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Birds in their 40s wintering on mudflats of the Wash received leg rings in early 1980s

If your ears are assaulted by the shrill piping calls of an excitable bird on the east coast of England, fear not: it’s probably an oystercatcher experiencing a midlife crisis.

Two of the handsome black and white birds with bright red-orange bills have been found to be the oldest known oystercatchers ever recorded in Britain, clocking up at least 41 and 43 years on the mudflats of the Wash.

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A CO2 removals portfolio manager has initiated rating coverage on, and awarded a top grade to, a Canadian firm described as the world’s first “technology-agnostic” developer of direct air capture (DAC) projects.

Campaigners condemn decision amid growing evidence of harm to health and climate from heating appliances

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Wood-burning stoves will be allowed to heat new-build homes in England despite growing evidence showing their significant contribution to air pollution and carbon emissions.

The government is writing its future homes standard, a set of rules for developers, aimed at decarbonising England’s housing stock. Heating the UK’s 28m homes accounts for about 18% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The global artificial intelligence (AI) boom could lift GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points a year through 2030 but risks adding 1.7 billion tonnes of CO2 over the same period unless energy systems adapt, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found in a report.

The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.

The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.

Australia’s Agriprove Solutions has launched a new product for farmers hoping to access ag-tech and services using existing or future carbon credits, cash, or both, it said Thursday.

The Nigerian government has finalised its carbon market regulations through which it expects to unlock up to $2.5 billion in revenue from carbon credits and other investments by the end of the decade, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced.

Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.

Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.

Discovery could provide valuable clues as to how the climate crisis might affect Antarctica, says study

Giant, flat-topped icebergs the size of the city of Cambridge drifted off the coast of Britain during the last ice age, according to a study that has uncovered evidence of their existence for the first time.

A series of distinctive, comb-like grooves found preserved in sediment near Aberdeen in Scotland were left behind by the underside of huge “tabular” icebergs that dragged across the North Sea floor between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago, the researchers said.

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Tighter regulation of biomass use will be needed in Europe if the EU starts incentivising bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BioCCS) on a large scale to meet its net zero emissions target, according to a Danish think tank.

China's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) will cover all GHG emissions from all economic sectors, and its actions to address climate change will not slow down despite changes in the global political environment, President Xi Jinping has said.

Japan’s work decarbonising its industry and driving the uptake of renewable energy and cleaner manufacturing is blighted by its lack of support for those already at the cleaner end of the bell curve, a think tank said this week.

A San Francisco-based carbon management firm on Thursday announced it has launched a new digital platform aimed at streamlining the purchase, evaluation, and management of carbon credits for corporate buyers.

Prospective US tariffs and Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) are increasing pressure on Southeast Asian nations to fast-track carbon pricing policies, speakers said during a webinar Thursday.

The German government coalition deal, which includes provisions to allow the buying of international credits under Article 6 to meet the country's climate goals, could be a major step towards scaling demand in the Paris Agreement era, a carbon markets veteran told Carbon Pulse.

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us

Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold.

The rules defending wildlife and habitats from unscrupulous developers are weak enough already, which is partly why, as Labour reminded us in its manifesto, Britain is “one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world”. But this bill will make it much, much worse.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Ending Labor’s EV tax break would make it much harder to cut surging emissions in Australia’s transport sector. Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Polestar says Dutton’s move shows ‘a complete lack of understanding of the significant cost-of-living, climate and health benefits of EVs’

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Electric vehicles would cost more under a Coalition government, after Peter Dutton confirmed he would scrap a popular tax break for EV drivers in an apparent backflip that has caused confusion and anger among clean car advocates.

The initiative, which was introduced by the Albanese government in 2022, has meant if a person buys an EV priced under $91,387 through a novated lease program via their employer (when a lease is paid off through pre-taxed salary deductions) they do not have to pay fringe benefits tax (FBT) – even if the car is only for personal use.

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