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The measures are part of a pledge to protect peatlands, the wild boggy spaces that soak up carbon.

Heavy rains have triggered historic flooding, killing more than 900 people since June.

One man's quest to present the historic Moon missions in a way that befits their importance.

After more than 70 days of extreme temperatures and low rainfall, China has seen its worst drought on record.

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

Compliance entities across both the WCI and RGGI cap-and-trade markets increased their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) holdings this week, while managed money shed length in tandem across both markets, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Biodiversity certificates scheme for private landowners gets mixed reception as issues with likened carbon credits system linger

Conservation groups have called on the Albanese government to get on with strengthening the country’s environmental protections after it announced a plan to create a market for nature restoration.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the new scheme would recognise private landholders who restored and managed habitat by granting them biodiversity certificates that could then be sold to other parties.

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Through working with recognised carbon certification organisations, as well as investing in the development of new and more effective protocols, we can accelerate the move towards climate-positive agriculture and champion farmers as key participants in the climate change solution, argues Mike Frank of agrochemical firm UPL. 

A carbon credit rating agency on Friday put nine projects 'on watch' for a potential change in its grading, identifying several ACR-certified US activities and Cambodian REDD projects.

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to include two common ‘forever chemicals’ in Superfund law

The Biden administration on Friday announced a new proposal that could force polluters of two common PFAS compounds to pay billions of dollars for the toxic substances’ cleanup.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, the statute that guides cleanup at the nation’s most contaminated sites.

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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including bathing elephants, a slow loris and newborn panda twins

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A project financed by Finland's environment and land use ministries is drawing up guidelines for those accessing carbon offsetting services and will aim to publish a final set of rules in January 2023.

But the Liberal Democrats call the plans a "cruel joke" pointing to higher bills for consumers.

A veteran project developer has teamed up with a blockchain marketplace to underline the ongoing inroads of decentralised finance and digitalisation in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) that threatens to undermine traditional intermediaries.

Lib Dems say investment will end up on customers’ bills and public will be paying for executives’ bonuses

The UK government’s strategy to tackle sewage discharges is a “cruel joke”, critics have said, after ministers laid out plans to stop the pollution.

George Eustice, the environment secretary, announced that water companies would have to invest £56bn over 25 years into a long-term programme to tackle storm sewage discharges by 2050.

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Analysts told Carbon Pulse that higher coal burn will keep support for EUA prices despite a rising number of industrial shutdowns across Europe due to fresh record highs across power and gas markets that will dent demand for emissions allowances.

A New York-based logistics real estate firm on Thursday announced a nearly $5 million investment into a nascent forest carbon offset programme for small landowners, a move expected to generate hundreds of thousands of VERs.

Peter Purves says innovation to cut waste is a disaster for amateur arts and crafts

Peter Purves has decried the invention of tubeless toilet rolls as a “complete catastrophe” as it deprives the public of a key component of amateur arts and crafts.

Loo paper brand Cushelle has become the first company to remove the cardboard inner tube from its packaging in an attempt to reduce waste.

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A journey down the waterway in an area of outstanding natural beauty highlights troubles facing UK rivers

The thick mist hangs low over the high moor where the river rises from a boggy wilderness. It rushes over granite slabs and waterfalls down rocks, pooling alongside small oaks amid the coconut tang of yellow gorse, before picking up pace once more, fed, at last, by a few days of rain.

Twenty-three miles downstream its brackish flow swooshes at pace into a steep-sided estuary where paddleboarders ride the tidal motion and surfers run into the swell of Bigbury Bay.

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European carbon traded sideways for a third day on Friday as market participants complained of a lack of direction, even as energy prices continued to race to new records as Europe faced the prospect of energy shortfalls this winter.