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Stevenage-built BepiColombo makes final flyby of Mercury ahead of entering the plant's orbit in 2026.

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Finnish energy company Fortum announced Thursday that its near- and long-term emissions reduction targets, along with its net zero target for 2040, have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Denmark kicked off its fourth licencing round for exploration and use of offshore geological CO2 storage, it announced on Thursday. 

A Canada-based project developer announced Wednesday it has completed third-party validation of its first large-scale reforestation carbon credit project in Sierra Leone.

A sustainable infrastructure company looking to service power hungry data companies has struck a partnership with a startup US nuclear power company to build a new reactor deep undergound.

Academics must be better involved in the development of methodologies for assessing the biodiversity footprint of companies and financial institutions, as current approaches largely lack scientific rigour, researchers have told Carbon Pulse.

Steve Reed says planning rules ‘have got in the way’ of farmers and apologises for ‘shock’ of inheritance tax change

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Labour’s proposal to loosen planning regulations for farmers will deluge rivers with chicken faeces, environmental campaigners have warned.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, promised farmers on Thursday they would be able to build larger chicken sheds, but experts have said this would create “megafarms” and contribute to river pollution.

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Bureau of Meteorology says showers and storms a regular feature of Australian summer, but warm and dry periods still to come

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Showers are expected to continue for Sydney and Brisbane throughout much of the coming week, but summer isn’t over yet, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

In fact, senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said showers and storm activity were a regular feature of the Australian summer, especially for northern Australia, as well as south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales.

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Everyone around me is commenting on the loveliness of the weather and I’m wiping the sweat off my upper lip and hoping for a nice southerly

I’m not made for heatwaves. If my DNA could talk, it would tell me about how it still dreams of the windswept Scottish island that was home to my ancestors and then ask why it’s so hot outside.

Many people talk about suffering low moods in winter but I’m the opposite. I adore winter but easily get sad in summer. Everyone around me is commenting on the loveliness of the weather and I’m wiping the sweat off my upper lip and squinting at the rain radar again in case I missed a hint of a cloudburst or nice southerly that’s on its way to save me. It can be isolating to be one of the seemingly few who fail to revel in a season that others thrive in.

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New rule hailed as major step toward reining in source of local toxic air pollution that hits low-income neighborhoods

The EPA plans to require the nation’s municipal waste incinerators to monitor for dangerous air emissions, a move environmental groups have hailed as a major step toward reining in a staggering source of localized toxic air pollution that most frequently hits low-income neighborhoods.

Municipal incinerators’ stacks often spew hazardous pollutants like dioxins, particulate matter, PFAS, carbon monoxide, acid gases, or nitrogen oxides. The substances are linked to cancer, developmental disorders and other serious diseases, but still are burned with limited or patchwork oversight.

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EU carbon prices jumped sharply as midday approached, erasing early losses of as much as 0.9% as the correlation between the market and prompt TTF natural gas broke down briefly amid technical carbon buying, after prices failed to conclusively breach a key support level.

China will need carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce emissions from its most polluting sectors and both subsidies and credit finance will be useful to roll out the technology, but incentives will also “exacerbate the carbon rebound effect”, researchers have warned, highlighting trade offs.

A Singapore-headquartered carbon developer has secured an additional investment for scaling high-quality carbon projects in the Global South, the developer announced Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has committed to ringfence $40 million towards conservation and restoration projects in Brazil through a philanthropic entity backed by the Gulf state, local media reported on Wednesday.

New research suggests carbon sequestration through biochar could be more long-term that previously thought, with analysed samples capable of storing carbon for some 100 million years.

Governments should align their measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks to streamline global carbon removal (CDR) efforts, according to a recent Japan-sponsored report.

China's forest carbon market could be 'overheating' following the relaunch of the national offset programme, given concerns over regulatory inconsistencies and forest ownership issues, researchers have warned.

Rystad Energy releases data days after Ukraine stopped flows of Russian gas through its pipelines

Europe bought a record amount of liquefied natural gas from Russia last year, data shows, despite EU efforts to ditch the fossil fuels funding Putin’s war chest.

Ships carrying 17.8m tonnes of ultra-cold Russian gas docked in European ports in 2024, up by more than 2m tonnes from the year before, according to analysts Rystad Energy.

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The wild cats were humanely trapped using cameras near baited traps and are in quarantine

Two lynx that were illegally released into the Scottish Highlands have been captured overnight and are said to be in good health.

Police had issued a warning to the public on Wednesday evening not to approach the wild cats, after several sightings in the Drumguish area, near Kingussie.

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