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The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) of Australia’s Northern Territory has released draft guidance that expects large, polluting projects to include more rigorous detail on how they will cut their emissions, including greenhouse gas data for scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, as well as potential offset conditions.

Aquatic mammals can recognise friends and family members without seeing or hearing them

Dolphins are able to recognise one another by the taste of their urine, a study has found.

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered that the mammals can recognise friends and family members without seeing or hearing them.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has issued over 600,000 new Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), according to its latest update on Thursday, as Woodside got the nod from shareholders to become the nation’s largest oil and gas player through its merger with BHP's petroleum business.

Cities in the UK and around the world are installing new bike lanes to help reduce emissions, but some claim they are making traffic worse. The argument goes that bike lanes means less space for cars and therefore more congestion. While this might sound plausible, it appears to hark back to outdated traffic management theory. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how traffic really works, and the actual impact of installing new bike lanes

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G7 economies are well placed to be the first movers to reduce emissions from heavy industry, in turn setting out a path for the rest of the world to decarbonise the emissions-intensive sector, a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released on Thursday has said.

About 50 schemes are thought to be in pipeline between now and 2025 despite climate pledges

Several major UK fossil fuel projects have been approved since Cop26 concluded, an analysis has found, while about 50 schemes are thought to be in the pipeline between now and 2025.

Three separate schemes have received some form of approval from government bodies during the six-month period since Boris Johnson’s administration hosted the UN climate summit in Glasgow. Campaigners say his government is reaching a crunch point, with three major onshore schemes currently being appealed and the levelling up minister, Michael Gove, set to rule on a number of such applications over the next six weeks.

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Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar?

For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.

While financial collapse would have been devastating to human welfare, food system collapse doesn’t bear thinking about. Yet the evidence that something is going badly wrong has been escalating rapidly. The current surge in food prices looks like the latest sign of systemic instability.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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The Evidence Project is a photography-led campaign created by Britta Jaschinski, Keith Wilson and Arturo de Frías focusing on the impact of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the causes of viral pandemics. These images by many of the world’s leading photographers are their evidential proof to provoke governments, businesses, opinion leaders and consumers to initiate the changes required for a safe and sustainable future for all life on Earth. Central to this campaign is the production of a new crowdfunded book, which the creators expect to publish later this year

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Most people try their best to avoid snakes. This snake photographer couple spends their free time searching for them. Chris Hay, Honorary Fellow, The University of Queensland Christina N. Zdenek, Lab Manager/Post-doc at the Venom Evolution Lab, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Environmental organisations partner to create 15,000-acre protected wetland from Glastonbury to Bridgwater Bay

At this time of year the booming call of the bitterns resonates across the Avalon Marshes in Somerset while hawks skim over the reed beds and great white egrets nest in the shallows. The pools and ditches are alive with rare reptiles, mammals, insects and spiders.

Plans to improve the habitat for flora and fauna that live in one of the UK’s most extraordinary landscapes by creating a “super nature reserve” stretching from these marshes around Glastonbury to the edge of Bridgwater Bay were announced on Thursday.

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Plan for 240MW/480MWh stand-alone big battery project on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula gains grid connection assessment approval.

The post Maoneng gets grid approval for Victoria’s newest “biggest battery” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, European Commission unveils massive scaling-up and speeding-up of renewable energy, with solar as the "kingpin."

The post EU hits fast forward on renewables, including “massive deployment” of solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Danish renewables giant partners with ARK Nature to explore “rewilding” opportunities in the North Sea to restore ocean biodiversity.

The post Offshore wind giant to use turbine foundations to “rewild” North Sea appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UN chief says fossil fuel subsidies are a scandal as latest WMO report paints grim picture on climate change.

The post “Fossil fuels are a dead end:” UN chief says coal, oil and gas subsidies a “scandal” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Australian EV start-up founded by a former driver that is rolling out battery swap technology to turn big trucks electric.

The post The Driven Podcast: It’s time to catch up, Elon appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Greens leader Adam Bandt says party will pressure the next government to set a hard deadline for an Australian phase out of coal.

The post Greens to push for 2030 deadline to phase out coal power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Scott Morrison’s loving embrace and financial backing of the gas industry has been a defining feature of his prime ministership.

Hit with a historical pandemic, Morrison chose gas – not renewables – to fire an economic recovery.

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Climate change has figured little in the 2022 federal election campaign. But the need for sensible, long-term measures is now dire.

The post A new climate politics: The 47th parliament must be a contest of ideas for a hotter, low-carbon Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Associate, Food and Forests position will support Ceres' efforts to drive company and investor action on deforestation and land conversion, greenhouse gas emissions from food systems, and natural climate solutions.