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An Amsterdam-based firm announced Tuesday it has raised €8 million to develop sodium-ion battery storage for solar power, a technology it said could help the energy sector cut up to 14 billion tonnes of CO2 annually by 2050 if widely adopted.

A gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the north of England will emit more greenhouse gas emissions than initially declared, and will be at odds with the UK’s net zero commitments, said a scientist, whose claim was due to be heard in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

How do you stop people worrying about the climate emergency? By sacking anyone whose job it is to keep an eye on it. Chalk up another win for Project 2025

Some politicians go whichever way the wind blows. Not, however, the US’s esteemed leader, Donald Trump. He is such a force of nature that he can dictate the direction of the wind. During his first term, he suggested “nuking hurricanes” to stop them from hitting the country. A few weeks after that, Trump seemed to think he could alter the course of Hurricane Dorian with a black marker, scribbling over an official map to change its anticipated trajectory in an incident now known as Sharpiegate. Weirdly, Dorian did not end up following Trump’s orders. Hurricanes can be uncooperative like that.

Six weeks into Trump’s second term, the president hasn’t bombed any hurricanes, but he has nuked the US’s weather-forecasting capabilities. Last week, hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency, were abruptly fired.

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Companies are increasingly allowing consumers to purchase voluntary carbon offsets, reducing corporate responsibility for emissions while maintaining profitability, according to new research.

A British forest carbon fund has received a grant of over £87,000 from the Scottish government's Peatland ACTION fund, aiming to prevent peatland from drying out and generating CO2 emissions, with the project set to generate credits under the country's Peatland Carbon Code.

Researchers at University of Exeter warn many of the hunted species are important crop pollinators

Invasive Asian hornets are eating hundreds of different species of insects in Europe, including many which are important pollinators, researchers have warned.

The findings, from tests of the guts of more than 1,500 larvae, raise new concerns over the “extra threat” the hornet poses to native insects already under pressure from farming, changes in land use and chemical pollution.

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Smaller developers have struggled more with biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements than larger companies, an executive representing the government’s nature adviser has said.

A London-headquartered provider of consulting and capital markets technology services on Tuesday launched a new environmental markets infrastructure platform designed to support governments in issuing, trading, and managing sovereign environmental assets.

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.

Charges under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme allocated to the energy from waste (EfW) sector should fully reflect the composition of the waste stream in question, in order to drive the intended carbon reduction in EfW feedstock and increase recycling rates, according to an industry body.

European carbon plunged to a new year-to-date low on Tuesday morning amid a wider sell-off in most markets after the US went ahead with plans to impose import tariffs on selected countries and the prospects of a peace deal in Ukraine appeared to recede.

The UK's ETS Authority recommends allowing market participants to bank their emission allowances between the current first phase of the scheme and the second phase beginning in 2031, officials confirmed on a recent webinar. 

US giant Google has launched its first accelerator for startups using technology to protect, manage, and restore biodiversity, amid continuous growth of the global nature tech market.

Governments in East Asia are accelerating the construction work for their emissions trading schemes, though participants are eager to see more policy clarity, experts told a conference Tuesday.

Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled a carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) bill in its house of representatives, establishing a regulatory framework to generate revenue from the technology.

The iceberg appears to be stuck and may start breaking up near the island of South Georgia.

Southeast Asian market associations are striving to ensure regional carbon market developments can align and harmonise with each other in order to build scale and ease of access, as governments are rapidly constructing infrastructure to meet their own domestic requirements.

The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices – and the spread of the virus, data shared exclusively with the Guardian shows

Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests.

The cost of a dozen large eggs hit almost $5 in January – a record high in the US and more than two and a half times the average price three years ago before the avian flu outbreak. This signifies a 157% inflation rate for eggs – a previously go-to affordable protein source for many American families.

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Negotiations on the first-ever global treaty to tackle plastic pollution will resume in August in Switzerland after countries were unable to reach an agreement during talks in South Korea last December.

India will launch its voluntary carbon offset trading mechanism within six months as part of its Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), a senior government official told the Carbon Forward Asia conference in Singapore on Tuesday.