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During a solar eclipse in a forest in Italy’s Dolomites region, scientists seized the chance to explore a fascinating question. Monica Gagliano, Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Southern Cross University Prudence Gibson, Lecturer and Researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A France-headquartered sustainable asset manager has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an English non-profit to boost forest finance.

Large parts of UK agricultural land, homes, roads, and railways are already at risk of flooding, and more will be in the coming decades as rising greenhouse gas emissions remain on track to push warming beyond 1.5C in the early 2030s, the government's independent climate advisors warned on Wednesday.

The industrial gas sector should accelerate its transition to renewable energy, and investors should hold it accountable for its emissions, a responsible investment charity has said.

Plans to protect UK from extreme weather are inadequate, Climate Change Committee says in scathing assessment

Labour is putting people, the economy and the environment in increasing peril by failing to act on the effects of the climate crisis, the UK’s climate watchdog has said.

Flooding, droughts and heatwaves are all increasing in severity due to climate breakdown, but current plans to protect people, land and infrastructure against extreme weather have been judged inadequate in a scathing assessment of the UK’s preparedness.

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The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) has launched its Scope 3 Action Code of Practice that allows companies to use Core Carbon Principle (CCP) tagged credits to hit interim mitigation targets.

A major Canadian investment bank has parted ways with its director of environmental trading, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A California assembly committee on Monday approved a bill that aims to establish CO2 pipeline safety regulations and subsequently rescind the existing pipeline moratorium in the state.

The scheme, part of policy blitz for local elections, will encourage councils and police forces to work together

Councils will be encouraged to work with police forces to seize and crush vehicles used by fly-tippers, in the latest phase of a government policy blitz before Thursday’s local elections.

Under a scheme being led by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), new legislation will impose jail sentences of up to five years for people who illicitly transport waste in England.

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New analysis challenges the perception that businesses are universally opposed to climate policy in Australia. Rather, it's a small but loud minority.

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Japanese industrial giant teams up with Perth-based developer for large wind farm to be built ahead of closure of the state's last coal generators.

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President Daniel Noboa only pressed pause on voluntary carbon market (VCM) legislation when he vetoed it last year, according to an Ecuadorian consultant and former official speaking to Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of the Colombia Carbon Forum last week in Bogota.

Energy is one of the sharpest political divides in Australia’s federal election. But different generations prefer quite different ways to produce electricity. Magnus Söderberg, Professor & Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A US federal transportation budget proposal introduced Tuesday aims to establish new federal registration fees for electric and hybrid vehicles, as well as rescind funding for several environmental programmes created under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

A US appeals court has temporarily stayed a lower court’s order that would have awarded several climate non-profits access to grant funds that were allocated under the Biden administration but are now being withheld by the US EPA.

A Calgary-based carbon removal (CDR) project developer is tapping a Toronto-based digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) firm for its Saskatchewan bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project.

The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC for N&P) on Tuesday launched a financial mechanism to provide small-scale grants aimed at helping developing member countries achieve their “30x30” biodiversity targets.

European ministers signalled strong momentum for reforming the EU Emissions Trading System for heating and transport (ETS2) at an Environment Council on Tuesday, with a majority of the bloc's 27 members pushing for revisions to address price volatility and household impacts.

Analysts forecast that sectors covered by the EU ETS2, which is due to come into force in 2027, could see around a 20% drop in emissions by 2030 compared to 2023, and that prices would reach around €100/tonne by the same date.

Exclusive: Conservation advocates say assessment shows controversial NT project ‘shouldn’t get past the starting gun’

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Two threatened mammal species could be wiped out at the site of a proposed industrial development on Darwin harbour backed by $1.5bn in federal funding, according to a leaked environmental assessment.

Conservation advocates say it shows the controversial Middle Arm industrial project “shouldn’t get past the starting gun based on impacts to nature”.

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