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They are carrying out detailed assessments of why so many buildings collapsed.

Almost 4,000 Australian plant species have never been photographed in the field, particularly in remote corners of the country. Without a proper record, they could die out without us even knowing. Thomas Mesaglio, PhD candidate, UNSW Sydney Hervé Sauquet, Senior Research Scientist, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Will Cornwell, Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian carbon accounting outfit teams with Schneider Electric to create software that allows businesses to track their full carbon footprint.

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A Paris-based hedge fund on Monday announced an equity investment into a new platform that will generate carbon removal credits from soil-based climate practices.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values held steady over the majority of the week and immediately after member states published the March auction result, but briefly collapsed to near six-month lows on Monday as traders went risk-off following the recent collapse of two US-based financial institutions.

Growing meat in vats could help us prepare for climate change - and curb the environmental damage done by traditional meat. But only if we can scale it up. Bianca Le, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Standardised and over-the-counter offset prices generally edged lower over the past week to extend a trend amid a continued dearth of activity in the market, and a continued build-up of surplus credits.

The European Commission has brought forward plans to present the its revised Electricity Market Reform to proposal to Tuesday, according to a Commission spokesperson on Monday, a date two days earlier than previously had been foreseen. 

President Biden approves an $8bn oil drilling project, in a move that has angered climate activists.

While public, private, and hybrid efforts are emerging that seek to better govern climate-related claims, currently the engagement of companies in voluntary carbon markets is greatly hampered by the lack of understanding and clarity around the types of claims that can be accurately and credibly made when integrating carbon credits into corporate climate strategies. A recently published academic paper seeks to review and define the core elements of such claims.

Environmental campaigners furious Alister Jack intends to deny trade exemption for bottle recycling proposals

Blocking the Scottish deposit return scheme for bottles would be an environmental travesty, campaigners have said, in a growing backlash to the UK government plans to undermine the project.

The charity City to Sea, which has been pushing for a deposit return scheme (DRS) to tackle plastic pollution, said the UK government could have avoided the clash with Scotland by working with the devolved countries to deliver a unified deposit scheme years ago. Instead Westminster had repeatedly delayed its own deposit scheme, which was only coming into force in 2025 – seven years after it was first promised by ministers.

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Annual coal burn in Turkey jumped 10% year-on-year in 2022 to hit a new annual record, according to generation data published Monday by an environmental think-tank, with Russian exports to the country surging last year even as prices shot up.

Campaigners warn that government and water companies have not done enough to conserve water supplies

River levels across the UK have been at record lows and are likely to be “devastated”, as new data forecasts broadly dry weather until at least May.

Campaigners have warned that the government and water companies have not done enough to conserve water supplies by building reservoirs and fixing leaks, as months of low rainfall could cause some areas to run out of water.

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The great flood of late 2022 changed the ecology of the basin’s rivers, and not in a good way

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As a fish ecologist who lives on the northern shoreline of Lake Cargelligo in western New South Wales, I’ve been fortunate to have had a front-row seat to the ever-changing drama of all aspects of the Murray-Darling Basin over the last 30 years.

It’s never been more dramatic than this past spring and summer.

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Technology giant Microsoft announced plans to invest in a marine geoengineering project that aims to enhance the ocean’s ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere with long-lasting storage at deep ocean depths.

Conservationists are confident invasive predator is dead allowing native creatures to flourish again in NSW’s Pilliga Scrub once more

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He was the fantastic fox that derailed a multi-million dollar plan to reintroduce endangered native species into one of Australia’s largest forests. But after a five-year hunt that involved 10,400 traps, 3,500 baits, 73 stakeouts, 55 days of scent-tracking dogs and 97 infrared cameras filming 40-hours a week, the red fox nicknamed “Rambo” is officially “no longer”.

It means, for the first time in a century, greater bilbies are running wild in north-west New South Wales.

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PM says energy security strategy will launch shortly after plans reworked to meet net zero commitments

An energy security strategy will be launched “shortly”, Rishi Sunak has promised, with a focus on ramping up carbon capture and small modular reactors to develop homegrown energy and meet net zero commitments.

Ministers have been forced to rework their plans after a ruling by the high court last July. It found that the government’s net zero strategy was unlawful due to a breach of the 2008 Climate Change Act, given the document did not outline how climate policies would meet legally binding carbon budgets.

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European carbon prices unwound their gains from Friday as risk-off sentiment spread across numerous markets after the weekend rescue of the US' Silicon Valley Bank, and energy prices were weaker despite continuing strike action affecting LNG import terminals in France.

Stephen Pritchard tells judge before sentencing that peaceful resistance is ‘most responsible thing I can do’

A judge has jailed an Insulate Britain protester for five weeks after he vowed to return to the streets to carry out more disruptive protests if he was not sent to prison.

Stephen Pritchard, 63, was one of the first four Insulate Britain defendants to be sentenced for causing public nuisance over their campaign of disruptive “civil resistance” protests on major roads in 2021.

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Workers on a wind farm being built in Ukraine are wearing body armour to ensure the project is completed in the northern spring.

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