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Zoos Victoria is training sniffer dogs to detect live platypus in their burrows as part of a research project to determine how the monotremes look after their young.

“One of the challenges with studying the platypus and why we still know very little about them is we as humans are not well designed to see them in their natural environment,” says Healesville Sanctuary platypus keeper Dr Jessica Thomas. “They are a little brown animal and they live in a brown habitat and they spend most of their time either swimming underwater or asleep underground in a burrow. And they’re nocturnal. Quite often they either may be there or they may not be there but you can’t see them."

The training methods are similar to those used on drug detection dogs, with two important differences: wildlife detection dogs need to be able to work in challenging and distracting environments, like a mountain stream, and they need to be safe and non-threatening toward any wildlife they encounter

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CEFC launches $300 million fund to boost the use of timber in large-scale construction to cut embodied emissions.

The post CEFC eyes cuts in construction emissions through $300m boost for timber buildings appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW overwhelmed with massive response from wind, solar and storage projects for new renewable zone, taking total offerings to nearly 100GW.

The post NSW swamped by 34GW of wind, solar and storage for new renewable zone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices bounced back from a 1.5-month low this week as traders pointed to EU carbon prices and options activity as drivers, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) values inched higher after the release of Q4 emissions data that some traders found bullish.

The lead strategist of Pacific Investment Management Company’s (PIMCO) commodity and carbon business has joined a new US environmental asset management firm that will initially focus on California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) before exploring other markets.

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Hydrogen can be made from fossil fuels or from renewable energy and water using an electrolyser producing zero carbon emissions. We must tell the difference.

The post Not all hydrogen is the same: If it’s not green, it’s probably greenwash appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An EU lawmaker has called for border safeguards on oil and gas imports to help ensure the bloc's industry remains competitive as new methane-curbing regulations take effect, a conference heard on Thursday.

Two conservation organisations have teamed up to create a new methodology that they say will help quell some of the criticism related to forest offset projects by establishing dynamic baselines upon which additional carbon outcomes are measured.

It may not be extinct, but our research suggests the buff-breasted button-quail may only be hanging on by a thread, at best. Patrick Webster, PhD candidate, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Some trees explode into bits when lightning strikes. Some seem fine and die later. But others are unaffected. Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Two emissions traders have left Citibank’s London office, including one veteran of the European market, sources told Carbon Pulse this week, continuing the recent trend of moves as interest in carbon markets ramps up around the world.

Nasa says the ISS will operate until 2030 before the agency hands over to commercial companies.

Sweden-based utility Vattenfall reported an 18% drop in its ETS-covered thermal generation for 2021, it said in results on Thursday, far outpacing a slight decline in overall output and bucking a wider trend of increased power emissions across the bloc.

A veteran EU emissions trader has joined commodities merchant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), teaming up with his former boss to help advance the firm's new carbon offering.

Hen was found running loose near the US Department of Defense headquarters on the outskirts of Washington DC

Why did the chicken cross the road? To break into the Pentagon, apparently. Or is it now the Hentagon – and is America about to have a new peck-retary of defense?

A wandering chicken was caught sneaking around a security area at the Pentagon this week, a local animal welfare organization said.

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EUAs extended recent gains on Thursday morning, reaching a new record just below €95 before dropping into the red amid mixed power and prompt gas prices.

Poland breached EU law by extending the life of its Turow lignite mine without assessing the environmental impacts, an adviser to Europe's highest court said on Thursday, siding with Czechia in a case that has put at risk Warsaw’s access to EU clean energy funding.

The bones, including those of a woolly rhinoceros and wolf, were found on a housing development.

Environment minister tells world heritage centre that government investments are ‘strengthening the resilience of the reef’

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A Morrison government report to the United Nations on the status of the Great Barrier Reef claims its approach to tackling climate change is among the best in the world and its management of the reef was “second to none”.

But conservationists and scientists immediately hit back at the claim, saying the reef needed more protection and the government’s record in cutting emissions and cutting pollution over it was inadequate.

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