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A sustainable infrastructure company looking to service power hungry data companies has struck a partnership with a startup US nuclear power company to build a new reactor deep undergound.

Academics must be better involved in the development of methodologies for assessing the biodiversity footprint of companies and financial institutions, as current approaches largely lack scientific rigour, researchers have told Carbon Pulse.

Steve Reed says planning rules ‘have got in the way’ of farmers and apologises for ‘shock’ of inheritance tax change

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Labour’s proposal to loosen planning regulations for farmers will deluge rivers with chicken faeces, environmental campaigners have warned.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, promised farmers on Thursday they would be able to build larger chicken sheds, but experts have said this would create “megafarms” and contribute to river pollution.

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Bureau of Meteorology says showers and storms a regular feature of Australian summer, but warm and dry periods still to come

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Showers are expected to continue for Sydney and Brisbane throughout much of the coming week, but summer isn’t over yet, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

In fact, senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said showers and storm activity were a regular feature of the Australian summer, especially for northern Australia, as well as south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales.

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Everyone around me is commenting on the loveliness of the weather and I’m wiping the sweat off my upper lip and hoping for a nice southerly

I’m not made for heatwaves. If my DNA could talk, it would tell me about how it still dreams of the windswept Scottish island that was home to my ancestors and then ask why it’s so hot outside.

Many people talk about suffering low moods in winter but I’m the opposite. I adore winter but easily get sad in summer. Everyone around me is commenting on the loveliness of the weather and I’m wiping the sweat off my upper lip and squinting at the rain radar again in case I missed a hint of a cloudburst or nice southerly that’s on its way to save me. It can be isolating to be one of the seemingly few who fail to revel in a season that others thrive in.

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New rule hailed as major step toward reining in source of local toxic air pollution that hits low-income neighborhoods

The EPA plans to require the nation’s municipal waste incinerators to monitor for dangerous air emissions, a move environmental groups have hailed as a major step toward reining in a staggering source of localized toxic air pollution that most frequently hits low-income neighborhoods.

Municipal incinerators’ stacks often spew hazardous pollutants like dioxins, particulate matter, PFAS, carbon monoxide, acid gases, or nitrogen oxides. The substances are linked to cancer, developmental disorders and other serious diseases, but still are burned with limited or patchwork oversight.

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EU carbon prices jumped sharply as midday approached, erasing early losses of as much as 0.9% as the correlation between the market and prompt TTF natural gas broke down briefly amid technical carbon buying, after prices failed to conclusively breach a key support level.

China will need carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce emissions from its most polluting sectors and both subsidies and credit finance will be useful to roll out the technology, but incentives will also “exacerbate the carbon rebound effect”, researchers have warned, highlighting trade offs.

A Singapore-headquartered carbon developer has secured an additional investment for scaling high-quality carbon projects in the Global South, the developer announced Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has committed to ringfence $40 million towards conservation and restoration projects in Brazil through a philanthropic entity backed by the Gulf state, local media reported on Wednesday.

New research suggests carbon sequestration through biochar could be more long-term that previously thought, with analysed samples capable of storing carbon for some 100 million years.

Governments should align their measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks to streamline global carbon removal (CDR) efforts, according to a recent Japan-sponsored report.

China's forest carbon market could be 'overheating' following the relaunch of the national offset programme, given concerns over regulatory inconsistencies and forest ownership issues, researchers have warned.

Rystad Energy releases data days after Ukraine stopped flows of Russian gas through its pipelines

Europe bought a record amount of liquefied natural gas from Russia last year, data shows, despite EU efforts to ditch the fossil fuels funding Putin’s war chest.

Ships carrying 17.8m tonnes of ultra-cold Russian gas docked in European ports in 2024, up by more than 2m tonnes from the year before, according to analysts Rystad Energy.

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The wild cats were humanely trapped using cameras near baited traps and are in quarantine

Two lynx that were illegally released into the Scottish Highlands have been captured overnight and are said to be in good health.

Police had issued a warning to the public on Wednesday evening not to approach the wild cats, after several sightings in the Drumguish area, near Kingussie.

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Environment secretary Steve Reed urged to bring in ‘full and swift ban’ to protect health of people, wildlife and pets

Wildlife charities have called on the government to ban the sale and use of lead in ammunition used for outdoor shooting.

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), RSPB, Wildlife and Countryside Link, Chem Trust and Wild Justice have sent an open letter to the environment secretary, Steve Reed, asking for a 18-month transition period for a ban on lead in ammunition sales.

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A Singapore-headquartered climate fintech company has launched a blockchain-based platform for trading of carbon credits and international renewable energy certificates (I-RECS), it has announced.

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

A failure of justice, and draconian Tory law, put Gaie Delap in prison. A failure of government is keeping her there

Gaie Delap will turn 78 on Friday, in Eastwood Park prison, Gloucestershire. Sentenced to 20 months last August for climbing a gantry over the M25 for Just Stop Oil, she was released in November to serve the rest of her sentence on a home detention curfew. But the electronic tag that she was required to wear couldn’t go round her ankle because she has deep-vein thrombosis and it might have risked causing her a stroke. It couldn’t go round her wrist because they couldn’t find a tag small enough, which people keep saying is because she’s frail. Delap hates being called frail. Her wrist is a perfectly reasonable size, 14-and-a-half centimetres. It’s the wrist-tag design that’s wanting. The topsy-turvy world where a government contractor, Serco, can fail and fail again, while a citizen with a social purpose gets called back to prison five days before Christmas to atone for that failure, isn’t even the most absurd thing about this story.

Delap was engaged in direct action to raise awareness about the climate emergency, and the day citizens stop doing that is the day that progressive politics might as well give up and go home. Whatever pretzel twists Labour ministers have to perform to sound as if they’re on the side of the decent, honest commuter, while simultaneously signalling that they understand the scale of the climate crisis, they must surely remember this: the trade union movement, the peace movement, the suffragette movement, the civil rights movement, the climate justice movement; every known movement of change has relied on non-violent action to disrupt the status quo.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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A planned large-scale natural gas field backed by the government could be an unworthy investment for South Korea, considering the potential carbon cost and declining gas demand, an environmental group has argued.