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The only problem with being a refuse hunter is that once you start, it’s hard to stop – you could find a unicorn

When I was a child, the highlight of visiting my grandmother was being allowed to take her rubbish to the communal refuse room. The room had a chute that you could drop tied bags of household rubbish into, and they would travel down to a furnace somewhere.

My brother and I took it in turns to push the bag in, leaning over to try and watch it travel the length of the silver chute. Sometimes we’d try and pretend we could see the flames as the bag hit the furnace.

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Spider measuring record 7.9cm across is almost as big as largest female collected in 2021, which was named Megaspider by Australian Reptile Park

With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance.

The potentially deadly Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed “Hercules” was found on the Central Coast, about 80km north of Sydney, and was initially given to a local hospital, the Australian Reptile Park said in a statement.

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Washington's Department of Ecology (ECY) presented the volume of current vintage allowances on offer for its first of the four quarterly Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) auctions of the year, and also published revenue generated following the completion of the first year of the state's cap-and-trade scheme.

California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) plateaued and dipped early during the week following the holiday season before rallying late to near-record highs, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) declined slightly as the market continues to largely languish in stagnation, market participants told Carbon Pulse.

A Vancouver-based carbon offset developer announced an agreement on Thursday with a US non-profit to assist municipalities in decarbonisation efforts while generating carbon credits in the process.

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A Toronto-based voluntary carbon credit firm announced Thursday the reduction in the size of its Board of Directors as part of the firm’s cost cutting efforts.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) announced Thursday that it was rolling forward its emergency rulemaking on the state’s Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) sales ahead of the first auction notice for the year.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) on Thursday released closing dates on available funding for carbon projects, with deadlines as early as Friday.

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With smartphones as commonplace as towels and sunscreen in the beach bag, why not add coastal data collection to your list of holiday activities this summer? Look for the CoastSnap camera cradles. Mitchell Harley, Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney Fred Chaaya, Project Engineer, UNSW Water Research Laboratory Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The German government offloaded a record 358 mln emissions certificates in 2023 under the country's domestic CO2 tax scheme for transportation and heating sectors (nEHS), helping it raise an eye-watering €18 billion from carbon permit sales.

Stakeholders have mixed views about EU plans to make the bloc's dirtiest factories pay for more of their CO2 output by curbing their free allocation under the ETS, consultation responses showed on Thursday.

Paris-headquartered Ofi Invest Asset Management has announced it will exclude companies that produce pesticides, as part of its biocides and hazardous chemicals policy.

Exchange-traded funds have cut their EUA positions to the lowest in nearly two and a half years after a six-month decline in allowance prices that has seen the benchmark front-December futures contract drop by more than 31%.

Germany’s GHG emissions fell to their lowest level in 70 years in 2023, driven by an unexpectedly sharp decline in coal use and a significant drop in output from energy-intensive industries, according to a German think tank, pointing to a bearish outlook ahead for EUAs if this trend continues in 2024.

A forest restoration accelerator will focus on scaling up seed bank networks to generate mass momentum behind the planting of native forests, in a drive to recreate the success of Silicon Valley startups among a new wave of entrepreneurs, and help scale carbon credit generation.

Novel carbon dioxide removals techniques need to play a bigger role in the EU's climate policy, experts are insisting ahead of the release of the bloc's proposed 2040 emissions reduction target.

The UK government must take further action to reach its target of conserving 30% of the country’s land and sea by 2030 (30x30), beyond its national guidance, a society of ecology-focused scientists has said.