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Recent expansions of programmes at the US Department of Energy (DOE) pose “tremendous risk” to taxpayers as the agency needs to appropriate a large amount of money under tight deadlines, a report from the DOE Inspector General said.

Carbon removal technologies will need to start rolling out soon, government advisors told a parliamentary committee Wednesday, as they discussed UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s recently-announced national climate target of cutting emissions 81% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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Structures thousands of times narrower than a human hair suggest future uses for nanobot technology

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Australian researchers have created building blocks out of DNA to construct a series of nano-scale objects and shapes, from a rod and a square to an infinitesimally small dinosaur.

The approach turns DNA into a modular material for building nanostructures – thousands of times narrower than a human hair. Developed by researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute and published in the journal Science Robotics, it suggests exciting possibilities for future use of nanobot technology.

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The EU is proposing too long a timeframe for the approval of applications from companies looking to import goods subject to the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), according to feedback from industry associations and governments.

As the first year of CORSIA Phase 1 nears its end, airlines are planning their purchasing of eligible carbon credits despite the current short supply, according to a representative from a major commodity trading firm.

The English public generally approve of the environmental impacts of the country’s biodiversity net gain (BNG) policy, a pre-print paper has found.

A Spanish bank has pledged to mobilise €100 billion in sustainable finance over the next three years, it announced Wednesday.

The first stocktake of the ongoing negotiations on the UN plastic treaty showed on Wednesday a lack of progress on key measures to address plastic pollution, with some observers saying talks are nearing a tipping point.

European carbon prices are likely to experience a relatively stable winter, with downside potential in the case of above-average temperatures, according to analysts at a bank.

European and North African policymakers are hoping that a deepsea power cable across the Mediterranean will soon help to spread the region’s abundance of solar, wind, and hydropower across the EU – but technical, regulatory, and political challenges still abound.

Oldest Carnaby’s cockatoo in wild lived to 35, with eight recorded living beyond 21, researchers find

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Western Australia’s endangered Carnaby’s cockatoos can live up to 35 years in the wild, making them one of the longest-lived bird species, according to a study that began in 1969.

Eight Carnaby’s cockatoos aged between 21 and 35 years have been recorded, according to research published in Pacific Conservation Biology.

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Some 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives have registered to participate in UN discussions of a treaty aimed at tackling plastic pollution, the highest number at any of the negotiations on the agreement so far, according to analysis released Wednesday.

India’s largest aluminium producing company has partnered with an auditing and consulting firm for carbon reduction projects and biodiversity conservation in the Indian state of Odisha.

Fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives outnumber those of the EU or host country South Korea

Record numbers of plastic industry lobbyists are attending global talks that are the last chance to hammer out a treaty to cut plastic pollution around the world.

The key issue at the conference will be whether caps on global plastic production will be included in the final UN treaty. Lobbyists and leading national producers are furiously arguing against any attempt to restrain the amount that can be produced, leaving the talks on a knife-edge.

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A Dutch nature restoration company aims to improve the scalability of reforestation with a fleet of tree-seeding robots that could help national tree-planting schemes.

Danish CO2 reduction company Topsoe has partnered with Saudi oil giant Aramco to develop and commercialise low-carbon hydrogen technology, the two companies announced on Wednesday.

The second European Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen received the green light from the European Parliament on Wednesday, opening a new five-year policy cycle in Brussels that is expected to refocus the EU’s climate agenda on strengthening Europe’s industrial competitiveness.

EU carbon prices dropped to their lowest in five days on Wednesday morning along with a decline in natural gas, as weekly position data showed investment funds building length for a third week in a row.

Heavy industries, led by steel and the oil and gas sector, are fast-eating into the power sector's share of emissions under the EU ETS, opening a new era made of greater uncertainty in the bloc's carbon market, say analysts.