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A time bomb is ticking inside the Albanese government’s climate policy. When it explodes, Australia will fall short of its targets and leave investors shirtless.

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Canadian allyship key to energy security and supply chain concerns as the country ramps up its industrial response to climate change, a US official noted at a conference on Thursday.

The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) farming sector has immense potential for attracting green investment through the voluntary carbon market, the multi-stakeholder Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity initiative (VCMI) and partners asserted in a policy brief published on Thursday.

Queensland grid hits a new solar peak of 71.2 per cent, relegating coal to a minor role in the middle of the day.

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The island has already shrunk slightly as waves hit the "crumbly" formation.

For Australia to shift to a net zero economy, its big polluters need to cut emissions. A get-out clause buried in the policy makes it unlikely that they will, and the result will be devastating. Andrew Macintosh, Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University Don Butler, Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest. Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Alison Crowther, Senior Lecture in Archaeology, The University of Queensland Nathan Wright, Lecturer in archaeology, University of New England Robert Henry, Director, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland Rodney Carter, Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

In theory, bigger and more technologically advanced wind turbines should mean improved generation efficiency. But is this playing out in reality?

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Analysis finds concerns about environment key factor in having fewer or no children – but reasons differ around world

It was just over a decade ago that Emma Smart and her husband, Andy, first decided they would not have children. Back then, her friends and family did not understand.

“When you tell people you didn’t want to have children, that was a big social no-no,” she recalled. “And then when they asked you why, and you said for environmental reasons, that was completely unheard of.

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The US chat show host's support of the pūteketeke is creating an international PR battle.

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Long-running tensions between the Kenyan government and the Indigenous people of the Mau Forest in the country may have spilled over into the carbon market, with reported claims by human rights lawyers that hundreds of members of the Ogiek community are being evicted from their ancestral lands so the government can profit from carbon credit projects.

Study shows that rising temperatures will boost lightning as the main source of fires in northern forests.

Rotifers could be accelerating risk by splitting particles into thousands of potentially more dangerous nanoplastics

A type of zooplankton found in marine and fresh water can ingest and break down microplastics, scientists have discovered. But rather than providing a solution to the threat plastics pose to aquatic life, the tiny creatures known as rotifers could be accelerating the risk by splitting the particles into thousands of smaller and potentially more dangerous nanoplastics.

Each rotifer, named from the Latin for “wheel-bearer” owing to the whirling wheel of cilia around their mouths, can create between 348,000 and 366,000 nanoplastics – particles smaller than one micrometre – each day.

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The famous tree dates back to 17th Century Ghana and was reportedly planted by a renowned priest.

Germany’s three-party coalition government agreed on an additional five-year package to extend relief for the nation's EU ETS-covered industry struggling with high electricity prices, it announced on Thursday.

A Brazilian coastal state is launching a listening mechanism to engage companies and civil society organisations in developing carbon offsetting projects and other climate solutions.

A number of Japanese project developers are looking to expand their presence in Indonesia's growing offset market, though limited data availability and policy uncertainties remain top challenges for newcomers, a conference heard Thursday.

A blockchain-based biodiversity credit partnership between three companies has secured a small project area in Costa Rica, they announced Thursday.

Carbon credits for carbon capture and storage across the Southeast Asian region will underpin the economic development of what a Japanese government body sees as a key decarbonisation tool.