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Global action is urgently needed to tackle microplastic – and the problem has never been more pressing. Karen Raubenheimer, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Organising to stop gasfields or coal mines sounds like a similar challenge. But one environmental group has endured, while the other ran out of energy. Here’s why Amanda Tattersall, Associate Professor in Urban Geography and Host of ChangeMakers Podcast, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Bolivia is preparing a presidential decree that would require domestic carbon projects to transfer their credit issuances to the central government, as per national media this week.

A ramp up in federal funding is needed to boost research and development into the nascent marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) industry that will require robust public-private partnerships to scale and become commercial, a congressional committee heard Thursday.

Experts have said that they are confident the necessary factors for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) to recover are in place – but that this may not take place for some time.

The US is beginning to cede ground in long-running negotiations over Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, showing flexibility on the EU’s demand for strong minimum standards to govern international carbon markets, the bloc's chief climate negotiator said on Thursday.

Taiwan is planning to launch a domestic emissions trading in four years’ time, starting initially with a pilot phase, Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming told local media on Thursday.

As European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her new EU executive earlier this week, with climate policies scattered across various portfolios, observers in Brussels seemed willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, saying this configuration may serve the needs of EU citizens and respond to political radicalisation.

A major new report finds the Coalition's nuclear plan would add $665 to the average household's annual electricity bill, while a family of four would pay nearly $1,000 more a year.

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Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and more created their own companion pieces to kids’ works celebrating sharks and rays – and they’re on display at the Australian Museum now

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Victoria is home to perhaps the largest population and the only mainland state with ‘legislative relic’ of protections

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Land holders and managers along with landcare and environment groups want Victoria to remove protections for feral deer, as booming populations wreak havoc on agriculture and the local environment.

Jordan Crook, from the Victorian National Parks Association, said recognising deer as pests – alongside foxes, rabbits and pigs – would bring Victoria in line with the rest of mainland Australia.

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In West Africa, Pygmy hippos are said to carry a diamond in their mouths, which they use to light their way through the forest

The thing to know about the pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng is that she is angry, but also she is sweet. In photographs, she is often blurry and at all times, she is shiny. She secretes something known as “blood sweat” which is actually her sunscreen.

She is a hippopotamidae. She is stout. She runs like a piglet and has a snout like a very, very new puppy’s. She is very fast.

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US tech giant Google will buy 50,000 nature-based removal credits through 2030 from a Brazilian startup, marking the first purchase of its kind from the technology giant, the company announced Thursday.

A provider of carbon removals (CDR) credits has completed an oversubscribed Series A funding round, which will help to bolster its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) service, add more CDR technologies, and improve its efficiency and accuracy, it announced on Thursday.

The number of units available on England’s national Biodiversity net gain (BNG) register are set to double with the listing of one 617-hectare site, a restoration company said on Thursday.

A sustainability consultancy has launched a new platform that will enable its clients to access voluntary carbon credits.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a paper outlining its approach to developing the country's first national set of ecosystem accounts, ahead of a full rollout in early 2025.

The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has launched a Nature Investor Toolkit, a guidance framework that also sheds light on opportunities related to nature markets.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)'s recent decision to rule out renewable energy credits from its high integrity CCPs tag reflects a “somewhat blunt approach”, according to analysts at MSCI Carbon.

A Switzerland-based multinational construction materials manufacturer has invested in a low-carbon cement technology startup to decarbonise buildings at scale, it announced on Thursday.