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Fires and cities do not mix. Authorities have spent decades reducing the risk. But climate change will make some urban fires more likely. David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania Calum Cunningham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pyrogeography, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A hydrogen producer that would capture CO2 from its wood waste processes announced on Tuesday the first close of its Series A round funding for $7 million.

The Connecticut legislature on Monday discussed a bill that requires polluters to pay into a climate superfund that would be used to finance climate adaptation projects across the state, matching similar laws recently enacted in other Northeastern states.

Canada must seize opportunities to build its carbon removal sector in the wake of a US climate policy gap and trade war, stakeholders say.

In late January, just days after US President Donald Trump announced the country's departure from the Paris Agreement, reports emerged that Argentine President Javier Milei would follow suit – likely sacrificing international carbon finance while keeping most of Argentina’s carbon policies intact.

A leading UK insurer has invested £87 million in nature-based solutions (NbS), with a further £13 mln still to be deployed by 2030.

The new acting head of New York’s environmental conservation commission announced Thursday that the agency will release protocols this month for reporting GHG emissions as it prioritises advancing the state’s future cap-and-invest programme, known as NYCI.

Globally, scientists predict each person could lose up to 58 hours of sleep a year by 2100 if planetary warming continues unchecked. Ty Ferguson, Research Fellow, University of South Australia Carol Maher, Professor, research professor in exercise, nutrition and activity, University of South Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The carbon removal (CDR) sector will face a wave of consolidation and bankruptcies this year after concentrated buying of tonnage by three big tech giants in 2024 masked a fall in the number of new buyers, a platform claimed on Tuesday.

Fossil fuel interests accounted for 2,347 delegates, or 3% of all participants at COP28, gaining entry largely through business NGOs and developing country governments, according to a study released Monday.

The European Commission has kicked off a Strategic Dialogue on the future of the EU’s steel sector, as industry leaders warn that rising costs, global overcapacity, and stalled decarbonisation efforts threaten its survival.

National climate policies in Europe are being undermined by the EU ETS, with this interaction resulting in some countries' measures merely redistributing emissions rather than reducing them, a new report has found.

An Amsterdam-based firm announced Tuesday it has raised €8 million to develop sodium-ion battery storage for solar power, a technology it said could help the energy sector cut up to 14 billion tonnes of CO2 annually by 2050 if widely adopted.

A gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the north of England will emit more greenhouse gas emissions than initially declared, and will be at odds with the UK’s net zero commitments, said a scientist, whose claim was due to be heard in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

How do you stop people worrying about the climate emergency? By sacking anyone whose job it is to keep an eye on it. Chalk up another win for Project 2025

Some politicians go whichever way the wind blows. Not, however, the US’s esteemed leader, Donald Trump. He is such a force of nature that he can dictate the direction of the wind. During his first term, he suggested “nuking hurricanes” to stop them from hitting the country. A few weeks after that, Trump seemed to think he could alter the course of Hurricane Dorian with a black marker, scribbling over an official map to change its anticipated trajectory in an incident now known as Sharpiegate. Weirdly, Dorian did not end up following Trump’s orders. Hurricanes can be uncooperative like that.

Six weeks into Trump’s second term, the president hasn’t bombed any hurricanes, but he has nuked the US’s weather-forecasting capabilities. Last week, hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency, were abruptly fired.

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Companies are increasingly allowing consumers to purchase voluntary carbon offsets, reducing corporate responsibility for emissions while maintaining profitability, according to new research.

A British forest carbon fund has received a grant of over £87,000 from the Scottish government's Peatland ACTION fund, aiming to prevent peatland from drying out and generating CO2 emissions, with the project set to generate credits under the country's Peatland Carbon Code.

Researchers at University of Exeter warn many of the hunted species are important crop pollinators

Invasive Asian hornets are eating hundreds of different species of insects in Europe, including many which are important pollinators, researchers have warned.

The findings, from tests of the guts of more than 1,500 larvae, raise new concerns over the “extra threat” the hornet poses to native insects already under pressure from farming, changes in land use and chemical pollution.

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Smaller developers have struggled more with biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements than larger companies, an executive representing the government’s nature adviser has said.

A London-headquartered provider of consulting and capital markets technology services on Tuesday launched a new environmental markets infrastructure platform designed to support governments in issuing, trading, and managing sovereign environmental assets.