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Poland should use its presidency of the Council of the EU to advocate reforms promoting international cooperation in the bloc’s climate policy, including reopening its cap-and-trade carbon market to international credits, an expert at a Polish government-affiliated organisation said on Tuesday.

CPS says there is not enough evidence to proceed against Greenpeace activists who blockaded firm’s London office

Criminal charges have been dropped against dozens of people who protested outside the offices of Unilever about plastic pollution.

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to proceed against 34 individuals days before their trial was due to start.

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A government-backed Scottish coastal initiative is trying to develop an innovative business model to support large-scale nature restoration, potentially involving biodiversity and carbon credits.

The Germany-headquartered EEX exchange posted a 10% rise in traded EU carbon volumes last year, according to data published Wednesday.

At least 20 consumer brands are launching $15/tonne internal carbon fees in 2025 under a new certification standard that could see them buy carbon credits to hit their targets.

European Union countries are broadly “open” to support the linkage of the EU and UK Emissions Trading Schemes in order to achieve efficiencies in cutting greenhouse gases, provided a number of conditions are met and that Britain contributes to the costs, according to EU filings seen by Carbon Pulse.

There are significant health benefits to trying new things, whatever the activity – and there is always more to learn

There is a paradox to being 20 metres under the ocean. It is a place of calm and wonderment. I am immersed in a foreign world, with a new watery sky above me. There is a sense of serenity, blissful peace as countless colourful fish glide past.

Only the tranquillity is deceiving. As a novice diver, my mind ticks over in hyperdrive. All that stands between me and an agonising fate is the tank of oxygen on my back (and, hopefully, the dive guide’s spare air).

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Feeding birds from flat surfaces such as tables could be contributing to spread of finch trichomonosis, says charity

The RSPB has withdrawn flat bird feeders from sale on its website amid warnings they could be spreading deadly diseases to finches.

The charity has said feeding birds from flat surfaces such as tables could be contributing to the spread of illnesses such as finch trichomonosis, which has been blamed for the plummeting greenfinch population.

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Exclusive: England and Wales proposals expected to follow Scottish consultation amid fears British farmers are being undercut

Ministers may lift a ban introduced during the BSE crisis on the use of animal remains in feed for farmed chickens and pigs over fears that foreign producers are undercutting British farmers.

A consultation on permitting the use of processed animal protein (PAP) from poultry, pigs and insects has opened in Scotland, and it is understood that proposals will be made for England and Wales in the coming months.

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Experts say marsupial mole DNA shows they are closely linked to bandicoots and bilbies and their ancestors likely evolved in a rainforest environment

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New research into one of Australia’s most specialised and bizarre animals has revealed the marsupial mole’s biology is as unusual as its appearance.

University of Melbourne researchers, who led the study, extracted DNA from a museum specimen then sequenced and analysed its genome to uncover the evolutionary secrets of the golden-haired species, about which “almost nothing is known”.

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A group of international researchers, led by the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, has developed a framework for improving biodiversity monitoring while reducing associated costs.

The Indonesian government has announced plans to convert 20 million hectares of forest into agricultural land, triggering loud concerns from environmental organisations.

EU carbon allowances followed natural gas prices lower on Wednesday, dropping to trade near technical support levels despite weekly position data showing that investment funds ramped up their buying last week and now hold the largest net long position in 22 months.

Indonesia is looking to protect 5 million hectares of forest land by forming a task force that will drive recognition of customary land holders, the Customary Territory Registration Agency (BRWA) said this week.

The UK’s biodiversity net gain (BNG) legislation’s burdensome requirements for small sites will cause the scheme to fail without action, said a survey by a professional body of ecologists published Wednesday.

These tiny organisms matter. They have been used to map dark matter and improve transport networks, and they’re living all around us

A few years ago, I started looking at the underside of logs and it changed my life. I found a secret carnival of the most bodacious and interesting organisms I had ever seen. Bubbles of candy-pink gloss on stilts (Comatricha nigra), bunches of rainbow iridescence on toffee strings (Badhamia utricularis), bouffants of raspberry parfait (Arcyria denudata) – and those are just a few that have appeared on bits of wood in our urban garden.

Slime moulds, or myxomycetes, spend part of their life cycle as what are known as fruiting bodies – which look a bit like tiny mushrooms, hence why they were once classified as fungi (they’re actually in the kingdom Protista). Often you will find them, at this stage, in a colony – or, well, I’d suggest galaxy, sweetshop or funfair would be more accurate for a collective noun.

Lucy Jones is the author of Matrescence, Losing Eden and The Nature Seed

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Bangladesh has included a list of project activities under Article 6.4 mechanism of the Paris Agreement in its latest submission to the UNFCCC, even as it prepares a positive and negative list for Article 6 projects that will be incorporated in its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

A recent study has highlighted the careful balance Australian policymakers must strike between growing the country’s renewable energy capacity and electrifying much of its natural gas demand.

Diminutive bird breeds in Alaska and Arctic Canada and sightings in Britain are rare enough to attract a crowd

If you’d asked me which rare bird I might see in Somerset in early January, the least sandpiper would have been very low on my list. Yet on a fine, bright, chilly morning here it was: running along the edge of the water like a clockwork toy, probing the mud for food with its stubby bill.

This species is well-named. It is the world’s smallest wading bird, just 13-15cm long and weighing less than 30 grams – about the same as a house sparrow. Even its scientific name, minutilla, is Latin for “very small”. Standing next to a dunlin and a teal, it made them look enormous.

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Steve Reed to announce focus on making farming ‘more profitable and sustainable’ at Oxford Farming Conference

The government is aiming to reset its relationship with farmers with what it describes as a “new deal” for the industry.

Farmers have protested in their tens of thousands after controversial changes were made to agricultural inheritance tax and the EU-derived subsidy scheme.

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