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The X-Press Pearl, off Sri Lanka, could be a threat to marine life and the fishing industry.

Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) traded at A$19 ($14.69) in the spot market for the first time on Thursday as future compliance risk is supporting demand for the domestic units despite access to much cheaper international options.

Sweden's NorthVolt raises another $3.6 billion to boost production of "world's greenest battery", as VW and Goldman Sachs chip in.

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Energy industry lining up against Angus Taylor's favoured "capacity markets" put forward as an option by Energy Security Board. Even Snowy Hydro is opposed.

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New Zealand's climate history and its climate targets are a mixed bag at best, but they are miles ahead of Australia's coal obsession.

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Glenrowan West solar farm in Victoria completed and declared fully operational, complete with "sizeable" flock of sheep.

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A large swathe of the Northern Hemisphere is about to enjoy a so-called annular solar eclipse.

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Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the brakes on dengue fever, trial finds.

Exclusive: excessive feeding as visitors flocked to London’s green spaces has led to overcrowding, disease and pollution

London’s royal parks are urging visitors to stop feeding bread to ducks because it is causing overcrowding and bullying among birds, the Guardian can reveal.

A campaign launching today highlights how excessive feeding upsets fragile ecosystems, leading to large groups of aggressive gulls and crows that steal the eggs and chicks of other birds. Leftover food also attracts rats, and soggy bread and waterfowl faeces contaminate the water.

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TC Energy halts project that faced longstanding opposition from climate campaigners

A $9bn oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate advocates and a flashpoint in US-Canada relations was officially canceled on Wednesday.

Keystone XL, which was proposed in 2008 to bring oil from Canada’s western tar sands to US refiners, was halted by owner TC Energy after Joe Biden this year revoked a key permit needed for a US stretch of the 1,200-mile project.

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New York is seeing rising generation from carbon-emitting sources amid an uptick in electricity demand, with the trend coming as RGGI emitters ramped up allowance purchases at last week’s quarterly auction, data shows.

California compliance offset generation maintained a recent sluggish trend this week, while Quebec saw its credit issuances surpass the 1-million mark for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday.

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Researchers say species exposed for long periods to light pollution near the shore were less likely to survive than those living farther away

Young clownfish on coastal reefs are dying faster as a result of exposure to artificial light at night, according to new research.

An international team of scientists studying reefs on Moorea, a tiny island of French Polynesia, have found that orange-fin anemonefish – a species of clownfish – exposed for long periods to human-generated artificial light were 36% less likely to survive than clownfish living in reefs farther from the coast.

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A memorandum of understanding is signed by Spaceport Cornwall and a US firm to explore opportunities.

The European Commission is joining a lawsuit filed at Europe's highest court by Czechia against Poland over an open-pit lignite mine near the two countries' border.

EU carbon prices rose more than €2 on Wednesday to top €54 for the first time in two weeks, as bullish technicals, a strong auction, and a supportive energy complex helped push prices back towards record levels.

The European Commission will create a ‘climate action social fund’ with revenues from an expanded carbon market if it decides to bring emissions from vehicles and buildings to the EU ETS, the bloc’s climate chief Frans Timmermans said on Wednesday.

Energy experts say the cost of proposed Kurri Kurri gas plant could exceed $1b, while the potential benefits have been overblown.

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