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Police call wildlife carer and snake catcher Tennille Bankes to a public toilet cubicle in Goondiwindi, Queensland, after a local is surprised by a spotted black snake in the toilet bowl. As Bankes lures the serpent out, she explains that they have a 'natural instinct to go into holes' and that toilets offer a place to cool down and the chance of a snack, due to the frogs that also take refuge there to escape the heat

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Saudi Arabia is tendering for 7.2 gigawatts of power to build four gas-fired power plants across two sites, which according to reports use carbon capture and storage (CCS) to offset CO2 emissions.

Exclusive: Badger Trust analysis comes 10 years after government started culls in England against scientific advice

Improved cattle testing, better financial and mental health support for farmers, and cattle and badger vaccination will more effectively tackle bovine TB in cattle than culling badgers, according to a report.

The review of evidence by the Badger Trust comes after 10 years of culling in England killed 210,237 badgers, costing £58.8m, without a significant easing of cattle TB.

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Data shows 2023 had second-highest record of rooftop solar installations as small-scale solar continues to grow

Quarterly installations of new solar panels reached a record at the end of 2023, with Australian households more than three times as likely to have a photovoltaic system as a back yard swimming pool.

Households and businesses added 921 megawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity in the December quarter, according to SunWiz, an industry data group.

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Committee finds British consumers contributing particularly highly to destruction of world’s forests

UK consumption is having an “unsustainable” impact on the world, and contributing particularly highly to deforestation, a report by MPs has found.

Products such as soya, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather may be products of deforestation, and the environmental audit committee has found that the UK’s deforestation footprint per tonne of product consumed is higher than that of other countries including China, calling it “unsustainable”. A deforestation footprint is similar to a carbon footprint. It signifies how much deforestation occurs per tonne of product consumed. Scientists have worked out the deforestation footprints of various countries by analysing trade patterns for goods which are linked to high levels of forest destruction.

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Sabah state of Malaysia will press ahead with one of its most controversial carbon projects, an official has confirmed, blaming technical issues for the delay in the project launch.

Germany's coal power production drops to lowest level in 60 years in 2023, even after closure of the last of its nuclear generators.

The post Germany’s coal power production drops to lowest level in 60 years in 2023 after nuclear exit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Thousands of acres of crops and productive farmland are under water thanks to Storm Henk's flooding.

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GAIT is searching for a highly proficient and seasoned Blue Carbon Consultant to assume a pivotal role within its Blue Carbon team, contributing significantly to the evolution of methodologies for Blue Carbon systems.

A new US-based livestock carbon insetting marketplace has announced its first sale, with the credits generated and transacted within the sector’s supply chain.

Over 25 commenters offered input on proposed amendments to the joint California-Quebec cap-and-trade programme following a November public rulemaking workshop, as multiple observers called for an updated price modelling but provided varied recommendations for adjustments to the scheme.

An infrastructure capital provider announced on Wednesday a $5 million investment towards the development and scaling of a new biochar facility expected to begin production as early as the first quarter of 2024.

Heavy flooding plagued Loughborough in Leicestershire on Wednesday as hundreds of flood warnings were in place across the country. Dozens of homes were flooded when the Grand Union canal began overflowing. John Brailsford, 67, said: 'These are the worst floods I’ve seen in 38 years of living here. The river sometimes bursts its banks but that’s further away and we were told the canal would never flood. It’s very severe. I saw police, fire and ambulance crews all along the streets, some with dinghies which have been rescuing people'

• Man killed by falling tree as Storm Henk causes havoc in southern Britain

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Chemical and steel companies expect to relocate their facilities over the coming decades as part of adapting to decarbonisation, a survey conducted last year revealed.

Vineyard Wind development, off Massachusetts coast, starts to deliver power to New England grid in moment hailed as ‘historic’

The US’s first large-scale offshore wind project, located off the coast of Massachusetts, has started producing power for the first time, delivering a boost to Joe Biden’s ambitions of a proliferation of coastal wind turbines to help combat the climate crisis.

The first wind turbine in the Vineyard Wind development started to whirr on Tuesday, delivering around five megawatts of power to the New England grid. The operator of the project said it expects to have five turbines operational in the early part of this year, before eventually having 62 turbines as part of the project, which will produce enough electricity to power 400,000 homes.

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A carbon standard has had a busy festive season with significant issuances from REDD+ projects in the last week, amounting to about 15% of its total credit issuance so far.

Czech government ministries are at odds over how their carbon market revenue is to be spent, delaying passage of ETS reforms into national law that are likely to trigger a step-up in spending among all EU nations.

Researchers using AI and satellite imagery find 75% of industrial fishing is not being publicly tracked, while wind turbines now outnumber oil platforms

Researchers have created the first global map of the industrial use of the ocean, using space technology and AI to reveal the emergence of a “new industrial revolution”.

A study led by Global Fishing Watch (GFW) and published in Nature found that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels, mainly operating in Africa and south Asia, are “dark” or not publicly tracked. More than a quarter of the activity of transport and energy vessels is also missing from public tracking systems, it found.

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The ongoing challenge of rolling out power grids to keep up with the increase in renewable energy capacity is being tackled head on by a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that maps out the underground environment, working with companies worldwide to speed the shift to clean electrification.