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A 5,600-year-old skull fragment discovered by Thames amateur archaeologists goes on display.

The Morrison Government says the project will provide energy security and thousands of jobs but environment groups and local councils say it threatens marine life and tourism.

California offset project developers believe a lack of certainty regarding how credits can show a "direct environmental benefit in the state" (DEBs) in the post-2020 cap-and-trade programme may yield near-term market impacts. 

California-Quebec’s upcoming current vintage auction will sell out within a few cents of the floor price, while the future vintage auction will fail to fully subscribe due to limited interest, traders polled by Carbon Pulse said.

The ACT Government is now joining South Australia in considering a ban on all single-use plastic products, everything from toothbrushes to disposable coffee cups, and even cotton buds.

Trading firm Hartree Partners has parted ways with its head of carbon advisory, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The plan to kill 2 million feral cats nationwide by 2020 makes for good headlines. But it's also a simplistic goal that won't necessarily deliver conservation benefits to native species. Tim Doherty, Research Fellow, Deakin University Dale Nimmo, Associate professor/ARC DECRA fellow, Charles Sturt University Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Ricky Spencer, Associate Professor of Ecology, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices firmed on Tuesday after a decent auction result, but sellers thwarted further gains and traders warned of more downside ahead.

Wallace Broecker, the scientist who helped popularise the term "global warming", has died at the age 87.

South Africa’s parliament on Tuesday approved the country’s long-awaited carbon tax bill, clearing a key hurdle in keeping the measure on track to enter into force this spring.

It is still the final frontier, but space travel has come a little closer to the public at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

The Chinese businesswoman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for operating an ivory-smuggling ring.

A mystery disease that is killing beech trees could cause widespread die-offs unless more is done to halt its spread, warn scientists.

EEX is enhancing the way it reports open interest figures for its EU emissions derivatives markets, the exchange told Carbon Pulse on Tuesday, after some of its members claimed its existing practices yielded misleading data.

Growing meat in the laboratory may damage the climate more in the long run, than meat from cattle.

Yes, the headline is a bit of a tease and quite unthinkable, of course. Or maybe…?

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One of New Zealand’s top emissions trading experts and a member of the government’s interim Climate Change Commission is leaving to take up a position in New York.

New type of electric car technology using combination of battery and hydrogen power could allow a passenger car to travel over 5000km, only stopping to quickly refill battery fluid.

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Tokyo ETS emitters shaved another 100,000 tonnes off their annual CO2 output in FY2017, the metropolitan government announced Tuesday, in a programme where almost 80% of the participants have already met their 2019 targets.

Norway is ready to make its first payment to Indonesia under the two nations’ 2010 agreement to halt deforestation, after the South East Asian nation reported a drop in greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in 2017.