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A total of 10 projects are moving to the next stage of development in Australia's first offshore wind zone after another batch were granted feasibility licences.

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Widespread exemptions in carbon pricing have resulted in lower-than-expected financial burdens on households, though higher-income earners tend to benefit more due to their consumption patterns, according to new research published by the IMF.

Cutting electricity bills would persuade more people to install heat pumps, the government is told.

The near complete skeleton of a stegosaurus - named Apex - is 11ft (3.4m) tall and 27ft long, Sotheby's says.

A voluntary carbon market platform has called on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) to urgently provide clear guidance on the use of carbon credits for mitigating Scope 3 emissions, amid expectations that direction from the standard-setting organisation may not come until late 2025.

Those pushing the nuclear option are making some questionable claims about the capacity of renewable energy

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Advocacy for the Coalition’s hopes to build nuclear power plants is increasingly coming with large side-orders of misinformation, not just on the speed or costs of nuclear but on renewables.

Dr Adi Paterson, the chair of the Nuclear for Australia advocacy group, has taken to attacking the credentials of CSIRO experts while going hyperbolic with his rhetoric.

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The bidding activities of some of Australia's biggest utilities was so blatant, even the regulator took notice. Can they really be trusted on consumer energy resources? There's a problem here.

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More than one-third of a voluntary improved forest management (IFM) project or 6,000 acres (2,400 hectares) in California is burning as a result of wildfires, a nonprofit research group said Wednesday, calling for compensation from registry ACR’s buffer pool.

A clean fuels trade group said Wednesday that it has sent the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a notice of the organisation's intent to sue over the agency's failure to issue timely 2026 volumes under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).

A US-registered public benefit corporation has initiated an ocean-based CO2 removal (CDR) project off the coast of North Carolina by dumping 8,200 tonnes of olivine sand into the sea, targeting an abatement cost under $100/tonne by 2030.

UK businesses have been urged to come together to launch a collective fund to address the current shortfall in available carbon projects in the country by aggregating the purchasing power of different companies looking to offset their residual emissions.

The world’s 22 largest meat and dairy corporations are masters of distraction and denial when it comes to tackling their climate footprint, with a heavy reliance on offsets to meet net zero plans and efforts to block emissions regulation, alongside downplaying methane’s true climate impact, according to a new report.

The Canadian environment ministry is seeking feedback on a white paper released Wednesday that outlines preliminary considerations for nature-based federal offset projects on state-owned or public land.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) published a notice of intent Monday to support R&D projects addressing undocumented orphaned wells (UOW), as well as options for remediation of these major sources of methane.

A tax measure set to appear on a California city’s ballot this November could require Chevron to pay additional fees for oil refined within the region.

A Florida-headquartered algae-based carbon removals (CDR) project developer on Wednesday announced the completion of a Series B2 funding round valued in the tens of millions of dollars.

A global hotel chain announced a new programme on Wednesday to encourage wider adoption of carbon reduction practices across its network of properties.

The tangle of greenery along railway lines, flowers growing on vacant lots, or unmown grassy patches under power lines, it turns out people in cities engage with nature in all these spaces. Hugh Stanford, Researcher Associate, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Holly Kirk, Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Snakebites, the ‘deadliest of neglected tropical diseases’ often impact rural communities the most, but a new study offers hope

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A commonly used blood thinner can be used as an antidote to cobra venom, an international study has found, research that a Queensland expert has called “really exciting”.

In the study, published in the Journal of Science Translational Medicine on Thursday, Prof Nicholas Casewell described snakebites as the “deadliest of neglected tropical diseases, with its burden landing overwhelmingly on rural communities in low and middle income countries”.

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Fourteen attorneys general petition federal emergency officials as millions in US under excessive heat advisories

Fourteen state attorneys general are urging the federal government to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke major disasters. The petition comes as millions of people in the south and north-east face excessive heat advisories, and large swaths of the western US and Canada battle ongoing wildfires.

“The likelihood of high-severity extreme heat and wildfire smoke events is increasing due in part to climate change,” wrote the Arizona attorney general, Kris Mayes, in a letter submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday. “We urge Fema to update its regulations to prepare for this hotter, smokier future.”

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