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Danger looms for larger species such as bumblebees, which have lower heat tolerance, leading to ‘cascading effects’ on ecosystems

The climate crisis could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research warning of potential “cascading” effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems.

Scientists in the US trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in an area of the Rocky Mountains to find out how different types reacted to changing climatic conditions.

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Spawning event goes wrong near colossal coral bommie dubbed Ayers Rock

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On Western Australia’s stunning Ningaloo coast, a coral bommie that began life 1,000 years ago sits ghostly white in the green waters of Bill’s Bay.

Experts aren’t 100% sure but they strongly suspect the death of the colossal coral community dubbed Ayers Rock.

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Simply designating an area as "for nature" does not mean it is beneficial for wildlife, researchers find.

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California fuel consumption rose year-on-year in January but stayed far below pre-pandemic levels, coinciding with the state grappling with peak infections from the Omicron COVID variant, according to state data published Tuesday.

Oil major Shell nudged up its use of carbon credits last year and still expects a 20-fold increase in its retirement of the units by the end of the decade, it said in a progress report on Wednesday.

The rise and rise of energy market optimisation technologies in Australia continues with the launch of UK-founded GridBeyond.

The post Australia gets new player in auto-bidding renewables and storage market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California will stick to its existing current carbon neutrality target in its forthcoming Scoping Plan update, rejecting other emissions pathways that could have sped up this abatement by a decade, state regulator ARB proposed Wednesday.

Upcoming principles to help measure offset quality will not rank "avoidance" over "removal" credits, a conference heard Wednesday, with experts expecting the debate within the voluntary carbon market (VCM) to continue to run. 

Coal producers in Australia have seen a sudden upswing in prices and demand amid an energy crisis. It can’t continue, as China moves to shore up energy independence and cut emissions. Jorrit Gosens, Research Fellow, Australian National University Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Danish EU ETS-covered companies should face a carbon fee of DKK 75/t (around €10) in 2025, rising annually to the equivalent of €50/t over five years, the government proposed on Wednesday.

A narrow majority of the European Parliament’s industry committee (ITRE) on Wednesday voted to curb the role of speculative investors in the EU ETS, teeing up a tough battle among lawmakers that favour less drastic measures.

The oil and gas market shunned buying voluntary carbon credits to offset fossil fuel shipments in Q1 as fuel prices spiked in the lead up to the war in Ukraine, analysts said in a report published on Wednesday.

Distracted and locked in a siege mentality, the prime minister is allowing a perfect economic storm to hit millions of households

Before escaping on an official visit to India on Wednesday, Boris Johnson ensured that headlines were dominated by his spurious attacks on the archbishop of Canterbury and the BBC, rather than his own egregious behaviour during Partygate.

Deflection and bluster are, increasingly, what gets Mr Johnson through the day. This strategy of evasion is usually complemented by an earnest plea that he should be allowed to get on with delivering the priorities of the British people. At Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions, “fixing the energy crisis” was identified as one of the key areas Mr Johnson could focus on, if only people stopped harping on about him flouting the Covid laws he set.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R) administration won’t begin the regulatory process of attempting to rescind the state’s RGGI-linked cap-and-trade programme until the third quarter at the earliest, a government official said Wednesday.

Combined pressures of global heating and farming can halve insect populations in some places - study.

Standard-setting body Verra has proposed changes to tools for estimating emission reductions from its key REDD+ project types that will ensure Verra’s methodologies reflect the latest science and practices while aligning with jurisdictional GHG estimation procedures, Steve Zwick of Verra writes.