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The Australian government’s proposed nature law reforms still include loopholes that would allow mass deforestation and must be closed, a coalition of environmental groups warned Thursday.

"If we're going to use them, we should make them." Queensland Labor unveils five-year, $571 million Battery Industry Strategy.

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The best strategy to protecting Earth’s coral reefs is to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. But in the meantime, we must urgently make corals more resilient. Kate Marie Quigley, DECRA Research Fellow (James Cook University), Principal Research Scientist (Minderoo Foundation), James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists deduce how whales sing under the sea, and why they can be drowned out by noisy ships.

Scientists deduce how whales sing under the sea, and why they can be drowned out by noisy ships.

Scientists want to use the robot plane to reach inaccessible areas to understand climate change.

With Eraring set to close, the NSW Government has an "obvious" solution to deliver lower cost electricity and higher reliability.

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A Democratic delegate in Maryland's lower house introduced legislation earlier this month that would establish a cap-and-invest programme in the RGGI-participating state.

A Senate bill that looks to tighten regulations on the issuance and sale of carbon offsets, which was vetoed last year, has resurfaced in the California legislature.

The UK is quitting the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), following a growing number of EU countries that have left the agreement after years of protracted negotiations failed to reform it to support the transition to net zero emissions, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) announced Thursday.

Carbon intensity of the country’s economy remains high, despite rapid improvements in clean energy output

China is off track on all of its core 2025 climate targets, despite the fact that clean energy is now the biggest driver of the country’s economic growth, analysis has found.

After years of extraordinarily rapid growth, China is now grappling with a slowdown that is causing ripples internally and internationally. The government has supercharged the growth of the renewable energy industry but it has imultaneously poured stimulus funds into construction and manufacturing, and continues to approve coal power.

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China needs to cut emissions by at least 4% to meet its carbon intensity targets, given an increase in last year's CO2 output due to continued demand for coal-fired power, a report has found.

Artificial intelligence software is being used to look for signs of alien lifeforms.

The NZU price dropped NZ$2.65 on Wednesday, amid mass selling that market participants blamed on an overall weakness in the market.

Even small amount of exposure to minute soot particles – known as PM2.5 – raises the risk of cardiovascular disease

The sooty air pollution spewed out by cars, trucks and factories is causing widespread harm to people’s hearts and lungs even with the smallest amounts of exposure, with government regulations still routinely allowing for dangerous risks to public health, two major new studies have found.

There is no safe amount of a microscopic form of airborne pollution known as PM2.5, consisting of tiny particles of soot measuring less than the width of a human hair, for heart and lung health, US researchers found, with even small amounts raising the risk of potentially serious problems.

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Forestry asset manager New Forests on Thursday announced it had made its first investment from its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2) by establishing a peatland conservation and restoration project in Thailand that could generate around 500,000 carbon credits per year.

People in areas of high PM2.5 concentrations had higher amounts of amyloid plaques in brain

Air pollution from traffic is linked to some of the more severe forms of dementia, and could be a significant cause of the condition among those who are not already genetically predisposed to it, research suggests.

Research carried out in Atlanta, Georgia, found that people with higher exposure to traffic-related fine particulate matter air pollution were more likely to have high amounts of the amyloid plaques in their brains that are associated with Alzheimer’s.

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Numerous obstacles persist on the way to a green recovery across the EU, according to the European Commission’s mid-term evaluation of the financial tools put in place after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hydrogen electrolyser manufacturers are staring into the valley of death, as the hype-fuelled valuations of 2021 come crashing down around their years. Some are still optimistic.

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The veteran ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft dives to destruction 2,000km west of California.