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Frogs, lizards, snakes and insect pests are being transported across the world on ornamental plants.

A Toyota subsidiary agreed to plead guilty to charges of emissions fraud, resulting in a $1.6 billion settlement, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday.

The ongoing political transition in Canada and federal biofuels tax credits in the US could jeopardise Canadian clean fuel programmes, panellists at a conference said Thursday.

Looking at the year ahead, the biofuels industry will be balancing programmes across different states and federal jurisdictions, with new sustainability guardrails in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), panellists said at a technical conference in California.

Wild tigers killed nearly 40 people in Nepal between 2019 and 2023. Solutions are hard to come by.

With the outlook for risk of fire, flood and other disasters increasing, this is not a problem that will go away

As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of our own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to exacerbate the impact and frequency of these unnatural disasters.

The images of loss and destruction in LA are particularly painful to those who have experienced such losses first-hand in Australia.

Nicki Hutley is an independent economist and councillor with the Climate Council

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Two energy industry companies have been awarded nearly $6 million from the US DOE to scale up technology aimed at reducing methane emissions.

The US DOE announced $13.7 million in available federal funding on Thursday to advance CO2 conversion from chemicals production and petroleum refining into usable products, adding to a string of awards since the start of the year.

Conservation groups can now share and compare climate adaptation tactics to support threatened species and ecosystems through a new online tool called AdaptLog. Jess Melbourne-Thomas, Transdisciplinary Researcher & Knowledge Broker, CSIRO Claire Mason, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An environmental group suing the US DOE over a $1 billion loan to a nuclear plant voluntarily dropped the case Wednesday, saying that recent legislation by the state of California rendered the case moot.

The flagship UN programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and boost forest carbon stocks has opened a public consultation for its 2026-30 strategy.

Europe’s short-term answer to high energy prices and declining competitiveness will reside in electrification, energy savings, and accelerating the buildout of renewables to meet the EU’s 2030 climate goals, said Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s first executive vice-president, on Thursday.

Benchmark European carbon prices could average €92 this year due to EU ETS policy changes, gas-to-coal switching, and the bloc’s 2040 emission target announcement, analysts said on Thursday.

An inaugural bond for climate action has raised $500 million from largely EMEA-based investors in a round that was over six times oversubscribed.

An international insurance agency and claims manager has introduced a carbon-neutral repairs initiative in the UK, which it said will set a new benchmark for sustainability in insurance repairs. 

A Paris-based startup has introduced a drone-based artificial intelligence tool to monitor and manage reforestation carbon projects.

US financial institutions say they will stick with their climate commitments despite quitting international net-zero alliances — but the loss of oversight and transparency provided by the alliances puts more pressure on policymakers and shareholders to ensure that promises are fulfilled.

A provider of on-farm biochar solutions in the UK launched a public consultation Thursday on its new Biochar Carbon Code, aiming to set the benchmark for high-quality biochar carbon removal.

The UK government pledged Thursday a record £410 million investment in nuclear fusion research and development over the next two years to kickstart the rapid deployment of the clear energy sector.

A UK natural capital portfolio has secured sponsorship from a rural property consultancy to continue its podcast, which discusses conservation, rural land management, and the natural capital economy.