville hospital

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A man has died in hospital after being bitten multiple times by a snake in north Queensland.

Queensland ambulance service paramedics were called to a Deeragun property after 3pm on Tuesday. The man was in a critical condition and had sustained “multiple” snake bites at a separate address. He was taken to Townsville hospital but later died.

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An environmental commodities tech provider is building an interoperable digital platform for fungible carbon credits that can be traded and tracked across a global marketplace, it told a conference Tuesday.

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Footage supplied to Guardian Australia shows koalas clinging to falling blue gums as logging occurs on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The footage was taken across two days in November 2023 and January 2024. Logging has been stopped while an investigation takes place.

• Investigation into logging on Kangaroo Island under way after release of ‘horrific images’ of dead koalas

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The draft regulation for the national voluntary carbon market (VCM) in Mexico poses “nearly zero” risk to project developers in its current form due to deep structural issues, a conference heard from a legal expert Tuesday.

A US agency is looking to begin formal engagement with voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants this summer as part of its goal to enhance the quality and confidence of carbon removals, agency staff said Tuesday.