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US power plants cut CO2 emissions by 7% in 2023 amid coal-to-gas generation shift
Speculators continue profit-taking run across North American carbon markets, emitters build RGGI length
Maryland announces $90 mln to advance transportation and buildings electrification
Canada waters down its draft Clean Electricity Regulations following criticism
Pregnant women in Indiana show fourfold increase in toxic weedkiller in urine – study
Seventy perc ent of pregnant women in state had herbicide dicamba in their urine, up from 28% in an earlier study
Pregnant women in a key US farm state are showing increasing amounts of a toxic weedkiller in their urine, a rise that comes alongside climbing use of the chemicals in agriculture, according to a study published on Friday.
The study, led by the Indiana University school of medicine, showed that 70% of pregnant women tested in Indiana between 2020 and 2022 had a herbicide called dicamba in their urine, up from 28% from a similar analysis for the period 2010-12. The earlier study included women in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.
Continue reading...IUCN launches C$30mln marine biodiversity and gender project in Madagascar
Elephant forest activity correlates with high carbon storage, though causal relationship unclear -study
Web3 company plots recovery in tokenised carbon credits amid ICVCM integrity drive
Electrification will outweigh hydrogen in EU net zero energy use -report
Pollination plans blended regenerative agriculture fund worth billions
First lockdown, then the voice, now renewables? Anti-government groups find new energy in environment battles
Protests against Australia’s transition to renewable power have attracted a wide coalition of interests, from mainstream parties to the wild shores of conspiracy
The protest signs at last week’s rally against renewables in Canberra spoke of hyperlocal concerns – but also cabals and plots of global proportion.
Some spoke of immediate worries linked to environmental policies: “Oberon betrayed by state forestry”; and “Say no to Twin Creek wind farm”.
Continue reading...Biochar carbon credit prices to fall despite growing demand, say analysts
EU approves billions in state aid to decarbonise ETS-covered German industrials
Global tree-planting initiatives drive massive biodiversity loss in African savannas, study finds
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Swedish Article 6 carbon project in Ghana broadens scope to raise performance
RWE posts 26% annual drop in EU ETS-covered fossil burn
FEATURE: Voluntary carbon insurers move in to de-risk the market
South Korea’s REDD+ promotion law to enter into force
Weather tracker: Flash flooding in Oman and record temperatures in Western Australia
Four people died after heavy rain in the Middle Eastern country, which is one of the driest in the world
Abnormally high rainfall hit Oman and the United Arab Emirates on Monday, with heavy downpours and thunderstorms rolling in from the north-east. The two countries are among the driest in the world, with large parts of both typically receiving less than 100mm of rainfall each year. However, on Monday 50-100mm of rainfall was widely reported across eastern UAE and northern Oman, with a highest total of 140mm in Dibba, a city in the far north of Oman that lies on its border with the UAE. Some thunderstorms were accompanied by hail, with a particularly heavy shower in Abu Dhabi leaving the streets blanketed in hailstones, some of which were almost the size of golf balls.
Flooding was widespread, with flash flooding proving particularly dangerous in Oman’s mountainous regions. More than 100 people had to be rescued, many from stranded vehicles, while four fatalities were confirmed. Three stages of the Tour of Oman cycling race were curtailed due to landslides on some climbs. The UAE was less badly affected, but some schools were closed, while an official visit to Dubai by Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, was scaled down.
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