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Anyone reading the Australian’s Newspoll survey might think there was an actual proposal in place to build small modular nuclear reactors around Australia – except there isn’t

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What happens when an uncosted Coalition thought-bubble to deploy an unavailable nuclear power technology across the country’s electricity grid is presented in an opinion poll as a concrete proposal?

You get a page one story in The Australian under the headline: “Powerful majority supports nuclear option for energy security” backed with two pieces of commentary, an editorial and a narrative reliably echoed by Sky News Australia.

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In the wake of Melbourne’s spectacular cricket swarm, we asked the author of Australia’s Guide to Crickets why insects gather in such large numbers and how to keep them out of our homes. David Rentz, Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Allowance holdings of power sector emitters under the RGGI carbon market increased at the end of the fourth quarter in 2023 as emitters narrowed their net short position significantly, while quarterly trade volumes beat both year-on-year and prior quarter amounts, according to a report published Tuesday.

The New Zealand government has announced an independent review into the forestry sector component of the ETS to ensure it is efficient and cost-effective, it announced Thursday.

A sustainable fund focused on improving water security in east England has been announced by US-headquartered non-profit The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Anglian Water with a target raise of £30 million ($38 mln).

Stakeholders flooded the ARB with comments about proposed changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) programme, with broad support for tightening the programme but opposing views on a slew of draft rules including the sunsetting of avoided methane crediting, reversing intrastate jet fuel exemptions, and pushback against increased reporting requirements.

Argentina’s timber industry is critical to the country while lending itself to sustainable natural resource management, according to the Bioeconomy and Industry Secretariats.

Guyana will become the first country to see millions of its voluntary carbon credits deemed eligible and made available for global buyers in current phase of the UN's CORSIA international aviation offsetting scheme.

EU countries should explore a wide variety of technological solutions to achieve the bloc's target to cut emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, experts suggested on Wednesday.

The Odysseus robot broke a leg on touchdown but continued to stream data back to Earth

The Odysseus robot broke a leg on touchdown but continued to stream data back to Earth

The Odysseus robot broke a leg on touchdown but continued to stream data back to Earth

Last year was the hottest in recorded history. That heat led to a range of unusually intense weather events across Australia. Laure Poncet, Research officer, UNSW Sydney Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

‘Crucial’ UN resolution attempts to avoid repeat of injustices produced by Africa’s fossil fuel sector

In an attempt to avoid the “injustices and extractivism” of fossil fuel operations, African leaders are calling for better controls on the dash for the minerals and metals needed for a clean energy transition.

A resolution for structural change that will prioritise equitable benefit-sharing from extraction, supported by a group of mainly African countries including Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Chad, was presented at the United Nations environmental assembly in Nairobi on Wednesday and called for the sustainable use of transitional minerals.

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The UK must make overtures to link its ETS to the EU’s emissions market in order to avoid substantial carbon tariff burdens in Northern Ireland, though ‘non-discrimination’ challenges could apply under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules regardless, experts have told Carbon Pulse.

Scientists confirm sighting of two same-sex marine giants copulating in amorous encounter off Hawaii coast

Humpback whales have been observed having sex for the first time, with this landmark moment having an interesting twist – the two whales were male.

Despite decades of research on humpback whales, sightings of the male’s penis have been rare. Copulation by the species had not been documented by people – until now, when two photographers captured images of a sexual encounter between two whales off the coast of Hawaii.

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Brazil has teamed up with a large global climate finance group to rapidly ramp up funding for the protection of the Amazon rainforest and scale clean energy development.

Cuba has legislated financial incentives to generate CO2 removals via improved forest management (IFM) through a certification process mediated by the government, according to a resolution published in the country’s Official Gazette on Feb. 21.

A North American timberland owner has joined forces with a Texas-based energy to explore the potential for CO2 sequestration opportunities across a vast expanse of the southern US.

Financial institutions have been invited to sign a statement, calling on governments to agree on mandatory corporate disclosures on plastic pollution, by UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)