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Rio Tinto boss says renewables are essential for the future of its assets. But the new Queensland LNP state government may stand in its way.

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Wind and solar set new output records in NSW and across the main grid amid the latest heatwaves to sweep the eastern states.

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Scientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming.

Scientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming.

A CO2 removal (CDR) project portfolio manager has unveiled a new initiative aimed at widening access to bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technologies.

The Texas Attorney General (AG) has threatened enforcement actions against six major financial institutions if those institutions continued their commitments to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards.

A Canadian manufacturing company plans to invest approximately C$1.1 billion ($763.7 million) to develop electric vehicle (EV) technologies, including funding from multiple levels of government, it announced Tuesday.

Italian-based battery storage and EV charging company announces sudden passing of its Australian boss.

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A California-headquartered carbon solutions provider and an Estonian project developer announced Tuesday what they called the first-ever offtake agreement for afforestation credits from an EU-based project.

When authorities fight fires, they focus on human life and property. But animals are part of communities too – and disaster preparation should reflect this Danielle Celermajer, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney Anna Sturman, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sydney Blanche Verlie, Horizon Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Science, University of Sydney Freya MacDonald, Phd student in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney Natasha Heenan, Casual Lecturer, Political Economy and Climate Policy, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A coalition of over 160 businesses and organisations spanning the energy, manufacturing, and environmental sectors have called on congress to maintain bipartisan support for section 45Q tax credits, a federal policy incentivising carbon management technologies.

Researchers in Navarra, Spain are using the power of the sun to turn CO2 into methane – a possible substitute for natural gas.

There will not be a fixed price in Germany’s national emissions trading system (ETS) next year and it will not unilaterally opt in waste incinerators to the EU ETS, according to a last-minute cross-party compromise seen by Carbon Pulse that is set to be approved by the Bundestag on Friday.

The ruling centre-right European People's Party (EPP) is facing intense internal divisions over the future of the EU's Emissions Trading System for road and heating fuels (ETS2) and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and has so far failed to reach consensus on what the bloc's 2040 emissions reduction target should be.

Low-carbon cement producer Ecocem intends to build the first production facility dedicated to its new cement technology in the French port city of Dunkirk, the company announced on Tuesday.

More than a million credits from the world’s largest soil carbon project, the Northern Kenya Grasslands Project, could be invalid after a landmark court ruling this week.

A couple of early-stage direct air capture startups seek to stand out from the pack by offering the added benefits of generating electricity in one case, and water in the other, alongside capturing CO2 from the air.

Thermal energy storage (TES) could reduce energy costs by 30-150% while helping to decarbonise industrial processes and stabilise power grids, according to a new report released on Tuesday.

Baby shark Yoko hatched in early January, flummoxing staff and experts at a US aquarium

Birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it, according to Cole Porter’s classic song on the universal nature of sex.

But a baby swell shark born in a Louisiana aquarium that houses only females has flummoxed marine experts and raised the possibility that the species may not require such earthly pleasures to produce offspring.

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A Lisbon-based advisory firm has launched an initiative to support collection and recycling projects entering the inaugural plastic credit market, aiming to scale private financing towards developing countries, its co-founders told Carbon Pulse.