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UC San Diego has added an innovative prerequisite to ‘prepare students for the future they really will encounter’

Melani Callicott, a human biology major at the University of California, San Diego, thinks about the climate crisis all the time. She discusses it with family and friends because of the intensity of hurricanes like Milton and Helene, which have ravaged the southern US, she says. “It just seems like it’s affecting more people every day.”

That’s one reason why she is glad that UC San Diego has implemented an innovative graduation requirement for students starting this autumn: a course in climate change. Courses must cover at least 30% climate-related content and address two of four areas, including scientific foundations, human impacts, mitigation strategies, and project-based learning. About 7,000 students from the class of 2028 will be affected this year.

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Verra has released two new tools to assess the additionality of project activities, replacing and updating CDM versions, in a move that will further align the standard body with the ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principle stamp of high integrity approval.

European carbon prices strengthened their correlation to natural gas on Tuesday, falling in line with TTF after the two markets had disconnected early in the month, as the energy complex weakened on easing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

Over 300,000 animals are killed or displaced annually in Tasmania, Australia due to logging-related activities, a paper published this week estimated.

Exclusive: EA warns it lacks budget to tackle England’s rising number of potential ‘forever chemicals’ locations

The number of sites identified as potentially having been polluted with banned cancer-causing “forever chemicals” in England is on the rise, and the Environment Agency (EA) says it does not have the budget to deal with them.

A former RAF airfield in Cambridgeshire and a fire service college in the Cotswolds have joined a chemicals plant in Lancashire and a fire protection equipment supplier in North Yorkshire on the agency’s list of “problem sites” for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

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A US energy software and service company is launching a digital marketplace in which energy traders and investors can exchange clean energy commodities with improved transparency measures, according to a Tuesday announcement.

Global South countries are expanding renewable energy at a faster rate than wealthy nations, but an investment gap still threatens clean energy goals agreed at COP28, according to research published Tuesday.

Residents and marine scientists unable to identify pale masses, as myriad theories are blown out of the water

They are slimy on the outside, firm and spongy on the inside and surprisingly combustible. And in recent months, they have been washing up on the shores of Newfoundland.

The depths of the Atlantic have long held mysteries, but the riddle of the mysterious white “blobs” spotted on the beaches of the eastern Canadian province has baffled both residents and marine scientists.

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The UK is seeking views on potential changes to its capacity markets scheme aimed at keeping flexible power capacity online while strengthening the security of supply and helping to push out unabated gas-fired power, the government announced on Tuesday.

Fertiliser production in Europe is struggling to compete on global markets due to the continent’s dependence on gas imports, the EU’s trade association has said, while warning against Russia's attempt to systematically undercut the bloc's producers to “kill the European fertiliser industry and create a dependency for our farmers”.

There are now 50 carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities operating across the world and another 628 in various stages of development, according to a report released Tuesday, with the inclusion of the technology in national UN climate strategies likely to drive further expansion.

Japan is planning to add a new carbon offset methodology for sewage treatment projects that introduce N2O decomposition equipment to its national J-Credit programme.

A scientist tasked with scrutinising Australian human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects on behalf of the Clean Energy Regulator has hit back against accusations about his practices and findings that the projects are over-credited.

Setting EU regulation to reduce emissions in agriculture too soon could erode the incentive for farmers to participate in private markets such as those involving carbon finance, according to a Danish agtech company.

An absence of knowledge and policy on durable carbon removals (CDR) at the government level, along with a lack of investor interest in funding such projects, is keeping India from realising its vast CDR potential, according to experts.

A New Zealand-based brokerage announced Tuesday it will launch a new version of its carbon trading platform next week.

As he travels along the Iranian coast, Khashayar Javanmardi photographs rusting ships, blazing wetland fires – and humans struggling to stay alive

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Countries promised to save 30% of land and sea for nature - but as their deadline approaches, only 24 have followed through with a plan

More than 80% of countries have failed to submit plans to meet a UN agreement to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, new analysis has found.

Nearly two years ago, the world struck a once-in-a-decade deal in Montreal, Canada, that included targets to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, reform billions of dollars on environmentally harmful subsidies and slash pesticide usage. Countries committed to submit their plans for meeting the agreement before the biodiversity Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which begins this month – but only 25 countries have done so.

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Nearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.

Queensland Premier Steven Miles has floated the idea of holding a plebiscite on nuclear power the day of the next federal election Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.