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Italian and Japanese joint venture snaps up a portfolio of wind, solar and battery assets put on the block by Australian super funds and investors.

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A new study of water quality in Australian rivers reveals surprising changes since the turn of the century: good for the Murray-Darling Basin but bad for the reef. Anna Lintern, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, specialising in water quality, Monash University Danlu Guo, Senior lecturer of Environmental Engineering, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The former vice-chair of the UN’s Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) has moved to a new role at financial services provider and commodities trader.

The new Belgian government intends to repeal a nuclear phaseout initiated over 20 years ago and build new reactors instead, with plans to also promote heat pumps and solar PV, while slowing the transition to electric vehicles in company car fleets.

A carbon project implementer seeking to partner with developers in Brazil will next week launch a call to identify large-scale afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) initiatives, estimating that this first round could identify around 200,000 hectares for activities.

A much-anticipated EU regulatory simplification package, set to be unveiled on Feb. 26, is raising alarm bells among sustainable finance advocates who worry it may open the door to deregulation.

The market for durable CO2 removals (CDR) may see supplier consolidation, bankruptcies, prematurely price-based competition, and even oversupply as few new purchasers enter the market and investments decline, according to a report published Wednesday.

Carbon capture and storage should play a major role in the EU Clean Industrial Deal, according to a letter sent by experts to the European Commission on Wednesday.

The agricultural industry has destroyed biodiversity over an area of 55 million square kilometres across its supply chain, a report by CDC Biodiversite has estimated.

The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) has lost one of its key backers after a three-year incubation grant provided by Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion philanthropic fund expired at the end of last year, the standard setter confirmed to Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

A group of global NGOs has included funding biodiversity credits among the steps that the EU Commission should take to mobilise financing under the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform.

Electrification in the chemical sector can be doubled or even quadrupled depending on the pathways, and up to 90% of current processes could be connected to clean power sources to decarbonise, according to the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), a trade association.

Biomass-based carbon removal (CDR) methods achieve higher CO2 retention than direct air capture (DAC) and enhanced rock weathering (ERW), according to new scientific research assessing the efficiency and energy use of 12 engineered carbon removal technologies.

EU carbon prices fell for a third session as selling pressure continued to cap the recent rally, even as energy markets were flat to slightly firmer, leading some sources to point to equities as providing influence on EUAs on Wednesday.

Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeys

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Scientists have produced kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals.

Australian researchers at the University of Queensland made the eastern grey kangaroo embryos using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a technique widely used in human IVF, in which a sperm is injected into a mature egg.

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The Indian government is moving forward in establishing its carbon market, with the trading of first carbon credit certificates in the compliance market expected to happen in Oct. 2026, the market regulator told a conference Wednesday.

An England-based nature tech company released on Tuesday a framework seeking to steer private organisations to invest in nature, including a hierarchy of metrics to measure the recovery of ecosystems.

Ian Wood wins Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award with photo taken in St Leonards-on-Sea

A badger captured glancing up at a graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award for wildlife photographer of the year.

The image was taken by a British photographer, Ian Wood, on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

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Another major European fossil fuel producer has cut its clean energy targets, following BP and Shell watering down their climate goals last year.

A French startup has partnered with a carbon storage firm to launch France’s first bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project.