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Rio Tinto is looking to add battery storage to contracted wind and solar to power its giant smelters in Australia, saying they have no future with coal generation because of high costs and emissions.

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A group of Iowa House Republicans introduced several bills on Thursday that aim to put new regulations on CO2 pipeline development.

John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council discusses what's on agenda ahead of federal poll, and as SEC celebrates its 70th anniversary. Plus: Energy news of the week.

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Brazil's finance ministry is proposing to create a new agency to regulate and manage the country's recently approved ETS, national media reported Thursday.

The Public Accounts Committee warns the government of gambling public money on carbon capture.

A UK parliamentary committee has published a report highlighting significant risks and uncertainties in the government's carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) programme.

A Latin American carbon markets platform will host a show-and-tell for the first auction of carbon credits eligible toward payment of Chile’s CO2 tax next week, it announced Thursday.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has rescinded previously pledged funding to the UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) amounting to some $4 billion, alongside a pullback of voluntary climate risk determinations from major US banks.

The US Secretary of Energy appears to be making good on President Donald Trump’s promise to "unleash" fossil fuels with a new order moving forward plans announced in the president’s inaugural speech.

A New Jersey state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against several oil giants that sought to hold the oil companies liable for alleged damages wrought by climate change.

Carlyle-backed Amp Energy lands first of its kind finance for a major solar and battery project that will help propel South Australia to net 100 per cent renewables by 2027.

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Scientists say it is unclear how many more earthquakes will come to the idyllic Greek island.

Replanting habitat corridors offers wildlife a way to move between isolated habitat – and much of this is done by volunteer groups. Nigel Tucker, Research Associate in Environment and Sustainability, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers have found a pattern indicating certain ‘words’ are used more often than others – but humans won’t be speaking whale any time soon

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Humpback whale song is structured in a similar way to human language – with shorter sounds used far more often than more complex ones – a structure which helps infants quickly learn how to communicate from their elders in both species.

Across languages and whale song, some words, or word-like elements, are used frequently while others are infrequent. They follow a pattern known as “Zipfian distribution”, where the most used word in a language (like “the”) is used about twice as often as the second most common word, and three times as frequent as the third most common word and so on.

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The European Commission wants to raise the threshold of the EU’s new carbon border tax, a source from the bloc's executive confirmed, freeing up 80% of the eligible companies from reporting requirements.

A carbon analytics firm has said it expects nearly 200 million tonnes CO2 in voluntary carbon market (VCM) retirements in 2025, with the possibility of substantially more if demand from the UN’s CORSIA international aviation offsetting scheme is factored in.

Greenpeace says PM has ‘swallowed industry spin whole’ after plans unveiled to expand in England and Wales

Keir Starmer has channelled his inner Donald Trump and promised to “build, baby, build” in his push for more nuclear power stations, despite warnings from environmental groups about the industry’s record for soaring costs and long delays.

A day after the prime minister unveiled his plans to revamp planning rules to bring in a series of small modular reactors (SMRs) across England and Wales, Greenpeace said Starmer had “swallowed the nuclear industry spin whole”, and Friends of the Earth described the plans as “overblown, costly hype”.

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Brazil's Pantanal biome - which represents the world's largest wetlands area - has the potential to host carbon credit projects on 1.2 million hectares, according to a report by a Brazilian think tank.

A sluggish shift to clean heating risks derailing the EU's 2030 decarbonisation targets adopted under the Emissions Trading System for buildings and transport (ETS2), which is due to kick off in 2027, researchers say.

Middlewick Ranges in Colchester considered to be of national importance for nightingales and acid grassland

A council is proposing to remove the second-best place for nightingales in the UK from its local plan for 1,000 new homes, in a win for community campaigners and environmentalists.

Middlewick Ranges, a former Ministry of Defence firing range on the southern edge of Colchester, is set to be dropped from the city council’s allocated housing sites after councillors heeded a growing array of ecological evidence highlighting its national importance for nature.

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