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For millennia, we’ve selectively bred our crop species to make the plants stronger and better yielding. But we’ll need a different approach to help our food plants weather the changes to come. Rajeev Varshney, Professor, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University Vanika Garg, Senior Lecturer in Crop and Food Innovation, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Trump talked about ‘nuclear warming’ while Musk said the only reason to quit fossil fuels is that their supply is finite

Donald Trump and Elon Musk both made discursive, often fact-free assertions about global heating, including that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property” and that there was no urgent need to cut carbon emissions, during an event labeled “the dumbest climate conversation of all time” by one prominent activist.

Trump, the Republican US presidential nominee, and Musk, the world’s richest person, dwelled on the problem of the climate crisis during their much-hyped conversation on X, formerly known as Twitter and owned by Musk, on Monday, agreeing that the world has plenty of time to move away from fossil fuels, if at all.

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The World Bank has priced what it says is the first bond linking investors' financial return to carbon removals from reforestation in the Amazon.

Australia must move fast to create a green industry from its current vast iron ore exports so it can go beyond a simple ‘dig and ship’ model to value-add creations. In so doing, the country can decarbonise its own industry and take advantage of the growing appetite for clean commodities.

Britain’s energy regulator on Tuesday gave the green light to a £4.3 billion low-carbon electricity “superhighway” stretching over 500 kilometres, set to run from northeastern Scotland to northern England.

The CO2 capacity of the Arctic appears limited as global warming erodes key coastal permafrost, according to research published on Tuesday.

Exposure to bacteria in landfill sites and polluted rivers may explain prevalence among city-dwelling birds

Urban ducks and crows might offer us a connection to nature, but scientists have found wild birds that live near humans are more likely to harbour bacteria resistant to important antibiotics.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is largely caused by the overuse of drugs such as antibiotics among humans and livestock.

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Corolla Cross hybrid 2024 used 4.5 litres of fuel per 100km, 7% more than Toyota advertised, while Audi and Subaru models used less

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Australians are buying cars that consume more petrol than the fuel efficiencies marketed to them, repeated investigations have found, while many vehicles also emit more toxic fumes than manufacturers advertise.

The Australian Automobile Association (AAA) on Wednesday released the latest results from its “real-world” testing program, a four-year $14m government-funded scheme that compares the fuel consumption and emissions of vehicles in Australian driving conditions with the consumption each vehicle advertises.

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Current geopolitical factors and policy trends mean that there is a plausible risk that progress on tackling climate change could stall or go into reverse, a recent report has warned.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC) has announced the public consultation for two new voluntary carbon methodologies under its agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) crediting programme.

The European agricultural sector's greenhouse gas footprint is set to take centre stage in the next EU political cycle, rising from a largely neglected climate issue to a prominent source of tension between co-legislators.

Fresh issuances of voluntary nature-based carbon removal credits, such as reforestation, outstripped newly minted avoided deforestation credits in the first half of the year, according to analysis published Tuesday.

Egypt’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) saw the conclusion of its first futures contract, revealed at the market’s official launch ceremony on Tuesday, according to local media sources.

US carbon credits certifier Verra has on Monday published corrections and clarifications to several documents in its Plastic Waste Reduction programme.

The Sri Lankan government has launched a programme to conserve 30% of the country’s land and ocean by 2030 while aiming to attract $1.5 billion in green investments between 2025 and 2030, the president’s office announced Monday.

A potential synergy between the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement could help to effectively scale climate action, according to a report published this week.

European carbon prices were little changed by midday on Tuesday after spending most of the morning in negative territory, as regional energy markets recovered from Monday's volatile and hectic session, with participants generally seeing the price action as a pause in the recent upward trend.

Credits generated from reducing impacts on large migratory marine creatures could help unlock funds for implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) across the Global South and North, an academic paper has said.

Bad press over the past year and confusion around standards for carbon credits and offsets are hampering the development of a voluntary carbon market even as the City of London is trying to support growth and turn itself into a global trading hub. 

The government of Seoul is planning to introduce direct air capture (DAC) technology that can extract CO2 from the atmosphere in urban areas.