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The historic royal tradition of "swan upping" reveals a sharp decline in swan young on the River Thames.

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Last year's record breaking heat, driven by climate change, gives a snapshot of the UK's future weather.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published the framework it will use to assess whether carbon credits meet its Core Carbon Principles integrity label, work that forges an uncertain path for many REDD projects and raises the bar on transparency.

California regulator ARB on Wednesday presented several scenarios for removing cap-and-trade permits in order to hit the state’s more ambitious emissions reduction goals, sending allowance prices skyward as traders expressed surprise at the magnitude of the potential supply cuts.

California offset issuance is catching up to 2022 levels, with nearly half of the credits over the most recent period providing direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), data from state regulator published Wednesday showed.

A German regional court has ruled that a retail firm’s climate neutrality claims lack sufficient credibility, the latest in a series of cases brought by an NGO alleging that carbon credits underpinning such voluntary corporate claims are unfit for purpose.

California electricity sector CO2 output held at 10-year lows through the first half of the year as renewable and hydroelectric power generation remained high, according to data published Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden’s administration announced a new Cabinet-level task force on Wednesday to help government agencies and stakeholders slash methane output, as it repeated previous steps the country will take to curb the potent greenhouse gas.

The REDD+ market needs root and branch reform and a non-market funding mechanism, warns a green activist group that finds there is very little evidence the sector in its current guise has caused meaningful reductions in deforestation and degradation, abated global emissions, or contributed to the development of forest peoples.

Officials are baffled by the remarkable behaviour of a large pod of pilot whales that grouped together in a heart shape before stranding themselves on a remote Western Australian beach on Tuesday evening.

By Wednesday morning, more than 50 whales lay dead on the shore, with volunteers, government workers and scientists fighting to save 46 more

• ‘We have never seen this’: scientists baffled by behaviour of pilot whales before WA mass stranding

• ‘What is the sea telling us?’: Māori tribes fearful over whale strandings

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British professor elected chair of UN’s expert panel, which warned in March that 1.5C threshold could be hit in 10 years

The British professor Jim Skea has been elected to head the UN’s climate expert panel, taking the helm of the organisation charged with distilling the best science to guide global policy in a crucial decade in human history.

Skea, who is a professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London and who co-chaired the report on solutions in the panel’s latest round of publications, said in a statement he was “humbled” to have been elected chair at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya.

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EU steel association Eurofer has lowered its 2023 consumption forecast for the 27-nation bloc, citing high energy prices, war-related disruptions, and sluggish demand prospects as resulting in a deeper-than-expected 3% recession for the ETS-covered sector, relative to 2022 levels.

The Australian’s latest adventure – two years traversing oceans and ice caps – aims to promote ‘carbon neutral exploring’

Geoff Wilson has spent much of his adult life exploring the planet. He has completed the only wind-assisted crossing of the Sahara and the fastest unsupported crossing of Greenland, south to north. He has stood atop Tanzania’s Mt Kilimanjaro with his father and spent a year sailing the world with his wife and three children. He holds the record for the longest solo unsupported polar journey in human history.

Wilson is the definition of a modern-day adventurer – a recipient of the Australian Geographic Society’s highest honour, the “lifetime of adventure” award. Having devoted decades to redefining what human beings are capable of, he is next seeking to prove that adventure doesn’t have to come at the expense of the planet.

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A new paper says its collapse could be imminent, but other scientists have serious reservations.

Applications for new connection agreements continue to jump sharply, but registrations and commissioning continues to drag.

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The growing uptake of rooftop solar PV – driven in part by the huge jump in wholesale electricity prices and retail bills in the past year – has taken the biggest bite yet out of the fossil fuel industry’s energy lunch. In an ironic twist to the cartel-like behaviour of the fossil fuel industry in […]

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Hungary could raise hundreds of millions of euros from its recently adopted carbon tax and free allowance transaction fee policy on operators that receive high volumes of EU carbon permit handouts, analysts told Carbon Pulse, though they do not believe it likely that other nations in the bloc will introduce similar regulation given the expected competitive disadvantage and costs for affected firms in the country.

European carbon prices rose to their highest in five weeks before giving up most of the gains as position data showed investment funds had boosted their net long position to the most in more than three months, while natural gas prices continued to gyrate, gaining as much as 5.2% before falling back.