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Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as logging, poaching and setting fires. Cornelia Sattler, Research Fellow in Ecology, Macquarie University Julian Schrader, Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Alcohol increases the release of chemical sex signals and makes males more attractive to females.

Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%

The world is on track for disastrous global heating – but this will create profits for some air conditioning companies, according to forecasts by leading Wall Street financial institutions.

Recent reports by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and the Institute of International Finance all make clear the finance sector considers the Paris climate agreement limiting global temperatures, signed a decade ago by nearly 200 nations, is effectively dead and investors should plan accordingly.

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The EU’s Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF) regulation is a major opportunity to create a market for carbon removals big enough to attract investors, but overly prescriptive rules risk causing fragmentation before it even begins, according to a project developer.

Complexity continues to challenge the implementation of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), but any delay to the carbon leakage mechanism would be counterproductive to its environmental and economic aims, a conference heard on Wednesday.

A large European airline has warned Brussels it should reconsider the impact of its flagship Fit for 55 climate package due to wishful thinking around the cost of sustainable aviation fuel in the legislation, a conference heard Wednesday.

Chile last week launched the public consultation period for a new regulation that seeks to codify and clarify an existing but fledgling mandatory biodiversity offsets scheme.

French oil and gas major TotalEnergies has finalised three renewable energy acquisition deals, with projects planned and underway in Europe, Africa, and Canada, it announced on Wednesday.

Hurricane Helene proved a hard truth: a freezer of seeds is the literal version of putting all your eggs in one basket

About a month after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last fall, Roger Wynn and I met in an Asheville, North Carolina, supermarket parking lot. He’d driven two hours from Little Mountain, South Carolina, where the passing storm had also left its destructive mark.

“When the power finally came back on,” Wynn said, “two of my freezers didn’t work.” Wynn was worried not about spoiled food inside, but his seed collection. On that autumn day, in an act of forced downsizing and seed philanthropy, Wynn handed over two boxes filled with seeds. He wanted me, as founder of the non-profit Utopian Seed Project, to share the seeds with farmers across the region. The boxes contained a trove of Appalachian varieties: speckled field peas, white mountain half-runner beans, purple-podded bush beans and lots of butterbeans.

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Appeal court finds in favour of anglers who said plans to clean up river were so vague ​a​s to be totally ineffectual

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A group of anglers trying to restore the ecosystem of a river have seen off a challenge by the environment secretary, Steve Reed, who claimed that cleaning up the waterway was administratively unworkable.

Reed pursued an appeal against a group of anglers from North Yorkshire, who had won a legal case arguing that the government and the Environment Agency’s plans to clean up the Upper Costa Beck, a former trout stream devastated by sewage pollution and runoff, were so vague they were ineffectual.

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An EU-commissioned advisory group has recommended including more nature-based solutions (NbS) in its list of climate-related sustainable investment activities to stop investors bypassing them.

A much-anticipated new clean cooking methodology will be finalised and sent to the UNFCCC and major voluntary carbon standards this quarter after technical reviews and tweaks have been conducted.

DWS, Germany’s largest asset manager and a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, has agreed to pay a €25 million fine to settle a long-running greenwashing investigation by the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office.

The Swiss government formally approved on Wednesday a revised CO2 legislation, which establishes emission reduction targets across various sectors for 2030 and implements the measures adopted by lawmakers last year, with several provisions affecting the country's ETS.

The voluntary carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credit market is diversifying as corporate buyers seek high permanence, with bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) maintaining leadership but newer technologies steadily gain market share, according to an International Energy Agency report released Wednesday.

The global ocean economy could decline by 20% below 2020 levels by mid-century due to multiple threats, including climate change and biodiversity loss, according to the OECD.

Investments in activities harmful to nature are significantly outsizing nature-positive ones globally, with high-income countries performing better domestically but falling short of supporting environmental efforts abroad, a study has shown.

A new generation of European trains could reignite continental momentum for sustainability, just as the EU's carbon pricing is set to expand into road transport and the bloc's policy evolves.

The adoption of carbon compliance markets is accelerating around the world amid the impact of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), despite the US rolling back on climate policies after the election of President Donald Trump, the IETA conference heard Wednesday.

The UK has announced it is launching a Nature Market Accelerator to stimulate green financing for activities that boost biodiversity, ranging from biodiversity net gain (BNG) to voluntary carbon markets.