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The US state of Minnesota is in the early stages of researching a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) to help reduce emissions from the transportation sector, a state official said Thursday at a UN COP25 side event.

Turbidity levels in the Tenterfield dam have been measured at 60 times the World Health Organisation’s limits

For 72 days, but who is counting, residents of the New South Wales town of Tenterfield have been told to boil their drinking water.

Straight from the tap it reeks of bushfire smoke and heavy doses of chlorine. The community’s filtration system, built in 1932, cannot cope effectively with turbidity levels in the Tenterfield dam that have recently been measured at 60 times the World Health Organisation’s limits. The town’s swimming pool has been closed indefinitely through weeks of extreme heat.

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Scientists calculate the lifespans of long-lost species, including ancient human relatives.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) collaborative will release potential ETS cap levels and allowance price expectations as part of the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will be published next week, a US state official said at the UN climate summit Thursday.

The vast majority of Australian businesses polled in a survey want access to international emissions markets, but worry about the risk of other nations slapping border carbon adjustments on Australian goods over the government’s lack of climate action.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose slightly on the secondary market as participants looked to push positions further out on the curve, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices dipped following the release of the Q4 auction results.

Denman Glacier reaches down to more than 3,500m below sea level. Only ocean trenches go deeper.

The New Jersey legislature will discuss two proposals next week that would cement the state’s participation in the Northeast RGGI ETS, potentially putting safeguards in place if Republicans regain the governorship.

Botanist, environmentalist and broadcaster who communicated his love for the natural world to millions of viewers and listeners

The botanist David Bellamy, who has died aged 86, fired the imagination of millions of television viewers with the beauty and complexity of the natural world – and our impact upon it. For a generation, his instantly recognisable facial features, surrounded by white hair and matching beard, became synonymous with energetic, vibrant and thoroughly compelling explanations of how our world works. His enthusiasm for his subject, delivered in a style and voice that were as distinctive as his face, held viewers enthralled.

The warmth and honesty with which he delivered his subject brought environmental issues to life. Shows such as Bellamy on Botany (1973), Bellamy’s Britain (1975) and Bellamy’s Backyard Safari (1981) allowed him to develop his trademark attention-grabbing methods, such as surfacing from a pond or river, head covered in foliage, as he explained deposition of silt, say, or the process of photosynthesis. Such eccentricity made him a natural target for imitation, notably by Lenny Henry, which he took in good humour and even appeared to relish, appearing on his TV show, as well as many children’s programmes and chat shows.

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Humans usually take minutes to learn how to find diamonds in the game, but AI agents struggled.

Researchers say the rock star did not introduce the non-native species in Carnaby Street in the 60s.

The Tesla Cybertruck beats other utility trucks such as the Ford F-150 on value and could maintain its value far beyond competitors, new analysis suggests.

The post Why the Cybertruck “far surpasses” other utes, and will maintain its value appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Greenpeace activists unfurl climate emergency banner on Brussels venue before event

European leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels will make a new attempt to set the European Union on course for carbon neutrality by 2050, in a test of the bloc’s credibility on the climate emergency.

Hours before EU leaders were due to arrive on Thursday, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner on the side of the summit venue warning of the climate emergency.

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The fires are putting pressure on the government by elevating the climate issue and opening new division among Liberals. Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Melting sea ice is prompting fevered dreams of ever-easier access, and a renewed jockeying among Arctic nations for status, profit and ownership

I could not keep my eyes off the graves, could not stop staring at them even as I walked away, turning repeatedly to look over my shoulder at them as I slogged my way across the gravel-strewn shore of Beechey Island until they disappeared from view.

It was profoundly saddening to contemplate their presence on a low-lying, windswept outpost of the Canadian Arctic, to imagine the fear and loneliness those buried here must have felt as they faced death in the harshest of conditions, thousands of miles and a world removed from their homes. And yet, they were the lucky ones, the first casualties of an expedition that vanished 173 years ago while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage between Atlantic and Pacific, whose remaining members met their doom after their ships became frozen in never-yielding sea ice, who perished one by one waiting for a summer that never came.

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Mike Cannon-Brookes says first Zoox "robot cars" should be on the road within two years, and may re-define our thinking about road transport.

The post Cannon-Brookes says Zoox “robot” cars will be on the road within two years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.

Reducing meat and dairy consumption will cut methane and allow forests to thrive

Livestock production needs to reach its peak within the next decade in order to tackle the climate emergency, scientists have warned.

They are calling for governments in all but the poorest countries to set a date for “peak meat” because animal agriculture is a significant and fast-growing source of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Experts say the art, found in an Indonesian cave, could be the world's oldest recorded story.

IEEFA report finds that with “modest” suite of EV incentives, the payback for rooftop, a home battery and an electric vehicle falls to just five years today, and zero by 2030.

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