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Poland's 'Heart of the Garden' named tree of 2024
California, Quebec agree to explore carbon market linkage with Washington state
FEATURE: EU CBAM importers risk having to pay large penalties due to suppliers denying data access
Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon
Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats
Scientists have discovered the fossilised skull of a giant river dolphin, from a species thought to have fled the ocean and sought refuge in Peru’s Amazonian rivers 16m years ago. The extinct species would have measured up to 3.5 metres long, making it the largest river dolphin ever found.
The discovery of this new species, Pebanista yacuruna, highlights the looming risks to the world’s remaining river dolphins, all of which face similar extinction threats in the next 20 to 40 years, according to the lead author of new research published in Science Advances today. Aldo Benites-Palomino said it belonged to the Platanistoidea family of dolphins commonly found in oceans between 24m and 16m years ago.
Continue reading...“No peace” for EU nature law as environment ministers meet next week
Scotland lacks credible plan to meet ambitious 2030 climate goal, warn govt advisors
UK company launches biodiversity net gain project with cattle farming
Countries to talk about climate pledges, finance ahead of COP29
Campaigners win lawsuit against airline’s carbon offsetting claims
Transport to make ‘almost half’ of Europe’s emissions in 2030 -report
Endangered pygmy hippo born at Athens zoo – video
For the first time in 10 years, a baby pygmy hippo has been born at Attica Zoological Park. Zoo staff said they were thrilled to welcome the birth as a lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity made breeding efforts complicated. The rare male calf was born on 19 February and joins his parents, Lizzie and Jamal, as the only pygmy hippos at the zoo. Native to western Africa, pygmy hippos are listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Continue reading...Price crash wipes $5 bln off the value of surplus voluntary carbon credits
Lagging UKA demand to rise by 2030, prices to hit triple digits, say analysts
PREVIEW: France, US to push financing for new projects at world’s first nuclear energy summit
Clermont locals pushed for this Queensland mine. Now Adani is fighting for the right not to employ them
The state rescinded its decision over Carmichael mine fly-in, fly-out jobs but it’s unlikely to be the end of the dispute
When Adani’s north Queensland coalmine obtained its final approvals in 2019, the residents of Clermont held an impromptu celebration at the Leo hotel.
“Our town needs it, everyone’s passionate about it, it will be great for the community. A welcome, welcome thing,” one local at the pub told the ABC.
Continue reading...Global logistics firm partners with bank to scale sustainable aviation fuel
AEMO issues another gas shortage warning, but analysts question why
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World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas
Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout
The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”.
The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce planet-heating emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
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