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Ohio woman, 25, was tossed 10ft in air after getting close to female bison on boardwalk

An Ohio woman was gored by a bison after approaching the animal while visiting Yellowstone national park in Wyoming, park officials said on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old was visiting the national park from Grove City, Ohio, about 20 minutes outside Columbus.

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Ohio woman, 25, was gored and tossed 10ft in air after getting close to female bison on boardwalk

An Ohio woman was killed by a bison after approaching the animal while visiting Yellowstone national park in Wyoming, park officials said on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old woman was visiting the national park from Grove City, Ohio, about 20 minutes outside Columbus.

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It’s been a decade since I got on a plane, but global warming and chaotic airports mean it has been easy to stay on the ground

I haven’t been on a plane for a decade – since 2012, which would be nice to look back on as a halcyon time, if only to run screaming from the blazing fuselage of the present for a second. But the truth is, Boris Johnson was already mayor of London, and it was one of the 10 warmest years on record. That September, the Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest extent recorded. The climate emergency was happening. It just hadn’t been declared yet.

That summer of 2012, also on record as the last time I felt strange stirrings known as national pride, I watched the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in the basement of a Krakow bar. Four months later, days after discovering I was pregnant with my first child, I took two long-haul flights and a sea plane to a new luxury resort in the most undiscovered part of the Maldives. For four nights. On a press trip.

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Rewilding advocates say decision by royal estates is ‘an appallingly undemocratic affront to our futures’

The duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, two of the royal family’s largest portfolios of land, have snubbed tree campaigners who are calling for the royals to rewild their estates.

Rewilding advocates at the campaign group Wild Card have been meeting for months with the crown estate, which manages most of the royal land and pays the revenue into the Treasury. They say relations have been “really positive”.

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EUAs posted modest gains in another thinly-traded session on Wednesday morning, as traders focused on events in Brussels where lawmakers were setting out positions ahead of next week's full Parliament vote on the EU ETS reform package.

Any move to lower the emissions baseline for major emitters participating in Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism will drive investment in hydrogen and other low carbon technologies, the chair of the country’s Clean Energy Regulator said at a conference on Wednesday.

Seaweed could help feed world and reduce climate crisis impact, Vincent Doumeizel tells Hay festival

Seaweed could help feed the world and reduce the impact of the climate emergency, a UN adviser on food has suggested.

Speaking at the Hay festival in Wales, Vincent Doumeizel suggested that the term “sea forest”, which is how seaweed is referred to in Norway, would be more appropriate, “because we would understand that we need to protect and preserve them as we do with all the land forests”.

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Carbon credit trade is set to increase 30-40-fold by 2035, in turn driving their price as high as $150/tonne by the middle of the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday modelling global market scenarios consistent with meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.

New Nationals leader David Littleproud is keeping up the party's support for nuclear power in Australia, but is the debate dead in the political water?

The post Has the Coalition gone cold on nuclear power? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Experts believe plants in Sussex and Kent were 'stolen to order’

A spate of thefts of rare orchids from sites in southern England has concerned scientists, who say endangered species may be at risk.

Orchid experts believe that the plants, from locations including in Sussex and Kent, may have been “stolen to order”.

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Japanese J-Credits from renewable energy projects sold above 3,000 yen ($23.18) for the first time in the latest government sale, as demand continues to rise ahead of the launch of the domestic voluntary carbon market.

The full European Parliament is likely to scale back its ambition for EU ETS reform in a vote next week, with senior lawmakers targeting a 63% emissions cut by 2030 as a compromise between the 67% level sought in an interim parliamentary ballot and the 61% goal proposed by Brussels.

Known as 'that sand girl' on TikTok, 24-year-old Franziska Trautmann is trying to help restore Louisiana's eroding coastline ... with glass sand. 

The state loses about an American football field's worth of land every 100 minutes because of coastal erosion, so Trautmann and her co-founder, Max Steitz, decided to take action and launch Glass Half Full, the only glass recycling facility in New Orleans.

So far the venture has diverted more than 2.2m lbs of glass from landfills, and the charity is working with scientists to expand its work to other parts of the world experiencing coastal erosion. 

Sand is the most exploited resource in the world after water but its use is largely ungoverned, meaning we are consuming it faster than it can be naturally replaced

• 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel extracted each year, finds UN study
• Green teen memes: how TikTok could save the planet
  

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Offset project developer and consultancy South Pole has hired the CEO of a rival firm to lead its climate solutions division in Europe's DACH region.

The Guangdong provincial government has pushed back the annual compliance deadline under its emissions trading scheme by two months amid Covid-related restrictions to business activities.

Katharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation

The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned.

Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy in the US and professor at Texas Tech University, said the world was heading for dangers unseen in the 10,000 years of human civilisation, and efforts to make the world more resilient were needed but by themselves could not soften the impact enough.

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African delegation says proposed new law ignores local voices and could harm rather than save wildlife

Britain’s international environment minister, Zac Goldsmith, and celebrity anti-trophy campaigners like Ricky Gervais have been accused of neocolonialism by African community leaders, who warn they are ignoring the voices of people who live alongside elephants, lions and other wildlife.

The UK government is expected to bring forward a ban on the import of hunting trophies during this parliament, arguing that the new law will strengthen the conservation of endangered species.

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Amber and Diamond Energy join small energy retailers putting a hold on new customers - unless they have solar or a battery - because of crazy wholesale prices.

The post “Sorry, we can’t help today:” Energy retailers turn away customers in face of crazy prices appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The new Labor front-bench are a lot different from their Coalition predecessors. For a start, one of them drives a Tesla. Here's a profile of the key players.

The post Who are the major climate and energy players in the new ministries? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It's blindingly obvious that gas, coal and electricity prices bear no resemblance whatsoever to the long term cost of production.

The post Australia’s electricity markets are on crack: It’s time to do something appeared first on RenewEconomy.