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Scientist behind hybrid carbohydrate praises its ‘pleasant and novel flavour experience’

Bowls of decidedly pink-tinged rice are about to feature on sustainable food menus, according to researchers who created rice grains with beef and cow fat cells grown inside them.

Scientists made the experimental food by covering traditional rice grains in fish gelatin and seeding them with skeletal muscle and fat stem cells which were then grown in the laboratory.

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The UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) on Wednesday opened a consultation looking at the kind of carbon storage information that should be made publicly available and on what timescales, in a move that it says will support project planning and decision-making.

A tool for guiding landowners on how to improve biodiversity on their property has attracted significant interest from potential customers, beyond those involved in the UK biodiversity net gain scheme, an executive has said.

A developer of gas-fired power plants able to capture CO2 from the combustion process says that the premium cost of the facilities will be offset by the sale of CO2 for industrial applications.

Even as the weather emergency was still unfolding, some commentators and politicians couldn’t resist the urge to blame renewable energy

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More than half a million electricity customers were without power in Victoria on Tuesday after storms swept across the state, downing power lines and transmission towers.

But as workers and system managers scrambled to get power back online, some commentators and Coalition MPs were unable to resist the urge to somehow blame renewable energy.

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European carbon prices rallied in Wednesday morning trade as the weekly position data from the two main exchanges showed speculative participants had increased their net short position to a new record, triggering a squeeze on short-positioned participants, while a well-known fund manager said prices could fall as much as 35% below current levels.

Republican Jeff Landry, who has labeled climate change ‘a hoax’, has elevated fossil fuel executives to key environmental posts

In his first four weeks in office, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with executives tied to the oil, gas and coal industries.

Landry, who has labeled climate change “a hoax”, has also taken aim at the state’s climate taskforce for possible elimination as part of a sweeping reorganization of Louisiana’s environmental bureaucracy. The goal, according to Landry’s executive order, is to “create a better prospective business climate”.

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Companies worldwide set a new record in publicly announced solar and wind energy contracts in 2023, driven by improving economics in key regions like Europe and imminent company clean energy goals, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). 

PM2.5 from heating homes using solid fuel such as wood increased by 19% from 2021 to 2022, data shows

A rise in harmful emissions from wood-burning stoves has cancelled out decreases in particulate pollution from road and energy sources in the UK, government data reveals.

Emissions of PM2.5 from domestic combustion – heating homes using solid fuel such as wood – increased by 19% between 2021 and 2022, counteracting efforts made to travel and produce commercial energy in less polluting ways.

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The world’s first climate-focused guarantee company is looking to transform the perception that green investments in the developing world are risky - by encouraging the international private sector to jump in, and helping domestic borrowers secure better financing.

South Korea on Wednesday sold close to two-thirds of the CO2 allowances up for sale at its monthly auction, which cleared below the secondary market but up compared to last month’s sale.

Indonesia’s uptake of renewable energy is too slow and the country is unlikely to meet its own targets, according to a report from a think tank released Wednesday.

It may be bigger than a large city - but the world's biggest iceberg can still turn on a sixpence.

Voluntary carbon certification body Gold Standard has opened a consultation on a methodology for crediting on-site waste processing to avoid methane emissions caused by organic matter being sent to landfills.

A Switzerland-based carbon removal developer has entered into an offtake agreement to provide Microsoft with 27,600 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) over the course of six years.

India’s largest carbon offset developer has inaugurated the first of several planned biomass fuel plants in the country to promote clean energy and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, it announced Wednesday.

Australia would be a “banana republic” if it bowed to international pressure from its trading partners over its climate policies, such as the Safeguard Mechanism, Professor Ross Garnaut has told Carbon Pulse.

A Japanese petroleum supplier is offering its corporate clients to buy carbon credits to offset their petrol and diesel oil.

It is hoped the creation of a marshland site will be a "corridor" for wildlife including wading birds.

On an oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere, our writer encounters the only albatross species endemic to Australia

As one seabird enthusiast once proclaimed: “Real birds eat fish.” That was certainly true of the species I was hoping to encounter on my first oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere.

A dozen of us boarded the first Sydney Pelagics trip of the year, chugging out of the famous harbour early one January morning. We soon left the silver gulls and crested terns behind, before coming across the first of a quintet of shearwaters: wedge-tailed, short-tailed, flesh-footed, Hutton’s and a single streaked, a scarce visitor from Japan.

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