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A Japanese trading house has teamed up with a Nordic biomaterial solution provider for the sustainable utilisation of woody biomass, targeting emissions reductions from use of forest resources in Indonesia, it announced Friday.

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Deaths due to wood-burning stoves are comparable to those of ‘black summer’ bushfires, says Australian study

Scientists are starting to count the health cost of heating our homes with wood. One study, in Canberra in Australia, has found that deaths from everyday exposure to smoke from wood burners is comparable with those during the unprecedented “black summer” bushfires of 2019/2020.

Prof Sotiris Vardoulakis, part of the research team and director of the Healthy Environments and Lives (Heal) National Research Network, described winter in the city: “When I take my two boys to play basketball outdoors in winter, or when we walk the dog before dinner, there is always a smell of wood smoke in the air.”

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People encouraged to record sightings of mohican-sporting birds in RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend

The scale of this waxwing winter will be revealed this weekend when people are encouraged to spend an hour recording the birds they see in their gardens, balconies, parks and school grounds.

The spectacular migratory, mohican-sporting birds have been spotted across Britain during the colder weather and will be recorded alongside more familiar sparrows, blackbirds and robins in the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch.

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The lag between project inception and receipt of financing in the world’s first internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs) - transacted in January from Thailand to Switzerland - is raising questions about the financial additionality of these credits traded under the Paris Agreement's Article 6.2, experts have told Carbon Pulse.

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Greenfinches, sparrows and starlings have declined the most but other species including goldfinches are thriving.

Atmos and Nomad plan 100 MW, four hour (400 MWh) battery in the wheat-belt area of Western Australia.

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Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) prices took a nosedive following verification of a ballot initiative aimed at repealing the state's Climate Commitment Act, while California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices once again briefly broke to new all-time highs earlier in the week.

Members of the Washington House Environment and Energy Committee advanced a bill intended to facilitate linkage between the state's young cap-and-invest programme and the California-Quebec carbon market on Thursday, while also hearing testimony and debating issues around a proposal to study the inclusion of speculators in allowance auctions.

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Hermit crabs all over the world are using our discarded plastic and other waste in place of their natural shells.

The first vehicle to achieve powered flight on another planet suffers rotor damage three years into tour.

Analysts at a major ratings agency have cut their outlook for EU carbon prices, following other experts in tempering their expectations amid a confluence of bearish factors but differing in their anticipation of a full recovery later this year.

If a colony of flying foxes sets up in your backyard, you might be annoyed – or concerned. But these gentle bats are vital to our forests. Noel D. Preece, Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday the disbursement of awards to 49 projects nationwide geared to reduce industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as additional available funding opportunities to tackle decarbonisation challenges in hard-to-abate industries.

Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels

Toxic emissions from the Canadian tar sands – already one of the dirtiest fossil fuels – have been dramatically underestimated, according to a study.

Research published in the journal Science found that air pollution from the vast Athabasca oil sands in Canada exceed industry-reported emissions across the studied facilities by a staggering 1,900% to over 6,300%.

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Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah opens claim against environment, health and transport departments in pursuit of ‘right to clean air’

The mother of a nine-year-old girl who became the first person in the UK to have air pollution cited on their death certificate has launched a high court claim against the government.

Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is suing three government departments for compensation for personal injury arising from the illness and premature death of her daughter Ella. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Transport and the Department of Health and Social Care have all been named as defendants in the claim.

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While Canada’s greenhouse gas inventory demonstrates the forestry sector as roughly carbon neutral, academics and environmental non-profits called attention to methodologies that instead deem the sector as generating more emissions than electricity and agriculture, accounting for more than 10% of the country’s annual emissions, in a series of reports published in January.

Hunting by Kenyan lions impeded in ‘ecological chain reaction’ as big-headed ants fail to stop elephants stripping acacia trees – the cats’ ambush cover

When a lion decides to chase down a zebra it seems as though nothing can stop it. But now researchers have discovered these enormous predators are being thwarted by a tiny foe: ants.

Scientists have found the spread of big-headed ants in east Africa sets off a situation leading to lions making fewer zebra kills.

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