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Conservation volunteers could provide a crucial defence line against bird flu outbreaks in New Zealand by ensuring early detection. Brett David Gartrell, Professor in Wildlife Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Craig Brian Johnson, Professor of Veterinary Neurophysiology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Alberta is doubling down on threats to take the Canadian federal government to court over its proposed fossil fuel extraction emissions cap, the provincial government said during a public comment period for the federal policy.

It’s possible for massive fires to burn in Australian cities. Planning needs to reflect this

As the Los Angeles wildfires rage, we are watching a disaster unfold in real time.

We knew this would happen eventually. We have moved from possible futures to these things now happening. The deferment has ended.

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New Mexico state officials are expected to wrap up rulemaking on the state’s new Clean Transportation Fuel Standard (CTFS) and kick off the programme’s first compliance period in Q4 2025, state officials said Thursday.

Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create

The world’s richest 1% have already used up their fair share of the global carbon budget for 2025, just 10 days into the year.

In less than a week and a half, the consumption habits of an individual from this monied elite had already caused, on average, 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to analysis by Oxfam GB. It would take someone from the poorest 50% of humanity three years to create the same amount of pollution.

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The richest 1% have already used up their entire carbon budget for 2025, only 10 days after the start of the new year, charity Oxfam said in new analysis published on Friday.

Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) on Thursday approved proposed changes to the state’s clean fuels scheme, effectively establishing feedstock attestation requirements and a reserve account for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects under the programme, among other updates.

The US Forest Service has withdrawn a proposal that was designed to help safeguard old-growth forests and conserve their carbon sink capacity, drawing cheers from some Republican members of Congress preferring local management of resources.

Germany can be CO2-neutral by 2045 while cutting energy costs, and raising household, company and government income - without assuming a higher carbon price or more national debt, suggested a think tank this week.

Several major international companies retired last year carbon credits with a vintage of 2010 or earlier, according to new Carbon Pulse analysis of registry data, though fewer and fewer older units are being retired across the voluntary market.

California-Quebec joint carbon market participants held a surplus of nearly 409 million excess allowances and offsets in Q4 2024, after emitters met their obligations for the fourth compliance period, according to WCI programme data published Tuesday.

Verra is struggling to impose sanctions on the proponents behind a group of discredited Chinese rice carbon projects, receiving compensation to date from just five of the 25 activities that were exposed last year for malpractice.

The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

The fires raging in and around Malibu are huge, and they’re terrible, and they’re also the latest in a series of catastrophic fires in Los Angeles county and the region, the latest consequence of heat and drought and wind that have long created the region’s volatile fire weather.

The climate crisis has made it hotter and dryer and made wildfire worse here and across the west and around the world, but this region’s ecology has always been wedded to fire. Homes built in and around natural landscapes – canyons, chaparral coastal hills, forests, mountainsides – with a history of wildfire that are pretty much guaranteed to burn again sooner or later create the personal tragedies and losses and the pressure for fire crews to try to contain the blazes. But suppressing the blazes lets the fuel load build up, meaning that fire will be worse when it comes.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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The largest BP gas processing plant in Azerbaijan carried out record levels of gas flaring in 2024, according to new research published on Thursday.

Manufacturers have cited lack of access to accurate emissions data along the auto industry’s complex supply chain as well as administrative challenges among a range of factors hampering the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

The carbon removal (CDR) market more than doubled in size in 2024, but the surge was dominated by Microsoft, which accounted for 72% of fresh demand, according to a new report.

As Europe prepares for the rollout of new carbon regulations, Germany’s industrial sector faces mounting uncertainty due to delays in implementing climate policies.

An influential advisory body has proposed recommending amendments to its biodiversity-related criteria, in the EU taxonomy of sustainable activities, which could benefit biodiversity credits, an expert has said.

With 2024 set to go down as the hottest year on record, we know that what is coming is truly horrifying

The past 12 months have seen our world enter new territory. Last year will go down as the first time that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial times over a calendar year. We could crash permanently through the 1.5C guardrail within the next five years, and shatter the 2C limit as soon as 2034. This will almost certainly result in the tipping points for collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets being crossed, committing us to the drowning of coastal towns and cities.

In years to come, we will look back at this time and ask the same question that future generations will ask: why didn’t we stop this catastrophe?

Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL and author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant’s Guide

Roger Hallam is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil

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Only 36% of the UK’s ability to achieve net zero emissions in aviation by 2050 will come from low-carbon fuels and technologies and improved fuel efficiency, with the remainder to come from abatement outside the aviation sector and trading under the UK ETS and global aviation offsetting scheme, according to government projections.