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Record high temperatures for January and sparse snowfall have caused large parts of the Alps to appear unseasonably bare. Europe's record-breaking warm winter weather has closed ski slopes and forced resorts to open summer trails or shut altogether as grass and mud replace snow. Several countries across Europe recorded their highest ever temperature for this time of year

• Record warm winter in parts of Europe forces closure of ski slopes

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Demand for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits, including pre-purchases of long-term contracts, jumped a staggering 533% last year, although most of the volume was from one future mega-deal, while the spot market remained tiny, according to a report published Wednesday.

Exclusive: Leaked figures show tiny fraction of England’s farms received payment under sustainable farming incentive

Just 224 farmers in England were paid under the government’s flagship post-Brexit nature-friendly agriculture scheme last year, the Guardian can reveal.

Leaked figures show that a tiny fraction of farms received payment under the sustainable farming incentive (SFI), part of the Conservative government’s plan to replace EU farming subsidies.

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The European Commission has launched a call for innovative biodiversity projects to receive grants worth almost €200 million as part of a 2023 programme.

Carbon credit provider Climate Impact Partners has appointed former GE executive Sheri Hickok as its new CEO, succeeding Vaughan Lindsay, the company said on Wednesday.

Plants are thought more likely to thrive at Harlow Carr in Yorkshire than at their current home at Wisley in Surrey

In Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s unnamed narrator was shocked and bewildered by the over-proud “slaughterhouse red, luscious and fantastic” rhododendrons she encountered at Manderley on the southern coast of England. She might be even more thrilled if she’d seen them in Yorkshire.

The climate crisis has prompted the Royal Horticultural Society to plan a move of its important collection of rhododendrons from its flagship Wisley garden in Surrey to Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, the Guardian can reveal.

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Friends of the Earth claims the government "acted unlawfully" in approving the mine in Cumbria.

As Australia looks to the US and Europe on electric vehicle safety rules, carmakers are experimenting with sounds that will effectively warn pedestrians

Take a walk down any busy street and the noise can hit like a speaker accidentally left on full volume. The growls of engines accelerating when the traffic light turns green, motorbikes vying for position in the traffic, buses whizzing past and the odd rev-head all compete to be heard.

The sound generated by the internal combustion engine has shaped urban life for a century, but that is gradually going to change: by 2050, 90% of cars in Australia will be electric.

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Friends of the Earth says significant climate impacts not taken into account when go-ahead was given

Friends of the Earth has said it will take legal action against the UK government after ministers granted planning permission for a new coalmine in Cumbria.

The environmental campaign group said it would file its claim against the fossil fuel extraction project later this month.

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A carbon removal platform has added its first Spanish partner to offer biochar credits from Iberia for the first time amid plans to quadruple growth this year.

EUAs extended their slump on Wednesday as a continuation of unseasonably mild weather across Europe kept carbon under heavy selling pressure, shedding a further 3% to begin to test the €80 mark.

India’s cabinet on Wednesday approved initial outlay of 197.5 billion rupees ($2.4 bln) for a National Green Hydrogen Mission that is expects will make the county a global hub for production, utilisation, and export of green hydrogen.

The Thai government has released a draft sustainable finance taxonomy that bars gas from being classified as green, and will use a traffic light system to categorise its environmental considerations.

State-owned China Forestry Group Corporation (CFGC) has recently formed partnerships with two regional authorities in China, the latest in a growing line of similar government-led collaborations to explore the potential of forestry projects.

Defence personnel have been called in to help evacuate people isolated during 'once-in-a-century' flooding hitting a small town in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. Homes have been inundated by flood water in Fitzroy Crossing – home to about 1,200 people – and the Great Northern Highway is cut in both directions as some residents are airlifted 400km to Broome by helicopter. The fast-flowing waters also washed away part of a major bridge as the region experienced record flooding of the Fitzroy River. The fire and emergency services commissioner, Darren Klemm, warns residents of Willare and Noonkanbah to get to higher ground as the waters make their way downstream

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Walter Cunningham - described as a "true hero" - was on the first Nasa mission to broadcast live TV.

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Unfortunately, the Earth doesn’t have an off-site storage option. But there are ways to counter the impulse to buy

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Many of us are drowning in “stuff”. To find space for all our possessions, we are paying off-site storage companies. Australians spend an average of A$163 per month on self-storage, one recent survey found.

The number one item stored in these facilities is furniture. Other items we cannot fit in our houses include appliances and electronics, hobby items, sports equipment, collectibles, memorabilia, books and photographs, cars and wine.

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Additional emissions abatement actions modelled in Canada’s Fifth Biennial Report show the country still falling short of meeting its enhanced Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of a 40–45% GHG reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) figures showed Tuesday.

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