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The decision follows years of trials but some farmers are concerned there could be negative impacts.

European carbon prices were modestly weaker on Friday morning as the market continued to track the intraday movements in natural gas, consolidating and trading in a progressively narrower range as the weekend approached.

Countries at the resumed COP16 UN biodiversity summit late Thursday reached a hard-fought agreement on a plan to mobilise finance for nature, in a decision that draws a line under months of tensions despite delaying critical steps to bridge the existing funding gap by the end of the decade, according to observers.

The European Commission’s proposal for a Clean Industrial Deal, unveiled on Wednesday, contains laudable initiatives but falls short of “structural solutions” to issues like trade, high energy prices and the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), said steel association Eurofer.

Cookstove credits could represent a major source of supply under ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), particularly under the first phase, offering airlines a cost-effective entry point to offset their emissions, according to an industry alliance.

Bianca, Garance and Honde churn across Indian Ocean as Alfred, Rae and Seru spin through south-west Pacific

An uncommon meteorological event unfolded on Tuesday when six named tropical cyclones were active simultaneously in the southern hemisphere, several in close proximity to one another.

Three developed in the south-west Pacific. Severe Tropical Cyclone Alfred formed on 20 February in the Coral Sea to the north-east of Australia, reaching an intensity equivalent to a category 4 hurricane on Thursday with sustained winds of 105mph (170km/h) and gusts at about 140mph.

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Permit prices in China's national emissions market fell below 90 yuan ($12.35) over the past week, touching the lowest level in six months, with analysts expecting the bearish sentiment to extend into March.

The carbon management industry in the US requires a slate of federal policies to unlock its potential on a global scale, according to a report from an industry group.

Floods, whale strandings and coral bleaching all more likely, say researchers, as 10% of ocean hits record high temperatures in 2023-24

The world’s oceans experienced three-and-a-half times as many marine heatwave days last year and in 2023 compared with any other year on record, a study has found.

The sustained spike in ocean temperatures cost lives and caused billions of dollars in storm damage, increased whale and dolphin stranding risks, harmed commercial fishing and sparked a global coral bleaching, according to the paper published on Friday in Nature Climate Change.

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Emissions from the near-70% of the sectors covered by Australian greenhouse gas reporting requirements have been on the wane since 2019 and fell again in 2024, according to data from the regulator released Friday.

Small patches of scrambled egg lichen moved from Cornwall to Breckland region, where it was last seen in 1994

A rare lichen has been reintroduced to its historical habitat of East Anglia – with the help of some bookbinding glue.

Scrambled egg lichen, so named for its bright yellow, crumbly appearance, was once common in the Breckland region of Norfolk and Suffolk but was last seen there in 1994.

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Australia’s Emission Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) is seeking feedback on the market’s 2021 soil organic carbon method, as it looks to ensure it meets the scheme’s offset integrity standards (OIS).

Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks

The release of beavers into English waterways is to be allowed for the first time in centuries, the Guardian can reveal.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, is to announce that nature groups will be able to get a licence for the release. The first releases could happen this autumn.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER) expects facilities covered by the Safeguard Mechanism to have emitted more than 9 million tonnes of CO2e above their baselines in 2023-24, it said Friday, while data on SMCs showed issuance levels so far don’t quite meet expectations.

For decades, the Swiss city has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe

Susanne Hablützel breaks up her work day by staring out the window at a rooftop garden. The view is not spectacular: a pile of dead wood sits atop an untidy plot that houses chicory, toadflax, thistle and moss.

But Hablützel, a biologist in charge of nature projects in Basel, is enthralled by the plants and creatures the roof has brought in. “Tree fungi have settled in the trunks, and they are great to see – I love mushrooms. You can also see birds now – that wasn’t the case before.”

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Development of Southern Ocean offshore wind zone – that Peter Dutton promises to rescind – moves ahead with federal Labor's blessing, while spooked developers hit pause in the Illawarra.

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President Donald Trump has ordered his government to stop using paper straws. A better approach is to avoid using single-use products. Bhavna Middha, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Kajsa Lundberg, Research Fellow Sustainable Consumption and Policy, Centre for Urban Research, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University Ralph Horne, Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The network lobby is arguing that we must wait for the grid to build out renewables and decarbonise before doing anything about gas demand. It's nonsense.

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AEMO flags potential forecast tweaks for consumer energy resources, the gas market, coal closures and EV uptake as it prepares input for its next grid blueprint.

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