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Millions of crickets – or rather shield-backed katydids – migrating across state, after hatching was delayed in spring

Millions of flightless insects known as Mormon crickets have descended across Nevada, alarming residents, blanketing roadways and buildings, and fueling nightmares.

Footage shared on social media and by local news outlets captures six Nevada counties under siege, with thick carpets of bugs moving slowly and efficiently across the state. A local hospital had to deploy brooms and leafblowers to clear the way for patients to get into the building, a spokesperson for the Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital, told local news outlet KSL.

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A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

Ahead of a key meeting, the World Bank has outlined how introducing a carbon tax on international shipping could raise up to $3.7 trillion through 2050 to finance the decarbonisation of the sector.

Three high-ranking executives, who previously worked for the Dublin-based fund services giant Waystone, have launched a new agtech venture capital firm that is exploring the possibility of establishing a blockchain-based carbon exchange.

Speculators raised their net holdings of California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) this week as producers took advantage of a steady price increase and reduced CCA net interest, but picked up RGGI Allowances (RGAs) despite a lack of momentum in the US Northeast power sector carbon market, data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

Filipinos tell the BBC what it's like being routinely displaced for weeks or months on end.

The Air Quality Program (AQP) within the Department of Ecology is looking to fill a Senior Cap-and-Invest Market Monitor (Financial Examiner 4) (In-Training) position. This position is located in our Headquarters Office in Lacey, WA.

North American ecosystems might be more resilient to global warming than previously thought, with potentially significant implications for climate change modelling, a new study has revealed.

California and Quebec will offer slightly fewer carbon allowances at this August's auction compared to the Q2 2023 sale last month, according to a government notice published Friday.

Bioenergy crops such as miscanthus and switchgrass, known for their multiple environmental benefits, could prove more appealing to American farmers if supported by carbon finance, according to a new study.

Switzerland faces a public vote on Sunday on whether to back the government’s draft climate law, with polls suggesting that citizens may reject legislation for a second time in two years.

Feats of endurance such as this provoke wonder for what they reveal about what it means to be human

The story of four children discovered deep in the Amazon jungle, grieving, hungry and insect-bitten but otherwise uninjured despite being lost for 40 days after a plane crash, feels closer to myth or fairytale than real life. That a dog apparently accompanied them for some of this time, before itself going missing, is yet another fantastical element in a drama that has gripped Colombia and much of the world.

Feats of endurance involving children always command attention. What makes this one so astonishing is that sisters aged 13 and nine not only kept themselves going on a mixture of cassava flour salvaged from the wreck, and foraged fruits and seeds, but also helped their four-year-old brother and baby sister – who had her first birthday in the forest – to stay alive. The children, said Colombia’s leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, are “an example of total survival”.

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EU institutions have provisionally agreed to lower the perceived level of financial risk associated with EU Allowances, reducing the capital requirements banks need to hold when trading these units but declining to extend the same treatment to voluntary carbon credits.

Environmental product development firm IncubEx is aiming to boost uptake in its suite of clean fuel credit offerings, and is also making several changes to enhance its project-specific voluntary carbon marketplace, a company official told Carbon Pulse.

Kenya has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to supply emissions reductions and removals credits to the LEAF Coalition – a public-private initiative by global corporations and rich countries to purchase forest carbon credits certified by the jurisdictional Architecture for REDD+ Transaction (ART) programme.

Verra is reviewing all Improved Forest Management (IFM) methodologies which may shorten future project development timelines, the standards body announced Friday.

A Danish manufacturing company has teamed up with green group WWF to add two projects to its nature-based carbon portfolio as part of its 'beyond value chain' mitigation plans to "capture" emissions from its historical operations dating back to 1941.

The task of radically reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is daunting, the former chief scientist says. But it’s also a huge opportunity

“It won’t be easy getting to zero, Kathleen.”

We were at a dinner party soon after the May 2022 Australian election, which saw the Labor party, led by Anthony Albanese, form government, with an unprecedented number of seats won by the Greens and by climate-focused independents. Rolling her eyes, Kathleen pressed on in a triumphal tone.

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Feedback argues ministers’ failure to include measures to reduce production of meat and dairy products was unlawful

Ministers broke the law by failing to make plans to cut consumption of meat and dairy in England, activists will argue in a legal challenge after they were granted permission for a full judicial review of the government’s food strategy.

Overturning two previous decisions, the court of appeal ruled that the food systems campaigners Feedback could challenge the national food strategy on the basis that it failed to take into account ministers’ duties to cut carbon emissions.

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European carbon prices fell back on Friday, trimming the week's gains after the market had failed to hold on to its substantial jump on Thursday, as gas prices also dropped sharply as North Sea production was set to increase sooner than anticipated after unplanned outages.