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The fossil record suggests Australia may be much wetter, and look far different, in centuries and millenia to come. Tim Flannery, Honorary fellow, The University of Melbourne Josephine Brown, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Kale Sniderman, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI), in collaboration with the Yucatan government and global advisory firm Climate Focus, has announced a new partnership to establish best practice guidelines for voluntary carbon market (VCM) projects in the Mexican state.

The African Union Development Agency is looking for a consultancy service to develop an optimum standard for voluntary carbon offsets in Africa, to be labelled the ‘African Gold Standard’. 

Durable carbon removals (CDR) saw their sales fall for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q1, according to a report.

Regional airports in the UK are taking steps to develop the infrastructure behind hydrogen-powered flight, as they seek to support the decarbonisation pathway best suited to their short-haul customer base, participants heard on a webinar on Tuesday.

The EU ETS-funded European Hydrogen bank has awarded nearly €720 million to seven renewable hydrogen projects, following its first competitive bidding process, the European Commission announced on Tuesday.

The European Commission, together with its 27 member states' consumer authorities, has initiated action against 20 airlines to look at potential greenwashing practices, including the use of voluntary carbon credits, the executive announced on Tuesday.

Scientists make a self-destructing plastic using plastic-eating bacteria in a sci-fi like development.

G7 ministers confirmed their commitment to phase out unabated coal power generation by 2035, in a joint statement on Tuesday setting out how they intend to support and lead the global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and sale up clean energy. 

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Beneath the turquoise waters off Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral that, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today that coral outcrop, or bommie, shines snow white.

Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University, estimates this living boulder is at least 300 years old.

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Clarence Yoder was reportedly injured by animal in return, before police arrested him for disorderly conduct and other charges

A man who allegedly harassed bison at Yellowstone national park by kicking one of the animals was injured in return and arrested in the first such encounter at the famed site this year.

Officials said on Monday that police received a report about a man kicking a bison in the leg and being injured by one of the animals about seven miles from the park’s entrance, near Seven Mile Bridge, on 21 April.

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The latest round of negotiations on the UN plastic treaty wrapped up on Monday with shy steps forward on the draft text, due to be finalised by the end of the year, though observers levelled criticism over the lack of progress on production cuts and funding mechanisms.

A total of 10 carbon offsetting projects have now cleared the preliminary assessment of a Bangkok-based voluntary carbon registry, and are poised to collectively generate more than 4 million carbon credits annually.

The UK’s second-largest operator of waste-to-energy facilities is eying opportunities as a removals provider as it looks to roll out carbon capture across its portfolio and it receives an increasing proportion of biogenic waste.

An investigation into Australia’s federal environmental offset scheme has found a ‘set and forget’ regulatory approach has led to areas earmarked for conservation being impacted or developed without consequence.

Agency announces rule on methylene chloride, colorless liquid used for stripping paint, cleaning metal and decaffeinating coffee

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Tuesday that it will ban most uses of methylene chloride, a colorless liquid used for stripping paint, cleaning metal, and even decaffeinating coffee. The chemical has been linked to dozens of deaths and advocates have long called for its ban.

The new rule will require stronger worker safety protections from the harmful carcinogen for the remaining “critical” uses. All consumer use will be prohibited within a year, while most commercial and industrial use will be phased out within the next two years.

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UK aviation has a number of potential routes for decarbonising — from jet fuels to operational changes — but stronger policy is needed to incentivise and accelerate the shift in an industry where growing demand will otherwise push emissions upwards, industry experts said during a webinar on Tuesday.

Family discovers ‘terrifying’ gigantic bee colony in wall of home with blood-like honey oozing down wall and $20,000 in damage

A toddler told her mom that “monsters” were in her closet. But in fact, there were more than 50,000 bees there.

A mother of three children under four years old was met with a “terrifying” surprise after she and her husband investigated why a handful of bees had flown into the attic of the couple’s North Carolina home.

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The federal government's first major capacity auction is 32 times oversubscribed by a massive pipeline of battery storage projects.

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Big day for Australia's offshore wind ambitions with six potential projects awarded feasibility licences and another six to follow. Altogether, a potential 25GW of new capacity.

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