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At least 62 people are known to have died when the Fuego volcano erupted on Sunday.

A pair of New York power plants failed to surrender enough allowances to cover their emissions during RGGI’s 2015-17 compliance period, the market's administrator said on Monday, confirming compliance data released earlier this year.

Ministers reach initial agreement with Japanese firm Hitachi over new Wylfa plant

The UK will take a £5bn-plus stake in a new nuclear power station in Wales in a striking reversal of decades-long government policy ruling out direct investment in nuclear projects.

Ministers said they had reached an initial agreement with the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi to back the Wylfa plant but emphasised that no final decision had yet been made and negotiations were just beginning.

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The wilderness of Patagonia – shared by Argentina and Chile – has frequently been threatened by logging and oil industries. But in January, Chile signed a historic act of conservation, creating five protected national parks covering 4m hectares

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EU carbon prices jumped back above €16 on Monday as soaring energy prices and a stronger auction lent bullish support in defiance of warnings from observers about a pull-back in EUAs.

Technology and energy efficiency could see a rapid fall in demand for fossil fuels even without new climate policies.

Deadly torrents of hot gas and volcanic debris engulf villages on the slopes of Fuego volcano.

The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) deals with economic and environmental issues, operating under the premise that promoting economic prosperity and co-operation on environmental problems can contribute to international security and stability.

An absence of US federal climate action under President Trump has prompted some states to take matters into their own hands, but after almost a dozen failed attempts so far this year, retrospective lawmakers are regrouping and considering more pragmatic approaches to get their carbon pricing bills over the finish line.

Advances in clean energy expected to cause a sudden drop in demand for fossil fuels, leaving companies with trillions in stranded assets

Plunging prices for renewable energy and rapidly increasing investment in low-carbon technologies could leave fossil fuel companies with trillions in stranded assets and spark a global financial crisis, a new study has found.

A sudden drop in demand for fossil fuels before 2035 is likely, according to the study, given the current global investments and economic advantages in a low-carbon transition.

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As the world moves towards a low-carbon economy, fossil fuel investments worth trillions of dollars, from oil wells to cars, will lose their value

Read more: ‘Carbon bubble’ could spark global financial crisis, study warns

Investments amounting to trillions of dollars in fossil fuels – coal mines, oil wells, power stations, conventional vehicles – will lose their value when the world moves decisively to a low-carbon economy. Fossil fuel reserves and production facilities will become stranded assets, having absorbed capital but unable to be used to make a profit. This carbon bubble has been estimated at between $1tn and $4tn (£3tn), a large chunk of the global economy’s balance sheet.

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The powerful few who benefit from the fossil fuel status quo are exerting their influence

Over the past two weeks, media attacks on solar panels and electric vehicles have been followed by Trump administration policies aimed at boosting their fossil fueled rivals.

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**This article is available to non-subscribers** - The future of Ontario’s carbon market has effectively become a two-horse race after the leader of the ruling Liberal party conceded defeat over the weekend.

How were the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park created, and what have we learned about them since?

South Korean carbon allowances weakened slightly on Monday as the government failed to release outright results from Friday’s auction, leaving traders uncertain how to respond.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has cancelled two contracts for delivery of a total 1.67 million carbon credits to its Emissions Reduction Fund.

The delay of China’s national emissions trading scheme is threatening to choke the nation’s fledgling carbon market industry as a majority of companies have put a freeze on new hires and some staffers have been forced to take a pay cut to keep their jobs, according to a new survey.

The announcement comes ahead of legislation banning the use of lightweight plastic bags in Western Australia and Queensland.

Despite the PM’s declaration, it is unclear how current climate policy will ensure Australia reaches its Paris commitment

Malcolm Turnbull, on a tour of drought-stricken areas in New South Wales and Queensland, has declared there is “no doubt that our climate is getting warmer”.

Flanked by Nationals on Monday in Trangie, Turnbull acknowledged climate change remained a live political debate but he said: “I don’t know many people in rural New South Wales that I talk to that don’t think the climate is getting drier and rainfall is becoming more volatile.”

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4 June 1918 Most of these foliage-devourers are the larvae of geometer moths of various kinds, sometimes called loopers

Caterpillars are doing their best to eat up the woods. On some of the sycamores, elms, and other trees the leaves are already reduced to lacework; on others, oaks in particular, many of the leaves have vanished. Most of these foliage-devourers are the larvae of geometer moths of various kinds; they are sometimes called loopers, on account of their habit of humping up their backs and straightening themselves out for the next reach, as they walk, or they are known as stick caterpillars when, at rest, they apparently pretend to be lifeless twigs. Others are smaller moths, leaf-rollers and miners, and others, again, particularly abundant on the hawthorns but by no means confining their attention to this plant, are the showy little hairy “palmer worms,” the caterpillars of the gold-tailed moth, whose irritating hairs give tender skins a rash.

Related: Health warning as toxic hairy caterpillars take over woodlands

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