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The cute rodent helps combat drought and boosts biodiversity. Its rewilding is welcome and long overdue

The first time I laid eyes on a beaver was a couple of years ago on the Devon farm of Derek Gow, the farmer turned rewilder, who brought the furry rodents back to the UK 30 years ago.

It was magical. Sitting in the June dusk, the pink-and-purple sky was reflected in the still ponds of the beaver habitat. Suddenly, ripples emerged from the lodge and the head of a kit – a baby beaver – popped up from underwater.

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Animal rights campaigners and marine zoo official say Mediterranean is 'too warm' for killer whales.

Backing of Glencore angers campaigners who have highlighted firm’s environmental breaches in South Africa

One of the world’s biggest banks, JP Morgan, has promoted ­environmental and “sustainable” funds to customers which have invested more than £200m in the mining giant Glencore, it can be revealed.

Ethical investing has become big business for JP Morgan and other financial giants, with worldwide “sustainable” investing expected to surpass $40tn by 2030. But the industry now faces scrutiny over the rules around investments focusing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

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A US-based non-profit has unveiled a new online tool designed to calculate the net CO2 removals achieved by direct air capture (DAC) facilities, providing a detailed lifecycle emissions analysis for the burgeoning CDR technology.

Local MP writes to authorities over ‘irresponsible’ motorists flocking to see sunrise and sunset at Mam tor

An MP has called for action on irresponsible parking at Peak District beauty spots that he says is being fuelled by a TikTok craze.

Jon Pearce, the Labour MP for High Peak in Derbyshire, said people had been flocking to the area to see the sunrise and sunset at Mam tor.

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A climate technology has launched a new blockchain-based voluntary carbon credit aimed at reducing methane emissions by diverting organic waste from landfills and converting it into compost.

Thailand is launching a German-backed €118-million ($122.5 mln) initiative to promote 'climate-smart' rice farming, aiming to support more than 253,000 farmers and cut carbon emissions by 2.44 million tonnes of CO2e by 2028.

A bill looking to overhaul transportation choices for consumers and vehicle emissions standards was introduced in the US Senate earlier this week.

Alberta’s environment ministry discussed the incidence of “zero-emitting” facilities under its programme to address industrial GHG emissions, among a suite of other updates in an annual stakeholder workshop Friday.

A bipartisan, bicameral bill in the state legislature promoting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production would prompt regulators to hit the brakes on the latest Washington Clean Fuel Standard (WCFS) rulemaking.

A bipartisan group of Washington legislators this month introduced a bill to direct the state’s Department of Energy (ECY) to establish reporting requirements for the sale of exempt fuels used for agricultural purposes under the Climate Commitment Act (CCA).

A mixture of legislative certainty and regulatory uncertainty drove investor sentiment across California Carbon Allowance (CCA), Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA), and Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LFS) futures and options holdings, latest figures from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

Canada’s provincial energy powerhouse is taking no chances on potential US energy tariffs with a new budget that leaves room for their implementation, though revenues from its carbon market are forecasted to take a roughly 50% hit.

California environmental groups are challenging a funding request from state regulator ARB that the agency says would be used to increase staffing and help establish the state’s carbon management deployment strategy.

Impending tariffs by President Donald Trump threaten to clamp the nation’s arterial energy relationship with Canada, potentially plunging the US’s closely tied Northeast energy markets into uncertainty and leaving the northern neighbour to calibrate its response. 

Embattled carbon project developer C-Quest Capital and its affiliated entities this week filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Delaware court, citing financial distress and insufficient capital to sustain operations.

Most of the objections to a solar and battery project in regional NSW came from people a long distance away. One even forget to change the name of the project he was opposing.

The post Long distance objectors pile in against small solar-battery project in regional NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Minnesota House of Representatives this month introduced a bill to repeal certain clean vehicle rules under the state's environmental regulations.

European climate policy advocates are calling on EU member states to implement environmental dividend schemes as a socially just way to distribute revenues from the bloc's Emissions Trading System (ETS), as experts point to significant shortcomings in Italy.

A Netherlands-based fund this week announced the formation of a green hydrogen blended finance fund, securing an initial €150 million from European donors.